Reviews (page 7 of 8)
The band is very aptly named because their music is slow, dry, and I want to turn them into soup
Tortoise is the perfect name for this band. Everything is slow and rhythmic.
Not for me
40 minutos de disco con 6 canciones y la duración de la primera canción son 20 minutos? Qué sentido tiene eso? Tenía que tener un mejor reparto de tiempos. Por lo demás suena bien, echo en falta algo de letra de vez en cuando y algo mas de caña.
Very experimental. Not really my taste. "Along the Banks of Rivers" is the best song of the album.
"Post-rock" = "Dull" If this is what got the Friends of Dean Martinez together, then cool. That gets them a second star. Otherwise, it's barista music.
I speed-ran the math rock subgenre in my youth, moving from American Football to Hella to Meshuggah in the span of 6 months my Junior year of high school. Along the way, the post-rock Slint-inspired stuff never caught my attention, as it was either too sparse or too quiet for my ears. I craved the extremes, and the post-rock stuff felt like Brooklyn Divorced Dad™️ music to me, music made for a calm show with no pit where you can lean against the doorframe beneath the exit sign, nursing a PBR, not concerned about how much your knees will hurt in the morning. I’m older now and work in an office, and when I occasionally loudly listen to the math rock I used to like, my colleagues will turn to me and ask if I’m doing okay, mentally, and that happens more often than I’d like, so I tend to just avoid that type of music while I work. So I now get the appeal of post-rock - it’s tame but still weird and off-kilter. And Tortoise does a good job with their weird repetitive riffs and jazz-influenced structures. It is listenable, and well-made, and maybe even important to the genre, although, again, because I wasn’t initially sold 15 years ago, I barely know what the post-rock essentials are, so never hearing about this until today is a silly critique. If you want ambient, jazzy post-rock, this album serves it up hot and ready. But I don’t really need this in my life, personally, so I’m not really sold on this either. It is very, very bland. And that has a time and place, but I’d rather have my coworkers assume I’m having a mental health crisis because I’m listening to The Dillinger Escape Plan than assume I’m old as fuck for listening to this.
Mistä vetoa, että tämä on instrumentaalimusiikkia vain siksi, että soittajat ovat "cooleja" tyyppejä, jotka pelkäävät, että nolaisivat itsensä itsensä, jos yrittäisivät laulaa? Levy on sinänsä yllättävänkin kiinnostava: en välttämättä kuuntelisi uudelleen, mutta kelasin taaksepäin aina silloin, kun jokin kohta meni minulta ohi.
Couldn't get into this
Cold music you can't touch, that keeps its distance and does not invite in glass everywhere. there was a series of equations to solve at the source a puzzle to which the music is a solution something to look at but not enter was there a who they had in mind? made for spaces empty of community. deserted banks of dry rivers Where is life? I will not come back here.
Conocía el anterior. Éste me ha aburrido un poco.
Silent Post Rock.
I prefer John McEntire in The Sea and Cake.
2.4 Not everyday listening for me by any stretch of the imagination but I did find certain parts were pretty progressive and interesting
Usually, I say that I like rock music. It's a way to define myself, even broadly. Now, I'll start to say that I dislike post-rock. This is much more precise in defining myself.
2nd day in a row where I get a 20 minute long opener song. This is an instrumental album which is the first in a long while. Nonetheless the music just isn't that interesting. It just kinda limps along never really being all that assertive.
In college, I went to a house show at "The Treehouse". The house had an actual living tree growing through the middle of it. That's irrelevant to this rating but objectively very cool. At the end of the night, a dude played a set that largely consisted of the automated voice from the New Jersey Turnpike Authority being played over and over on repeat with some random beeps and boops thrown in. It was hands down the worst sound I have ever listened to and I will never forget it. Now back to this album... About 16 minutes into the first song, a horrible combination or sirens and other stressful beeping started. I actually could not make it through to the end of the song because it was so terrible and it reminded me of that troubled young man who loved the New Jersey Turnpike Authority too much. The rest of the songs were not nearly as offensive but they were basically just a crappy version of Explosions in the Sky.
