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Some cool energy in this but I wasn't really blown away by it. There's a lot going on at times and I think they don't often nail the blend that they are going for. It feels like they had a bunch of people in the room and each one wanted something different and kind of fought for more volume in their idea. Not a bad listen, but I don't know if it's an album that you have to hear in your lifetime.
kommer nok ikke til at lytte til foreløbigt.
After the whimsical dance party that was our visit to Galantis, it feels a bit shitty to diss Coldcut for its genre trappings, but I wasn't drawn into this at all. Too much flash and hits and breaks and the lyrics were, well, they weren't great. I guess I just didn't really like this.
Unable to listen to this via my usual streaming service, so I skimmed through it on YouTube. Not fair to the group or the album, but it was all I had time for. Seems fun enough. I might have enjoyed it if I liked fun.
meh
Nah, I didn't enjoy this. So dated.
Too long - some neat songs and lots of interesting samples - but wouldn't come back to it.
could not access
This was a tough listen.. I enjoyed the sounds but it blended together and I kept thinking I had already heard parts when they hadn’t looped back - maybe this was because YouTube kept interrupting my listen with ads, as well as I was working and distracted while listening. Unfortunately, the accessibility as well as the repetitive nature of the mix hurt the rating..
No.
Not shocking
One star per decent song.
Couldn't really get into this
My Telephone is such a weird song. What were they even doing with their phones back then, there was no chatgpt on them
I didn't really enjoy this, but I can appreciate that it's well-made. The production is very good, the music is just not my cup of tea. Two stars because I'm capable of understanding that something wasn't for me and moving on with my life, rather than giving it one star and complaining that it isn't real music, unlike a lot of users here.
First, trying to find where to listen to this was a challenge. I found it on Youtube (Not YTMusic). I normally like electronic music, but this was more of a repeated, disorganized cacophony. I'm not in the right headspace today for this type of music, perhaps I'll try it again
Итс окэй. Много филлера. Лучшая песня - Doctorin' The House (feat. Yazz) [Say R Mix].
2/5. Wasn't able to find the album as a whole but found most of the songs on a greatest hits album. And if these were the greatest hits, don't think I'd enjoy the other songs on the album. It's similar to electronic music, with simple and repetitive vocals, but the samples are not fun enough to be interesting. It's not necessarily bad but I don't think I'm going to listen to it again. Best Song: People Hold On, My Telephone, Doctorin' The House
pretty chaotic but probably a monumental feat for cutting/editing music in the 80s/90s when that tech was really new. Not bad to listen to but just feels kinda dated. 2/5
it's okey if you like electronic music. totally get why people don't like this. Personally it's okey, nothing ground breaking for me. Heard better 90s Trip hop / House. Probably revolutionary for it's time but nothing special for me
Litt for eksperimentelt for meg
The sort of proto-avalanche sound collages were better than the more straightforward beats. This was overall fine as background music but felt like a waste of time.
I was hoping this would be more of a sample heavy hip-hop record and less the dance record that it turned out to be.
A very long hour of repetitive 80s drum loops and goofy sound effects
First, since this isn’t streamable I had to hunt it down on YouTube. Second, once I started listening my mind drifted off to some generic 90’s dance dreamscape. The music was neither great nor terrible, but I did not engage. And I sort of listened to several YouTube ads thinking it was part of a song.
Couldn’t find the album in full. What I heard was okay.
Absolute rubbish. I did like the Tarzan part, though. That was interesting. Otherwise, yeah, rubbish. 2/5
This album's title makes me think of Hank Hill criticizing his son for listening to trash. In that scenario, I'm Hank Hill, and this shit is kind of insufferable. I'm not saying late 80's British House music is unimportant, but I am saying that although I know almost nothing about it, I can promise you there are better, more important examples of it than this.
This was probably really cool and revolutionary at the time but now it just sounds like noise. 1.9/5
I’m CERTAIN that the first track influenced the Japanese soundtrack for Sonic CD, which is cool. The rest of the album is mid, and I really disliked that it was only on YouTube.
Has no business being on this list
Nope
Generic house
Music for people who never grew out of the childhood phase where you walk around making random noises until the adults can no longer take it. I get how these techniques are applied to back a hip hop track, where typically the vocals are the meat and potatoes of the music, but when you use them just to back corny vocals that say nothing of value on songs like My Telephone they really are just a bunch of repetitive noises.
Gotta give it to them on creativity and the mixing/production of this one. They did miss the mark on making good songs that I want to listen to though.
Pretty generic electronic with way too many random noises. Got really boring halfway through and an hour was too much of this. Would really like to see some more modern electronic on here rather than all 90s like we have been getting. Or where are the rest of the Daft Punk albums?
I guess you can call that music.
I feel like a lot of the albums that I have to retrieve on youtube already gives me suspicion, and this was confirmed a little for me. I tried reading some of the comments trying to understand what was good and I didn’t really get it..,
Dance music specifically made for ... dancing. Neither are really my thing. Early cut and paste music that has essentially no flow or purpose other than dancing. Which is totally fine, but I'm not sure why anyone would actually buy or play this at home. Only thing that saved me from punching in a very annoyed "1" for this is Queen Latifah. 3/10 2 stars.
Tediously long. There are some fun tracks but it honestly gets tiresome to try to finish in one setting.
Pretty good. Difficult to find. Too long, like most electronic albums on here. 2/5 will forget again.
Ok I guess, maar werd een beetje saai.
A time capsule that I am sure to never revisit in my life
It was an enjoyable listen but nothing outstanding. Also annoying it is not on apple music lol 2/5
Sounds for 1980s DJs and producers. With a few songs mixed in that you would hear at the 7th grade dance or roller rink.
Pretty standard EDM album. Gets an extra star for being a bit off the wall and fun.
What is that noise? I didn't care for the one I heard that much or particularly want to hear it again, aside from the first track, which was a banger. It was a very long and boring noise as well, clocking in at 50 minutes or so
1989. Alternative Hip Hop. 6/10
Kind of an eclectic mix of sounds, familiar songs, chants, and such. Wasn't terrible. Kind of long and a bit much, especially with the Tarzan cry.