It's a weirder Explosions in the Sky with far more electronic sounds. The first song, Djed, dragged and was a little too ambient for me. Glass Museum slapped. None of the other songs really drew me in. I was bored most of the time and likely wouldn't play this again. 4/10
Could not really get into
A interesting album. No lyrics throughout the album. Definitely a bit experimental. The first song was awful and does not deserve to be called music. The second was probably my favorite. Most of the rest of the album reminded me of lofi study beats. Lots of… nature sounds used throughout the album. Not bad, but the first song kinda ruined it for me
Lots of meandering.
Click "play". Waiting for something interesting to happen. Around 14 minutes into the first song I thought my speakers were broken. They were not. 30 minutes into the album, did it start yet? Have I missed something? 40 minutes in. Someone is softly playing the guitar. VEEERRRYYY softly. And just like that it's over. It's over? It's over.. It was nice though.
At times this album drags on like a tortoise. But there are moments where this pace of development pays off.
Instrumental. Boring. Pointless.
Decent background music, nothing too distracting.
Not my cup of tea
2.5/5
WTF?
I knew we were in for a long one when they busted out the keys and started noodling on the first song. And much like this album, I have nothing else to say
Fine to listen to in the background of doing stuff but felt like at times I am just listening to random sounds. Various clicks and sounds fading in and out. It feels like a 90s psychedelic mostly instrumental sounds. Wouldn't be surprised if there is some Pink Floyd influence behind them. I think I enjoyed the last song the best Along the Banks of Rivers. Giving it a hard 2.5. Almost want to give it a 3.
Did not do much for me
What the crap was that?
gonna have to revisit this one maybe, just didn't click with me!
Es akustisches rock Album? Hmmm... Schomol schwierig. Eis vo de erste mal dasi Wikipedia ahglueget han welli denkt ha evt isch da e deeper meaning behind it... Naja irgendwie sött meh "hailed as godfathers of the American 'post-rock' movement" ih demm fall fasch meh als Warnig gseh als öppis anderes. Es tönt ja scho nid terrible aber ich gseh überhaupt nid de appeal vo dem. 2/5
ahh stiimmt ich hanmer denkt ich vermisse 20 minütigi lieder zum GLÜCK hemmer wiedermal eis oke nachem chli ahstrengende intro hanis na nice gfunde dass d drums so schnell ahfanget und jz ischs eifach chli es vor-sich-her-geplänkel, nöd schlecht, nöd würkli guet erinneret mich ziitewiis chli ah game-musig, chunnt aber nöd ah mario kart musig anne hahaha cover findi ok, rette die fise oke ja ich bruch jz e pause oke glass museum findi scho um einiges spannender isch aber glaub en klassische fall vo "hey ich chegg dete isch das glaub speziell gsi aber us de hütige sicht ischs ener chli langwilig" hey ja s xylophon oder was es au immer isch findi mengisch funny aber ja along the banks of rivers hani sehr geil und moody gfunde, glichzitig chönnts au d übergangsmusig vomene die drei ??? hörspiel sii jaa ich kueg wieni morn gluunt bin aber s letschte lied hets jz glaub gad vomene 2 ufes 3 ufeglupft oke nei figg ihm
Not my type of music.
This is human music -4/10
Boring, but not the worst thing to listen to when I was getting groceries. But I’m not rocking with a 20 min long song
Pretty funky, it’s very difficult for me to stay engaged when there are no words and I don’t think the instrumentals were all that 4/10
Pretty accessible as far as avant-garde music goes. I don’t really like avant garde music though. Definitely too boring to be the only thing I’m doing, but alright background music. 4.5/10
First song sounds like a 10 year old trying to make a daft punk song in garage band but they don’t know how to start a new song so they just keep piling on to one with all their new ideas 4.5/10
Was on in background. Didn’t really grab me.
Glass museum and ‘banks of rivers not bad
Interesting album but the only song really worth listening to is the intro which takes up half the album.
Godspeed you bland Mogwai! I dunno I guess Tortoise started this gloomy downbeat instrumental thing and I don’t hate it. But it’s not atmospheric enough to enjoy on its own and the lack of dynamics and drama just leave you with a soundscape. Probably good music for driving at night or walking by the sea.