Cannot be bothered
This feels as though it was an album purely made to later on be a milestone in which we would look back on and go "Wow, electronica has come so far!" as this is extremely dated. There's good ideas, with some decent samples that generally felt tonally justified, they aren't just thrown in all willy nilly, but the actual turntable efforts are boring, and would make my eyes roll were they a part of a greater album, such as a hip-hop album from the same era. It isn't necessarily bad, but will I remember this tomorrow? No, probably not.
Well it wasn’t the nightmareish piano house album I initially feared - it’s a more eclectic mish-mash of beats and samples with an irreverent spirit, and surely an influence on The Avalanches. Stop This Crazy Thing is good fun. Once the novelty of those quirks wears off, though, you're still left with a slightly annoying, repetitive dance record.
3/10 - very strange and not fun to listen to. The first song I kind of enjoyed but it just got worse
not on spotify and the only version on youtube is some middle aged with the thickest British accent known to man recording the vinyl record on his iphone 3 while yapping about the album throughout the entire 50 minutes (music was pretty bad anyways)
It's an alright album but a bit up and down. Lisa Stanfield's vocals are pretty rubbish. The Mark E Smith track (it is him right?) and theme from reportage were good. Better when it's more hiphop than dance in my view. Some good extra tracks on the extended version (like that great mix of paid in full) but i didn't count them as they weren't part of the original release.
I agree what is that noise and why is this on the list. It is way too long and there are plenty of better albums out there. It was no offensive, but also not something I’ll listen to again.
This wasn't wildly unpleasant to listen to but it was way too long, way to all over the place, and British.
overly sampled electronic music that goes on too long & too repetitive.
The rhymic parts with less electronic parts are okay.
I like the album cover and the dumb earworm from 'Stop This Crazy Thing'. Didn't like the vacuous peace/love chatter. I can't remember much else about it now; I listened to this for like an hour, but it didn't stick with me.
on the one hand, this is infinitely less annoying and repetitive than its ilk; on the other hand, we may be looking at patient zero for electro swing, which is basically unforgivable
Ok for 1989 I can understand why maybe this was new/different/interesting but come on, this is just too much.
maybe this was better at the time.
Might be perfectly fine late 80s/early 90s dance music, but I was just not in the mood.
This really hasn’t aged well. And yes it does go on for far too long. I don’t find it particularly joyous or uplifting either which is surely crucial for this genre. Loving a bit of unexpected Mark E Smith though
Bien
very strange, typical 80's sound overall. Probably won't listen to it again.
Not the worst thing I’ve ever heard but just ok
Not my style.
Generic 90s dance music. - Yuk. 1.5/5
Since this albums isn't on Spotify I listened to it on Youtube which had the full album available. Its a good album with nice electronic songs that has a different vibe to most of them yet the album still feels cohesive. I had a fun time listening through it but I don't think I will come back to it again. There is better music out there that I would pick before this to listen to.
Not my favorite! Not bad.
Not for me. Just noisy. In case anyone can not find it on Spotify, go to YouTube, the whole album is on there
Had a good start and thought some of the tracks are a bit before their time. It fell off for me towards the end. It's good background music for a chilled party though, other than that not too much to say.
This is literally menu music for an early 90s skateboarding game
A dance album made up of an uninteresting blend of sounds that seemingly were assembled at random.
2.4 Aged poorly. Very tiring towards the end, after over 7 minutes of trying to get through 'Not Paid Enough' I was knackered, Beats & Pieces the final straw. At first I thought it wasn't a bad time capsule into late 80s/early 90s sampling. But sadly it just dragged on and on, at which point it's outdated flaws become more and more obvious.
This was annoying.
This was probably a lot more interesting when it first came out. Now it sounds incredibly dated.
Skräyksen ja puhesämplejen ilo on löydetty eikä jarrutella. Parhaat melodiatkin oli lainattuja… Ihan iloinen paketti kuitenkin.
Levynä epätasainen (raitojen biisiysprosentti vaihtelee), mutta huomasin liikehtiväni mukana. Discot ja vika kappale hyviä.
90s house that was alright
What’s That Noise is about right. I found three tracks on YouTube as it’s not on Spotify, and that was enough. There’s a reason this isn’t widely available …
Fav: People Hold On Least Fav: Smoke Dis One There’s elements of some of the songs that suggest that they can cook, but it’s just ruined by repetition and some questionable sample choices. Quite frustrating, especially considering how good the first song is
What's that noise? Turn it off.
I see how people like this but I sort of don’t and that’s okay too. 2.5 but rounded down to 2.
Put this on then realised I’d already listened to it and forgot to rate it
Considering I like some cold cut found this dated af 2.7
Another early electronic album that just repeats and samples a bunch of sounds. There were moments here and there where I thought I might get into this album, but it pretty much turned out to be isolated incidents each and every time.
Not available to listen to on Spotify but based on the description it's not something I would like anyway.
Difficult to find, but I finally managed to hunt down the US Release and then listened to the tracks that were missing to finish the job. It wasn't really worth all that bother to be honest. There were a few okay tracks, but I honestly knew them better from remixes that were superior. The rest of the album was just a mess. Two stars feels generous.
This is better than some of the English DJ stuff that’s come up so far, but only because it has lots of samples of music that isn’t by English DJs. Still not great!!!!
Very dated. Very 80s. You know it’s 80s electronica when the Tarzan sound appears numerous times. Annoying.
Fuuuuuuck this 80s club shit. Ok, there's some stuff here that I can appreciate but did I really need to listen to this?
Made me want to listen to other, better, artists who did all the heavy lifting.
OK at times but not an album I would reach for again
This started out okay, but took a sharp dive pretty early on. I'm also not sure why these British beat tapes from the 80's insisted on being so long.
Fiilikset vaihteli laidasta laitaan levyn aikana. Oliskohan yksi aidosti hyvä biisi joukossa ja muuten sellasta ja tällaista.