Couldn’t get all the way through it. I like instrumental, but this all just sounded like one big song that wasn’t that great.
Music to build furniture to
Interesting album. Like most of the instrumental albums on this list, it's more of a mood music piece. Pleasant background music, but not something I can appreciate. 2/5.
The first track certainly did not need to be 17 minutes. The rest of this was decently enjoyable.
Music to fall asleep to
A chill album that was nice for ambient music while doing chores. Definitely a time and place album
Well that was exceptionally irritating. There might be some jams hidden in the midden but it's hard to tell underneath the overwhelming trash-heap of noise. The few times something resembling a song rose to the top of the pile, it was repetitive and boring. And let's talk about that first track. 20+ minutes, guys? And halfway through, it just... changes completely? That's a new track, fellas. And then it changes completely again for the last two minutes? That's another track. This isn't hard math. When the song changes and it never goes back to an earlier musical theme, it's a new song. Saying it's not is just pretentious and frustrating. The ONLY reason this album isn't getting a full-on fail is because "Glass Museum", while repetitive and about two minutes too long, is at least interesting. The rest of the album is garbage.
Boring electronic music.
There were moments I hot excited about what was happening but nothing ever happened.
It was just okay.
an album with nothing but instrumentals… gross. seriously though, the first song is over TWENTY fuckin’ minutes! what the h? much of this album sounds like a jam session of a college jazz band. a lot of experimental elements. it feels like the musicians are trying to do something profound, i guess, but it just kind of falls flat.
Not my jam
Very abstract. Similar to Yes in that it's mostly instrumental. Hard to get into
An instrumental that went fast. Didn't sound critical to me, but ok.
C’est le God Speed You! Black Emperor d’ascenseur. J’adore la musique instrumental, mais ça me tombait vraiment sur les nerfs au bout d’un moment
If that's the music accompanying my immortality, then I'm glad I won't live forever.
turtle
I enjoy EITS instrumental but this is a bit soulless. No real chamce to groove or settle in here.
Tortoise taught us little.
Ok but not my fav
This felt unique, and I was certainly fascinated by all the rather uncommon instrumentation. That said, it really didn't do much for me beyond a little bit of curiosity and intrigue. I would have liked to have been wowed more, especially considering this album's place on the project. Interesting, but not THAT interesting.
Side B is a bit listenable, side A however os just 20 min of garbage. Gets an extra star bc that successfully convince you, on multiple occasions, that your stereo is broken
If I wanted to listen to random noise that sounds a bit like a thunderstorm, I'd listen to a thunderstorm.
Weird
Not offensive instrumental music. Would put on in the background to do work.
There’s a peaceful serenity to some of this record. It just gets too samesy for my and lacks true energy. I wanted something to get me going not an album to fall asleep to. Nonetheless for those that love instrumental music there’s some truly enlightening music being made here.
Falls between ambient and post-rock, but doesn't really reach either.
It's not terrible, some of the instrumentals are rather peaceful. However, this is just an album I could not get into.
Meh
Meh to the power of meh squared.
Not for me
This is just noise. It is not unpleasant noise but I certainly wouldn't call it a masterpiece at any point. It certainly is not noteworthy. It is just there.
I can recognize the influence, but just not all that interesting. There are better examples of post-rock that take the idea to the next level
if you listen closely, at 14:36 of "Djed," you can hear the sound of the band jerking off as they imagine music nerds pretending like this is listenable
Pfff als een schildpad op het land, zo saai en traag beweegt deze muziek.
Instrumentaal en experimenteel. Not my cup of tea.
Muziekaal hoor ik wel mooie dingen, maar het is me allemaal teveel van hetzelfde om echt te blijven boeien.
Movie score music. Not particularly interested in this unfortunately.
Never heard or heard of this. Is this another record that's going to annoy me about the exclusion of both Godspeed and Mogwai from this list? There is one Boards of Canada record. I mean, it's a pleasant enough listen, but not essential or standout, for me.