This went way too long and the Tarzan yelling was distracting as hell. There's an album in here I like more than a two but it needs to be edited to that. Fun at times.
Too much electronic on here
Not sure why a album full of other people's work is considered to be necessary. It had moments, but overall it was not that enjoyable.
Not on spot Gave it a go on YT Not interested lad x
Started off strong with "People Hold On" and progressively got more electronic and boring.
part of the reason i love this project is listening to albums i ordinarily would never have. a lot of the electronic music i've run into is just that. i always go into them with an open mind, even though it's not my favorite type of music. i'm still waiting to find the album that will sway me. this was not that album. i actually enjoyed the first track, but the rest of the album did nothing for me at best, and at worst, was monotonous and annoying. i appreciate cool sampling and there were some neat samples here, but none that i felt were used in a mindblowing way. really just wasn't for me, unfortunately.
Electronic music that sounded like the intro to a porno. Stand-out: People Hold On
What was that noise?
Not bad. Overly long songs. For anyone wondering why this album is on this list, I had to read the artist's Wikipedia page to understand a bit more because the album's article was pretty sparse 2.75
Coldcut (o Acid Ant, Bogus Order, Euphoreal, Floormaster Squeeze, Gideon, God & The Prophets, Matt Black & The Coldcut Crew, Sweet Tooth Sonny Switzch...) han sido uno de los faros de la música dance británica. Ya fuera con Yazz (a quien produjeron el inolvidable The Only Way is Up), Lisa Stansdfield (a quien produjeron el éxito masivo All Around the World y su disco entero) o remezclando a Erik B & Rakim en esa gema que es Paid in full (Seven Minutes of Madness) sus temas y producciones son sinónimo de calidad. Este album de debut (ya eran bien conocidos por sus exitos publicados años antes) contiene algunas de sus obras maestras: People hold on (que se incluiría posteriormente en el debut de Lisa como bonus track) es una delicia. Doctorin' the House, que se publicó a la par que Doctorin' the Tardis (y un reguero de temas que serían los señuelos por el que avanzaron multitud de bandas y productores) de los inimitables KLF (pioneros y maestros del Cut&Paste además del saqueo) es otro clásico. Stop This Crazy Thing con Junior Reid & The Ahead of Our Time Orchestra es otro rompepistas. Fat (Party And Bullshit), Theme From Reportage, Which Doctor?o No Connection son piezas sin (apenas) apoyo vocal, en la línea que habían avanzado M|A|R|R|S (Pump up the Volume) o Bomb the Bass/Tim Simmenon (Beat Dis) que a su vez se habían apoyado en Say Kids What Time Is It? de los propios Coldcut). Por cierto KLF lanzaron What Time Is Love? en el 88... (I'm) In Deep si parece haber cogido influencias de New Order (que ese año publicaron una obra maestra como es Technique) y que luego servirá al sonido Madchester (podría estar en cualquier disco de Happy Mondays). La voz es la de Mark E Smith (The Fall), toda una declaración de intenciones. My Telephone fue el único sencillo nuevo del álbum, el resto habían sido grandes éxitos publicados previamente. Smoke 1, luego la usaría Queen Latifah en Find a way, que es quien pone la voz. La titular What's That Noise, con sus bongos en medio de una fusión electro- funky, cierra el disco. Soul II Soul eran más elegantes y KLF eran más todo, pero Coldcut ayudaron a borrar del mapa las producciones de Stock, Aitken & Waterman. El problema es que esos sonidos de baterías sintéticas y cajas de ritmos se han quedado ancladas en una época muy concreta. Aquí teníamos a Toni Peret y José María Castells (con sus Max Mix) y a Raul Orellana (con sus Bolero Mix), que realizaron trabajos sensacionales. En esa época estaban (al margen del Acid house, New Order y todo el sonido Ibiza), Soul II Soul (publican en el 89 el imponente Club Classics I), el Hip Hop y los híbridos dance estaban a velocidad de crucero (Paul´s Boutique de los Beastie Boys, Rhythm Nation de Janet Jackson, Lōc-ed After Dark de Tone Lōc, 3 Feet High and Rising de De La Soul, No More Mr. Nice Guy de Gang Starr, Raw Like Sushi de Neneh Cherry, All Hail the Queen de Queen Latifah, Done by the Forces of Nature de los Jungle Brothers, Pump Up the Jam de Technotronic, etc.) aunque nada como el piano house... Otros discos de un excitante 1989: Stone Roses de Stone Roses, Playing with Fire de Spacemen 3, New York de Lou Reed, Doolitle de Pixies, On Fire de Galaxie 500, Disintegration de The Cure, Paul´s Boutique de los Beastie Boys, Technique de New Order, Freedom de Neil Young, Let Love Rule de Lenny Kravitz, The Seeds of Love de Tears for Fears, Automatic de Jesus and Mary Chain, Love and Rockets de Love and Rockets, Dum-Dum de las Vaselines, Spike de Elvis Costello, Rhythm Nation de Janet Jackson, Mind Bomb de The The, Mothers Milk de los Red Hot Chili Peppers, Full Moon Fever de Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Ojalá Que Llueva Café de Juan Luis Guerra, Shahen-Shah Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, The Raw and the Cooked de los Fine Young Cannibals, Primal Scream de Primal Scream, The Whitey Album de Ciccone Youth, Lōc-ed After Dark de Tone Lōc, 3 Feet High and Rising de De La Soul, 101 de Depeche Mode, Like a Prayer de Madonna, Nick of Time de Bonnie Raitt, No More Mr. Nice Guy de Gang Starr, Raw Like Sushi de Neneh Cherry, The Real Thing de Faith No More, Liquidizer de Jesus Jones, Heart Shaped World de Chris Isaak, Bleach de Nirvana, Velveteen de Transvision Vamp, Pump de Aerosmith, The Healer de John Lee Hooker, Crossroads de Tracy Chapman, Hats de The Blue Nile, All Hail the Queen de Queen Latifah, Done by the Forces of Nature de los Jungle Brothers, Back on the Block de Quincy jones, Me and a Monkey on the Moon de Felt, Ninety de 808 State, Hallelujah EP de los Happy Mondays o Pump Up the Jam de Technotronic, If I Should Fall From Grace With God de The Pogues, Soul II Soul- Club Classics Vol. One. Y como placeres culpables: Cuts Both Ways de Gloria Stefan, Foreign Affair de Tina Turner, ...But Seriously de Phil Collins y Neither Fish Nor Flesh de Terence Trent D'Arby
Not for me.
Meh. I could see how some could like it, but it's definitely weird. Not really for me though. It it pretty long for what it is.
I was feeling good with this generic house music at first but after a certain point I realized it was making me irrationally angry. I think too many samples is not enough samples but this is too ding dang busy!
Not a big fan
Really hasn't aged well, and I count Coldcut as one of my all time favourite groups
Ugh, this really is not my bag, but there were a couple of good tracks, I guess. Otherwise, I was just waiting for this to end. Just sounded like a lot of dance music from that era.
Chilly!
It's the first time on the list that an album has a self-explanatory name, right? The answer to "What's That Noise?" could be "Just another generic and forgetable 90s electronic album." One extra star because I learned to respect synthesizer players, and the album's upbeat is nice.
I don't hate it, but it definitely fails the Vanilla ice test. Hard. I was more interested in what the original piece sounded like than actually listening through the song. It never felt like it was re-contextualizing or elevating any of its samples, just that they didn't really want to come up with much themselves. I am not against sampling, but if I'm either thinking about the original as I listen, or am only really engaging with the sample and not the new work, it's not a sample. It's a crutch. I'd rather listen to Super Grit. I'd also be open to someone sampling it and really exploring the musicality of the original, but this does neither. It's, at best, memberberries, but it comes off more as feeding on the roadkill of better artists. I don't hate it, but I don't really think it earns anything,
This is not my jam, but I can at least see why some people would be into this. Some of the funk is kinda fun, but some of it is annoying. 2.4
In response to the query in track number one, no thanks.
I like some house music but this album just didn’t do it for me.
Maso
Hip hop/beats, a little singing
Not my jam really
Not for me
Peut-être que cet album est essentiel dans le monde electro, mais une chose est sure est que ça n'a pas tellement bien vieilli et j'ai eu de la misère à le terminer. La production laisse à désirer. 4/10
Album is okay. Not really my kind of music, especially just sitting around and listening. Maybe I would enjoy it more if I was at a party or club. 2.5/5 Probably won't listen again
they don't answer the question btw 2/5-2.5/5
Please judge this album by its cover. It's not any better than it looks.
I couldn't remember a song off of this album to save my life. Bunch of polished nonsense.
Hmmmm not the sort of late-80s stylings I was hankering for today.
Pretty bog-standard house music with DJ sound effects sprinkled around to give an air of legitimacy. But the music's quality is undercut pretty significantly by the track length, which (with an average of 6+ minutes per track) is just too long to maintain interest for most listeners. The music also generally lacks hooks or any key elements to keep the listener engaged. It's extremely repetitive, and not in an especially great way. The percussion is almost all (if not entirely) electronic, and that's a bad thing. It makes the music sound dated and is pretty exhausting after an hour of club-house tunes. But it could be worse. Stop This Crazy Thing has a great big-band-esque horn riff (almost like a samba melody). People Hold On has an unusually loud synth/piano/drum combo to complement the already clear-cut vocals – which are the best vocals on the album – making it pretty memorable. It's quite disco-y, which is a contrast from the otherwise hip-hop-like atmosphere. 2/5 Key tracks: People Hold On, Stop This Crazy Thing
One distinctly remembers this being way oversold upon release in late '80s and boy does it sound rooted in that time now. What is it really innovative to use "Pump Up the Volume"? All these silly sound clips – it's the equivalent of pop art collage, which is perhaps aging somewaht more gratefully. Editors description suggests a major overweighting of having been in the know when this was underground or only available on "private London radio." Not even Mark E. Smith (or Lisa Stanfield or Queen Latifah) can save this from being oh so tiresome (and way too long). The "party and bullshit" reference is funny and good to know – that's the best that can be sai, for it's far too dumb to be dope.
I like the album cover. The music I can forget about forever now though. Will I listen to again: 0%
I've enjoyed Coldcut in the past (particularly "Timber", but I found this a bit grating. The collaborations are good, and I didn't realise they did "People Hold On." But some of the more sample-based songs feel like they're little more than tech demos that fail to come together as fully-fledged songs. I know that's kind of the point, but it's something hip-hop was doing far better on the other side of the Atlantic.
Strange album. Starts great but then nonsense takes over.
Byrjar ágætlega en feidar rosalega hratt út í eitthvað blah...
Kinda fun at times, kinda annoying at other times
What's That Choice?
+: Fat (Party and Bullshit), (I'm) In Deep, My Telephone, What's That Noise +-: People Hold On, Which Doctor!, No Connection, Smoke 1 -: Theme From "Reportage", Stop This Crazy Thing, Doctorin' the House 4,6/10
Not on Spotify
Boring
Really struggled through this... the 80's DJ scratchy, repeating samples, with either hip hop salt n pepa vibes or corny electronic beats is really tough to make it through. My Telephone was almost passable, but that was the high point for me.
Meh
An ok album
Didn't much appeal. Very little substance to it. Electronica (is that what this is?) does very little for me anyway.
it was cool for 20 minutes. then it played for another 30. would definitely be a good record for some background music at a function
This album alternates between innovative ahead-of-its-time electronica and cringy Ross Gellar music. Rating: 2.5/5 Playlist track: People Hold On Date listened: 30/06/24
It was sort of OK. I liked bits of it and I liked that it was very different from one song to the next...
Found it on youtube. It was fine, I guess, but not my type of music
Aptly named "What's That Noise?" cause this was definitely some sort of noise.
Fun band. First time hearing. Nice mix of electronic/ alternative/ jazz/african. Impressed.