Interesting soundscapes for sure but hard to find a hook that would ever make you want to listen again
Was hyped for an under 45 minute album. But then the first track is the longest song in history and just goes no where.
Sopi videopelin tehofarmauksen taustalle. En kuuntelisi kyllä ilman jotain ajatuksia muualle vievää aktiviteettia.
Paikoin meni kyllä melko erikoiseks. Kiikunkaakun kakkonen
Weird shit. I don't really get it. I don't doubt that a great deal of thought went into it, but without a deeper understanding of what they were going for it's difficult to have a deeper understanding of the music. Also, how is "Post-Rock" a genre? Rock is still a big deal.
Eh, it was really just okay. I wouldn’t be upset if this were on or anything, but the song writing didn’t do it for me. It was often very repetitive and where it wasn't it didn’t catch me. So, all in all probably wouldn’t play this again.
I put this on and forgot it was playing. The song it ended on reminded me that I was listening to something. Not bad to listen to, but no sticky.
I think in Tortoise I hear the evolution of all pre-packaged cell phone ringtones. Shout out to the surgically-precise percussion. I liked this, a bit. I think it’s worth two stars.
3/10. Could have just been a pleasant album to listen to in the background despite being a bit boring, but nooo, they had to go and add a whole bunch of unpleasant sounds at the end of the first track to make you pay attention and feel uncomfortable. Not for me.
Actually really boring and bad. 3/10
Boring but not completely unlistenable
Not good. I get that it's trying to be different, but this is just not enjoyable. I am not sure what I was supposed to gain from this album.
Listened Before? N This sounds like the royalty free soundtrack to a YouTube video. Inoffensive and unremarkable. No vocals. MEH. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: A Survey
Takes a while to get into (for me). It is something I'd definitely add to a mood music playlist. But not great. 2.5
It's mind boggling how someone, anyone, could ever consider giving this more than 3 stars, let alone 5. I knew I was in trouble when I saw the 20+ minute track and spoiler alert: this wasn't good. All instrumental, which doesn't make it bad, but when it's arranged like it had been here... yeah it's not good. 3/10.
I thought it was ok at first (admittedly skipped the 21 minute first song), but then it started feeling repetitive
The opening track was pretty tedious and, especially towards the end, seemed really disjointed. There were some stronger tracks later on but the album had already worn my patience quite a bit by then
Six songs, 43 minutes. Track 1 is an ambient start - a pleasant building background bop. Doesn't make you stop and listen, it just exists. Track 2 has an uncomfortable drone and jarring sounds on top, it's like a helicopter with lift music, I had to skip it. Track 3= a bit nothing, Track 4=I had an alarm clock that sounded like this. Track 5= promising start, like a drum n bass track that never really takes off. Track 6 = like being underwater, maybe in a submarine. It was certainly an experience, but the only way I would listen again would be to play Track 2 "DJ'ed" to someone who loves music, as an example of how it can make you feel physically sick.
instrumental
First and foremost, post-rock needs to move me. That is why I love the genre. The way it affects you emotionally. Tortoise rarely moves me at all. There’s some interesting ideas along the way, but I’m never really engaged. I understand how influential this album has been to some of my favorite artists. It doesn’t change the fact that this blueprint has been improved time and time again.
Boring, uneventful and unnecessary
El primer track, un embole caprichoso. Cuando entraron los instrumentos se puso un poco más interesante pero no brilló.
I don't see the point of this album being on here. It's instrumentals, which is not bad, but it's not for me and the album is a bit dreary.
Yep, it's post rock. If you love this genre, then you'll probably love this album. For me, I can appreciate some of the sound, but overall, it's a giant snooze fest.
Phew. This took me all weekend to listen to. It wasn't bad, it wasn't good, it was definitely long.
Background music of no special qualities (and some distinct negative qualities, as per the case of the "experimental" second half of the opening track). By tomorrow I'll forget I ever listened to this album. Turtle, you said?
This is another one of those albums that had to be made so better versions of a similar sound could come after, I guess.. Explosions In The Sky, God Speed You Black Emperor, all that sort of thing that is like this but with a lot more energy and pizzazz. Was fine as background, bit didn't offer an awful lot imo. 2/5.