- Habe bei der Platte ein ähnliches Gefühl wie bei En-Tact von The Shamen. Zugegebener Maßen waren hier jedoch einige Parts und Beats, die mich dann doch etwas zum Mittwippen bewegt haben. - Ansonsten ist das einfach wieder so 80s Electro-Remix Mist. In keinem anderen Genre hat sich in den letzten 30-40 Jahren so viel getan, wie in der Tanzmusik. Und bei einer Musikrichtung, die eng mit technischem und digitalem Fortschritt verbunden ist, geht das häufig dann doch meiner Meinung nach mit einer Verbesserung der Qualität einher. - In den 80er und 90er klingt der ganze Quatsch für mich halt nach "EY YOOO, GUCK MAL WAS MAN ALLES MIT SO SYNTHIES MACHEN KANN", also einfach mehr nach Experimenten, die meinetwegen dann auch schon gute Ideen haben) - Alles ab den 2000ern war dann "nagut, den Quatsch haben wir jetzt ausprobiert; Zeit, dass wir auf der Basis mal wirklich den Anspruch und die Qualität erhöhen" 1,75/5
2.25
Very very 90s - even the telephone dial up sounds. Feels like a time capsule. Kinda fun and would probably put it on for a drive but everyone would ask for different music 5 minutes in. Also not quite for me.
This was a cool and yet unsatisfying album at the same time. The house music had good samples and the beats weren’t bad just felt like as the album dragged on it was a tad repetitive. Not sure how much better this album could be though. It’s some good house mix but not the best stuff and definitely not necessary to hear. 4.7/10
Sort of like a more funky, electronic Avalanches? But harsher 80s experimental sound with more actual DJ mixing and a raw sound. Liked the stuff that actually had singing. Can't see myself ever going back to this but it wasn't terrible.
The DJ scratches have perhaps aged. Some vibes I guess.
Important step in the development of bad music. Big inspiration for the techno to come, I guess. I hated this when it was new. Usually I come round a little over time, but not in this case. Still hate it. Writing on the wall that this isn’t on the major streaming services. Least hated song: smoke dis one
“I can’t live without my telephone” is simultaneously very dated and very applicable today. The rest of Coldcut’s “What’s That Noise?” is just dated. And sometimes pretty annoying.
Painfully 90s, all of the beats and sound effects were completely of their time. The song with all the phone calls was particularly annoying and I'm not sure this album achieves anything that you couldn't get just by listening to pump up the jam a few times. I'm sure it achieved what it set out to, Mr motivator probably has it fairly constant rotation, but I can't think when I would ever actually want to listen to it.
Solid 2 stars. Parts were interesting, other parts were not. First half better than second half. Some tracks merged together too much.
From the first notes of this album, I was disappointed. I don't understand the appeal of a mediocre mix of hooks, samples, random voices, and synth. However, If you enjoy 80's heavy electronic meet hip-hop music, this is for you.
I guess I was entertained, but it was too long and I would not listen again.
I get the historic value of this album. But my groove is a bit more polished, more "into the future" than this. The issue for me is it is no "longer" 70's funk, and not "yet" true trip hop electronica. It is something in between. It reminds me of those early fusions between rock and hip hop that really endied up not quite committed to either. Some bands crush ther debut album and never quite reach that glory again, some bands grow better and better. I have the feeling that even though Coldcut became other bands and stuff, that collectively they got better than this. (Although it is humorous and does do "something" different.
Good background noise
So much promise. Each song had something interesting. None were amazing. I kept wishing to hear some old school rap over these beats.
Early house music. You can see where it came from with the funk, hip hop, and synth-pop touches. It's nice with some varied styles throughout, and a clean sound. Too long, dated, and repetitive with several duds. Comes off as cheesy with the excessive silliness and pop tropes in an attempt to appeal with the mainstream. "People Hold On" is a decent pop song but derivative of other songs at the time like Soul II Soul's "Back to Life". "My Telephone" has cool affects but is repetitive and cliche with boring pop vocals. "Stop This Crazy Thing" is dated but cool novelty plunderphonics. Reminds me of Malcom McLaren's Buffalo Gals. "No Connection" is a sick early techno song. Dated since there's not much going on, but I don't see anyone mentioning it. Didn't find much to like about anything else.
Best Song: Not Paid Enough. Probably had the best samples on the album, even if the scratching in the latter half became tedious. Worst Song: What's That Noise? The worst aspects of sampling, where it feels like the artist can't let a sample linger long enough to sink in before they jump to something else. Overall: Maybe this was influential in the sampling world, but it certainly isn't particularly interesting to a modern listener.
I cringed when I saw this was another UK electronica album. But it wasn't too bad, or at least as bad as others on this list. This is more hip-hop based. Think 80s Hip Hop. There are some good tracks, like Not Paid Enough and Smoke Dis One. Others, not so much. I think what really brings this album down from a 3 are the excessive vocal samples used throughout songs. They are seemingly random. I'm OK with a few... but I'd be lying if I said they didn't get distracting.
not on Spotify. Next please!!
Итак, это Хаус-музыка... Я чувствую, что пора сделать прическу.
The first song was great, but misleading, because the rest of this album was nonsense. It’s like listening to a radio DJ, who just wants to push all the buttons that make noise to be part of the song please don’t you’re ruining it. 3/10
Smoke dis one I'm wondering if a lot of the stuff I'm hearing that feels passe is the first time some of this stuff was done. Really enjoy the cartoon clips and stuff, but "stop this crazy thing!" has literally become a trope of the genre.
Idc
Four bad albums in a row.
Starts on a real high - I hadn't clocked that was Coldcut for some reason. There's some other good tunes, but ultimately feels a bit like one of those "megamixes" as it winds on. It's of its time of course.
Couldn’t listen to the whole thing. What I heard was fine but not good enough to have to seek out the rest on YouTube.
Very 1989
Hard to find a stream for this lp! What I heard was dance music not a fan
2 - This one isn't on streaming services. Yay... I was a bit confused by the track listing, but it turns out this album has a slightly different UK and US release, so I stuck with the original UK one. It was kinda boring and dated. It has a kinda cool sound to it, but it's not really my thing. I'm glad it was only around 40 minutes.
Ok at the time but a bit dated noe
Kept hoping I would like the next song but that next song never came.
This really isn't my speed, unfortunately. Not really sure what else to say except I don't care for this genre much, and I especially don't care for this period within the genre. It wasn't terrible though. 1.5/5
This was just okay. Electronic album, which isn't my fav genre. Probably cool if you're into samples.
Not bad for some weird techno house music but still not something I would listen too
I don't know what that was. The mix of every genre there is. At first it's a pop experience then somehow (not miracoulously) it evolves into reggae. There are too many samples. They were suppose to help and open up the album (I think), but there isn't much space left for the band's creativity.
That's the sound of a tool chest falling down the stairs.
Unable to find this album. 2.5 stars
Maybe it's cause I'm nearing the end of 1001 but this kind of annoyed me with its samples. It's all "fine" but I'd rather listen to something like Fatboy Slim over this. 2.5 down to 2.
Electrónica. Ambiente. Dance.
Very mediocre pop/dance album. The songs are not impressive and the performance is neither. Forgetable that's what you are!
I had to listen to it on YouTube so that already put me off a bit. It was ok but I agree the tracks a lil too long.
I like when it sounds closer to hip hop than Electronica. It's not something I plan I ever revisiting but it wasn't too painful. It was way too long.
Ok, some good ones but wouldn’t seek it out again
Never heard this!
Not on spotify, not that interested
Didn’t do much for me.
Techno, crappy.
This was pretty fun, but I'll never listen to it again.
I thought I would love this after the opening bars of "people hold on" but ultimately got most satisfaction from hearing all the samples best known elsewhere.
Meh
Besides 'People Hold On', which brought back some memories, not a lot to say. Not for me.
there’s something interesting here, but it’s pretty lost on me. probably sounds a lot better if you’re on e in a basement in south london, but sadly i am at work doing economics research.
They wer ahead of their time, if not their time signature.
It's a dance album with a million samples. I can't really tell where other artists' creativity ends and theirs begins, plus house is just never going to move the needle for me. Best track: Stop This Crazy Thing
I weet niet zo goed wat ik hiermee moet.
Not my era. My mother in law would love it however.
This album is not on Spotify. Found it on YT though. '89 hm....dance type 80's reminds me of what I imagine Paula Abdul sounds like. Yeah very clubby. Hm this track is almost industrial. Lots of funky sounds in some of these tracks, like ringing of phones, and crickets and lots of fun with the synth. Stop this Crazy Thing is catchy. Has some brass in it. Smoke dis one, I like the old school rap sound there. Okay cool stuff but only a 2 in my book for today.
Just ok
I'm Amish, I live without electricity.
It's a racket, is what it is.
What an apt question. What exactly is this noise? I was struggling along and then some faux dub reggae thing appeared. Do you need drugs? Or am I too old? I was happier when I didn't know this existed.
Not available on Spotify is not a good sign. This sucks. Dance music is bad. Maybe I don't really like music. Oh my god this is bad. Dance music with found sound?!? How have I never heard this before? Not available on Spotify because they couldn't obtain appropriate permissions from all the sampling. Good work, Coldcut. Not only does your music suck, but you stole it from other, more deserving, artists. Lisa Stansfield must have been one of these guys' girlfriend. The Jetsons was a knock off future Flintstones. My son makes better music in Garage Band. Queen Latifah was never one of my favorites and that's no different here. Stealing Eric B. & Rakim's Paid in Full beat and music and passing it off as a "new" song is insane. I am super glad this doesn't have permission to be on Spotify. The US release I found on YouTube is longer than the original by three songs.
No estaba en Spotify!!!!
I don't think I recognize this artist, album or any tracks by name. Though seeing Mark E. Smith and Lisa Stansfield as guest vocalists on this, and combined with the fact that this seems not to be readily available on streaming platforms, it all feels like a bad omen. Almost immediately, my suspicions were confirmed. Sorry, this just isn't my thing.
Third-rate ripoff of Steinski and Double Dee who did all of this so much better years before, and with heaps of style and wit to boot.
Not listed...
Yeah, This one is not for me. Just monotonous samples with no feeling. I think the green dudes on the cover agree with me.
It has all the pieces that make for good '90's dance music, and yet it just doesn't seem to work. Fat Boy Slim and Daft Punk achieved what this album did not.
Do you have an upper midlands or lower uplands accent? Do you spend much of your time in garages with your Mum's Casio? Do you want to be in a book but haven't done anything interesting?? (zoom in on me shrugging and play a sad trombone sound). Hi, I'm Patches Begonia, hater of music and friend to the talentless. Have you ever wondered what it's like to see your name up in lights, but gosh plum it, you just don't have any talent? Well if you're from the British Isles (England only) and you have access to YouTube, you can create one of the 1001 most important records to ever exist! Simply search "How to record audio" on the video sharing site, plug in your Casio, mash the keys and speak your brogue to the world. I hear you saying "Right. Patches bruv. It doesn't sound good at all mate, and it's doin me head in." I hear you, and let me let you in on a little secret; it doesn't matter! That's right! Just by saying words and recording audio as the special lil' Breton you are; your slab of mediocrity has qualified for becoming one of the greatest musical recordings of all-time! Just think of the boiler room sets you can do! Why, they'll be clamouring for your voice in Manchester, Essex-Upon-Barnsley, Pottington, West Pottington, Stokely, Brokely, Chokely, Gardner-upon-Gardnershire, Dagenham AND Redbridge and many more. With that kind of touring schedule, the fame is bound to overwhelm you and perhaps you'll die young, further cementing you as a legend to this sect of geniuses! Hey, if you don't die, I'm sure your samples of American black music will only get more subversive as time goes on. You cannot lose. What are YOU waiting for?? Order Patches' Special TLNTLS HCK sampler today and we'll throw in an echo-y microphone for all that important stuff you have to yell over that crazy jungle! Remember, You're not just talentless, you're talentless AND British. God Save the Garage! 1 GENRE: The Authour's mates.