2/5 very slow and no payoff
Good
When this started I had rock bottom expectations, but some of it was actually rather lovely. There’s still a lingering feeling of ‘what makes this special?’, but to be fair, it was probably quite far ahead of its time. The influence on today’s many instrumental post-rock bands (most of whom I’d like, but would only ever listen to in small doses) is clear. 2.5.
Mid. Kinda boring and never really gets going.
Vaya, empieza fuerte "Djed" con 20 minutos seguidos sin avisar. En general se puede escuchar pero es bastante tostón.
I'm a bit "square" for "Post rock". Too disjointed and unfocussed.
I came across this review 'Will definitely be adding this to my “background music while I work” collection' and see what they meant, though I don't agree. I certainly couldn't stand to sit and listen to this as music - I'd have to be doing something and use it as background, and for that purpose some of it is OK. Clearly influencex by Kratrock. which I generally like. Most of this, I dislike.
Cool for what it is, but did I enjoy it? Not really.
Annoying, self-indulgent dreck only an album critic could love
The best thing I can say about this is that it was mostly inoffensive. Best track: ?
Not bad for background noise. Nothing of note, musically.
Cute, but it felt forced, so no. Glass Museum stood out, but like this album, nothing I would come back to. Maybe to help me sleep?
Not my thing. There were good moments, then sometimes they got ruined. Nothing I’d come back to.
This album is just boring. It’s the kind of album I should like. I’m the target audience here. I focus on music without giving lyrics any thought and I like the era and genre. If I can’t find any value in this, I can’t imagine other people do. My music taste would would indicate that I should love this, yet, alas, I do not.
This would absolutely be okay as background music to write to or something, but also, I've heard better video game music for that purpose.
Not my style
There's no chance I'd like this normally, but it was a vibe while ****
Rock instrumental/ambiental/psicodélico. Rallante. Un 2.
Conocía el anterior. Éste me ha aburrido un poco.
Pretty bad, pretty boring, really odd. Like someone listened to the instrumentals from Radiohead albums and decided to make a tribute compilation.
First song was ok. Then I thought it had finished, but no! It had devolved into this mushy slow ambient horror. The second song has a good riff, but like all instrumental stuff it sounds like they're jamming but they don't get anywhere. Sounds are OK but I need songs with lyrics.
4/10 maybe it is a post rock fundamental album, but it is not that great
Electronic, post rock 90s music. Not bad. Almost too chill
Boring, over-indulgent.
I'm sure that it is technically very competent. A little like Tangerine Dream in many ways and not just in that some over pretentious musicians like them while it leaves nearly everyone else absolutely cold. I was hoping that the first track was ending but when I checked it was roughly half way through. One I will leave to the afficionados.
In keeping with the sound-manipulation-posing-as-percussion on its central work, Millions Now Living is an exercise in blurring lines. Krautrock worship is easily Tortoise's strongest side: The melodies don't have the compositional or improvisational weight to really recommend them. But if they linger too long, it's a slight offense, and there is some care in the arranging, and all tones retain something more than nil. Half derivative and half niche, the final minutes underwhelm the scales; Still glad I listened for the niche.
This was pretty much an electronic album but done by a band with the instruments of a rock band. Surprisingly that made it a tad better than most electronic albums. I still found this to be relatively boring but slightly enjoyable at times. This album isn’t anything too special and likely won’t be revisited. 3.8/10
I don't have a problem with the genre at all, i like a bit of post rock and i like a bit of ambient, but this straddles the two in a bad way. it's aimless, its neither one genre nor the other. if it was post rock it would have a crushing crescendo, if it was ambient it would create a place but it does neither. either that or the place it creates is a menu screen on a mid quality computer game, which is not particularly a place i want to be.
Immediately lost 2 stars for having a fucking 20 minute track, and didn’t have many stars to begin with. I didn’t know lofi could make it on this list.
Sounded nice, not my bag.