Album 205. What's That Noise? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgYhZ5Ennig) — Coldcut (1989) Nope, weird house electronica. Not available in turkish spotify aahh 1/5 No liked songs
Vid ett tillfälle tänkte jag ”det här låter schysst” men det visade sig vara reklampausen på YouTube som dragit igång.
ja var ere för oljud
"Vad är det för oljud?" frågar sig Coldcut i albumets titel och jag är beredd att hålla med. Klassiskt öppet mål, ber om ursäkt men var tvungen att sparka in den öppna dörren. Kanske är det jag som kommer in från fel håll, inte fattar grejen, inte var där 89 och drog ladd i ett industriområde i Manchester. Aldrig! Jag vet allt om musik. Således vet jag att detta är kasst oavsett tidens tekniska begränsningar.
Ugh.
I had an epiphany today, it's something I've thought about quite a lot but today while listening to this album, it really hit me. And that's that this entire list of 1001 (well, 1089) albums is not auto generated or anything like that, every single individual album on this entire list was hand picked by a human being with a love and passion for music and music history. Each album was individually listened to and the maker of the list thought "yep, this is a significant album for the progression of music history and it's one that any fan of music should hear." The maker of the list did that with 1089 individual albums. And of course in that, you have a lot of albums that are obvious undeniable classics. Abbey Road, OK Computer, Illmatic, Remain in Light, I could go on. But then you have albums like this. I don't mean this rhetorically, I'm asking this question with full sincerity; why the fuck is this album on this list? You might like this, sure. I don't particularly but that's the beauty of art being subjective. But regardless of one's subjective opinion on an album like this, objectively this album is in absolutely no way an essential listen. Like there are plenty of albums out there I like, even ones I love, but many of them I wouldn't even entertain calling them an essential listen. I just like them because they are to my taste and I enjoy listening to them, but they are not important parts of music history that everyone needs to hear in order to have a deeper understanding of music. Which is exactly how I feel about this album, and honestly I feel like about half the albums I've listened to over my two and a half years doing this project. Just pointless annoying slop that nobody *needs* to hear. If you like this, great, I'm happy for you. But anyone labelling this as an essential listen that changed the course of music history is completely delusional.
ASMR - you're listening to DJ beats in your kitchen and periodically you mom yells something
У меня этого альбома нет..
What's that shit?
eh
Fanns inte på någon streamingtjänst. Efter att jag hittade den på youtube så önskade jag att den inte fanns där heller
1/1
No album available?
Wasn’t available on any streaming service
Can not rate not on Spotify
"This is a Journey into Sound." No, not for me, it's simply awful. I hate those awful scratching noises. Those damned "announcements," the whole shebang. Sounds, sound snippets, I have nothing against them, but this is a compilation I can't make heads or tails of. Sure, there are fans, and I know that even hitting a car hood with a sledgehammer can be brilliant. Yes, I'm into Einstürzende Neubauten. I'm not into Coldcut.
Soulless, as if they had AI in 1989.
I normally love EDM. But this? This sounded like I got stinkface’d at WrestleMania 2001 and the ref just let it happen. I respect the audacity. I do not respect what it did to my ears.
Mostly unpleasant, repetitive and uninteresting. Did not enjoy.
The album name speaks for itself. Only listened once due to length. Though the chick singing was OK at times. Otherwise electronic/dance music that went on way tooo long. Have no fear, we'll be playing in the sunshine soon! 1.5
Couldn't access this album. I'll give it a go another day.
One star bc it couldn’t be found :(
No Spotify no stars
I thought an adobe software AD was a part of the album. That’s how little I enjoyed this sample riddled boring ass album. First clunker on the list.
1/10
"You don't need to listen to that one, trust me."
Vacuous
No, absolutely not my tempo
Not only is this shitty 90's club music, but that dickbag from The fucking Fall is featured on a track.
War nicht bei Spotify
Awful
Whoever made this list needs their head checked.
Not available on Spotify is not a good sign. This sucks. Dance music is bad. Maybe I don't really like music. Oh my god this is bad. Dance music with found sound?!? How have I never heard this before? Not available on Spotify because they couldn't obtain appropriate permissions from all the sampling. Good work, Coldcut. Not only does your music suck, but you stole it from other, more deserving, artists. Lisa Stansfield must have been one of these guys' girlfriend. The Jetsons was a knock off future Flintstones. My son makes better music in Garage Band. Queen Latifah was never one of my favorites and that's no different on. Stealing Eric B. & Rakim's Paid in Full beat and music and passing it off as a "new" song is insane. I am super glad this doesn't have permission to be on Spotify. The US release I found on YouTube is longer than the original by three songs.
En ymmärrä
this is a prank album. i think i am genuinely being pranked. the first song in this album, "people hold on", is a groover. house is a genre that tends to bounce off me, but this opens with a deliciously late 80s energetic track that would be fantastic to dance to in a club. after expectations like that, the rest of the album is "when do they stop tuning their instruments" tier garbage. worse yet, it's "your buddy's first attempt with a DAW" tier. i just want to know what goes into the mind of a person who thinks that this completely unremarkable forgotten english house album that does not exist anywhere except for a single 200 subscriber youtube channel with a big yoshi profile is not only Great, but *essential listening* for one to appreciate the entire body of modern music. madness.
Not on Spotify. I listened to a couple other songs from the band…all I can think is maybe Spotify rejected this album.
🤮
eugh
Every song sounds the same for an hour.
1.5 Yeah man I can’t do it. I can’t do another hour long British electronica album when I’ve already listened to 20 for this project! He has no justification for including so many on the list. Easily the most overrepresented genre on this list given their actual influence and popularity. I’m so over it! This one is not even the worst, but it’s one of the stupidest! “Telephone” is one of the more inane songs I’ve suffered through for this project. It sounds like a children’s song. Thank you for telling me the telephone is bad in TYOOL 1989. Come on dude. Nice album cover though.
Couldn’t listen on Spotify
Ass
I can't figure out why this is here?