Intressant niet echt mijn stijl
Fuck me sideways, but that was tedious - and I say that as a fan of prog rock. I was all for giving it a 1, but I almost enjoyed Along The Banks Of Rivers.
rock experimental? nada de especial
I do enjoy instrumental music, but nothing from this album has caught my full attentionThe music was just merely ok, not something that I would seek out or actively choose to listen to. As a background while doing something else it serves a fine purpose.
Difficile de comprendre ce changement de direction artistique radical de Tortoz. Le fameux compère de Mister V nous propose ici un album dénué de toute sorte de musicalité, après une carrière pourtant bien remplie dans le milieu du rap français.
It's not that it was a bad album I just wouldn't choose to listen to this type of music unless to go to sleep or background music. Maybe that is shallow of me but, eh.
Filmische achtergrondmuziek. Ik vind het wel wat hebben. Melodieuze muziek in een taal die we allemaal spreken: instrumen-taal :-) Grappig hoe 1 nummer een hele wereldreis presenteert. Daarnaast zijn er nog wat nummers die het album opvullen, haha. **
I see how the post-rock stuff done here could influence modern prog metal stuff I like....but this still doesn't do it for me. Weird, but not interesting to me.
It faded into the background like beige emulsion on a wall, it might as well not have been there at all. Not for me.
Slowcore music. Jam-type, no lyrics. First song is 20 minutes - FYI. It's meh. Prob 2-3 stars. Not for me
It was OK. The first song was really tedious but the others were more palatable. I like other albums in the genre better and honestly I don't feel too compelled to ever revisit this.
I think I'm just not a post-rock guy.
Verrrry chill music. A little too chill for me. I'm sure it is a nice relaxing album when you're in the mood for something like that.
Kind of boring, decent background music.
Background noise.
A laid back and moody indie rock sound. The tracks are instrumental soundscapes rather than songs… gets boring after a while
I'm not sure how this band or album is important or influential.
Full disclosure: if I had to pick one genre to consign to the garbage bin of history, it would be post-rock. This pompous snoozefest of a genre is a pet hate of mine. I'm already familiar with this Tortoise album and it's better than most of the genre that would come after. There are some strong elements of kosmische/kraut, minimalism, and ambient - all genres I love. But I'd much sooner listen to the originals, rather than have it all filtered through slow-motion indie rock. Having said that, the opening 20-minute track is actually very enjoyable. The five shorter tracks don't really do anything interesting. 2.5*
Chill if it was a rainy day, but it wasn’t a rainy day
It's ambient and okay, but not interesting.
First Listen. Really interesting. Need to hear more of this.
don't hate it but does nothing for me
Apparently this is 'post-rock'. It's is one for the musos I think. The intricacies of what it is doing musically goes over my head somewhat. A pleasant enough instrumental album though. 2.5/5.
Did nothing for me.
Extremely underwhelmed by this.. Shame
Didn't get this at all
They saw a vision and they made that vision happen
2/5 I don't recall any of these songs. And I heard this album 3 times.
a bit to avante garde to be called just ambient music 2.5
ambient, jazz, rock
TUBULAR BELLS! Jk. This was a the score to a 45 minute casual chase scene, on foot, in London, and no one is running. Somewhere between film noir, Good Times, and Mr Bean. Someone gave the Pink Panther a synthesizer. C+
Meh. Some interesting bits, some boring bits, not too much to say. Maybe I didn't give it enough of a listen, was pretty distracted.
The first track is 20 minutes of not a whole lot of anything but green museum was very good.
It's definitely interesting
meh, not really my jam as far as post rock goes, call me when we get to Mogwai
New one. Seems to be purely instrumental, not really my jam. After listen to it for a while I can safely say: I don't like this record.
Sounds a little like jazz Sounds strange with a mix of scifi. 2.5/5, it is hard to stay focused listening to this
It's alright. Seems all instrumental thus far. 2of5
really boring, nothing speciall, only to have in the background
Stop making 20 minute songs! No one has time for this! The whole thing is artful but not for me.
This really didn’t make me feel anything other than bored. It was enjoyable at times, but lost itself trying to find some sort of experimental sound. Not my cup of tea.