Couldn’t find this album
I dont know what I was listening to, it was half an hour of noise. Not very pleasant at all. Turned it off.
Not being on Spotify is annoying. Immediately I have an image of a curly permed woman in a leotard, hairband and tights ready to give us instructions for aerobics. Sort of like the album cover actually. That didn't last long. Oh no. A wild Mark E. Smith appears. No exercise going on here. What's that noise? Indeed. It could be a scratch, a phone, a saxophone or something else. I'd say it's like a bad trip, but it's not even as good as that. I dunno what the purpose of this album is. Is it a selection of 80s noises to use for crappy projects? To play at your pretentious art and fashion show? To piss off the neighbours? It's hip hop without the hip. It's house without the consistency. Stop This Crazy Thing was as good as it got, but it didn't hold up long. I liked the dooty bit. I'm glad it's not on Spotify. Nobody who worked on this deserves a microfraction of a penny that my stream would earn it. Imagine the recommendations that would follow. In fairness, it does as it says on the tin.
I get that it's important. I don't like it though.
It’s a hot mess that never catches my attention
Bad, just bad 90's house music w/ tons of samples. Repetitive and annoying. I can't write more about it. I'm too angsty now from listening to it. That's a 1 for you!
I just can’t. I thought it was okay, and I realized I was only 15 minutes into an album that’s over an hour. Maybe it’s not the album’s fault. I don’t think anybody is supposed to just sit and listen to house music, sober and solo. Still, it didn’t even seem like the best house music. I couldn’t.
Not for the hard of hearing
Late 80es house band mixtape. Al the streaming services are right: too less value to waste diskspace.
I thought the ads on YouTube were most interesting then this album.
Meh. This doesn't do it for me
Doesn't play
Couldn’t listen on Spotify
This album is not available on Spotify
??? das einzige was ich irgendwie in Verbindung zu irgendwas bringen kann ist das cover mit dem Radiohead Video? c
This is it. The first 1 star in my journey. The only good thing about this album was the samples - which weren't great either - but I don't think anything was added to them. It's just shit. Sometimes it was funny too, like stop this crazy thing, that actually made me laugh. So bonus points for that. But still 1 star. Maybe I'm being harsh, but I still feel if any album deserves a 1 so far it's this one
I hope this can serve as a reminder for all mankind that Mashups may fool your dumb lizard brain for a minute, but ultimately they will not bring you joy.
Couldn’t listen on Spotify so did not listen
It's like it was a goal to go into the studio to see how many awful sounds you can string together to make a song. And there's 13 of them. And it's long as fuck.
Couldn’t find
What's that noise you ask? Just a bunch of shitty music. Nothing to see here.
Couldn't find it on Spotify
Not streaming
It was difficult to find this album and it certainly was not worth the effort. 1 star or F.
Whiny guitars absolutely drowned in reverb was a bad choice. Also, Elvis did it better. I bet 80s punks loved this crap.
The fact that as of July 2025 you struggle to find this album on any streaming platform speaks volumes. If you were able to listen from the misfortune of having bought the album and having it your collection then my sympathies go to you. YouTube snippets were the only way I could sample this album but that made the whole experience mercifully short. 1/5 30/7/25
Para uma pessoa de mais de 65 anos de idade o tempo é algo precioso demais, para ser consumido ouvindo música de DJ. Mais um álbum na lista dos "1001 discos para morrer antes de ouvir". Dispensável e desnecessário.
I love Lisa Stansfield's voice. Love it. So that gets one star. The rest is not for me. Repetitive and patchy.
Bitty. Annoying
I’ve never heard of Coldcut or this album before, but I’ve seen the album cover on the visual list website, and it’s certainly eye-catching. I see that this album is electronica/house music, and as a lover of synths and keyboards, I feel that this is a genre that I should love. However, the electronic and house music albums that I’ve reviewed so far (especially ones from the late eighties and early nineties) have been pretty lackluster. Maybe Coldcut will be the first house music album to really win me over! (For the record, I listened to the US release of this album) Unfortunately, Coldcut did not win me over to Team House and Electronica. While there were some moments on this album that I enjoyed, overall, I found this album to be pretty tedious and boring to listen to, and it mostly sounded repetitive to my ears. On top of that, there were some samples and elements to some songs that I found pretty grating and annoying to listen to. The first track, “People Hold On,” was pretty decent. This song (as did most of the album) had a very late eighties/early nineties sound to it, but Lisa Stansfield’s vocals worked well with the sound. I liked the samples and synthesizers, but the bass really stood out to me the most. On “Fat,” the bass was still great, but I missed the live vocals, and I found the sampled vocals to skew more towards irritating. However, on “In Deep,” I really hated the live vocals, and I was craving the sampled vocals of the second track (I think Mark E. Smith is pretty talented, but this was a miss for him). “In Deep” was pretty bland musically too, and this is where I started to lose hope that I would enjoy this album. “My Telephone” was my favorite song on the album. I was glad to hear Lisa Stansfield again, and the combination of her singing with the spoken samples sounded great. The phone sounds that were utilized were really great, and I’m surprised I didn’t find them annoying. After “My Telephone” though, I thought this album was really boring and bland, and nothing else really stood out to me. I was intrigued by Queen Latifah’s vocals on “Smoke Dis One” though, because I don’t think I’ve ever heard her rapping before. Her voice had a power to it that I really liked, but unfortunately, the lyrics were pretty hokey, and the music was bland. Overall, this album was a dud. The tracks with Lisa Stansfield were the best part of this album, but it wasn’t enough to lift Coldcut out of the depths of one-star albums.
Thankfully, that album isn't available on Deezer, so it won't mess up my algorithm. (Thanks to the old gods and the new.) It's the most boring kind of house music that made me loathe school disco parties in the '90s.
Well looky what we have here. . . another shitty House record. It can’t be!?!?!?!?! I should have googled the editor of this list before I started - I would have avoided a lot of UK Shit.
American infected Eurotrash.
Nah
Not on Spotify
A more proper title would be This Is Noise.
Not found on Spotify, but other albums are a no