Not great
interesting vibes but no lyrics which is a no for me. 2/5
Ugh. Rhythmic noise for the sake of making noise. Just doesn't serve any purpose or have any emotion. The second half of "Glass Museum" was adequate as a song. That, and the fact that it serves as passable background noise, salvages a 2.
Zzzzzzzzz snooze town
Kept waiting for something to happen. Took like 4 songs to do so. I just felt like the album took way too long to do what they were trying to do.
OK, this is weird, 6 songs, but the first track is 20 minutes long. Plus, I've never heard of this, not even sure what the genre is.
Track 1 ‘Djed’ sounds like and is spelt like it was written by an actual tortoise. Musically it’s fine but rest of this album is so blah! Two shitty stars from me. Millions now will never die - that is the exact opposite to my belief system so not only do I not like the music but i can tell me and the band will have fundamental disagreements in our individual philosophies. I did enjoy one track “along the banks of rivers”
Caught me in the right mood for this sorta thing this morning. Hugely Hipster, layered indie instrumental. Decent without being something I'd choose to listen to. At points through this i had to check my speakers weren't broken though so loses a point for that. 2/5
Rock instrumental/ambiental/psicodélico. Rallante
eh
Feel like once you’ve heard one art rock band you’ve heard them all. Do we really need tortoise when we have mogwai?
first track was 20 minutes long sir i have adhd
Laaaaaangweilig!
Once again a techno album that was all over the place and just a lot of noise. Not worth a second listen.
Can someone tell them that a Post-Rock album doesn’t have to mean it’s incredibly boring. It doesn’t really respect your time, sometimes things actually happen but it’s too few and far between. Is it bad? Not really, there’s a basis of what could make a for some pleasant songs. It doesn’t really form into one though, go make actual short and concise and enjoyable songs rather than this drawn out and frustrating long winded album. There is a lot of more interesting Post Rock out there that does better at experimenting with the Rock format.
I wonder how some of these albums get made.
Never heard of them and I lived deeply in music in 1996. The 21 minute intro song that never went anywhere explains why. What a boring slog this was. Unless you're taking a class on how to make a soundtrack for a boring movie this album has no value top to bottom. There are exactly ZERO reasons this album makes a Top 5005 List, it is pure shit. No hits, no songs or vocals, no great musicianship, no hooks, nothing memorable, just blahhhh. Possibly the least justified album I've heard on here. WTF, there are SO many good albums, why in the world does Tom Fucking Waits, The Beta Band, and Tortoise pop up in one week!?! Baffling and unforgivable!! Half of One Star. I have now banned Tortoise from playing in my Spotify account.
Holy hell the first song is STILL GOING
Gimme a break 🤦🏻♂️
Oh boy. Boring. Today of all days I got stuck in a traffic jam with no way to turn this off. I guess it made me feel like a tortoise so at least it was thematic.
nah glass is ok, 2 star
I saw many people like this. I didn’t. Completely instrumental and in the most boring way. There were moments it virtually fell into silence and I wondered if my headphones had died. It makes for decent background music - but this is not a compliment. I might be missing something, idk.
Track #1 "Djed" felt like several ideas bolted together, it didn't need to be 20 minutes. The remainder if the album see-sawed between music and wankery. I did not need to hear this. For 1996 it is not impressive or evolutionary.
It didn’t accost me aurally, but it didn’t move me either. A bit like interesting elevator music.
1 1/2 - there is one decent song on this dog turd
Interesting and creative but the energy was not for me.
I like post rock. This was just boring.
1*
Una mierda, súper psicodelico raro de música de fondo cutrona. No me ha gustado nada
A lot I feel could have been interesting that is just drawn out and left as uninteresting and boring as humanely possible.
To quote eminent music critic Alan Partridge, ‘that was just noise’. This really did absolutely nothing for me- 20 minute opener ‘Djed’ set the tone for an album that meandered to absolutely nowhere, with no interesting stops on the way. You could probably make something similar with the presets on a keyboard.
Something weird happened while this album was downloaded to my iPhone as I normally listen to these albums while taking a walk or driving to and from work. Well, my phone updated to the latest iOS update overnight and all of the music I had downloaded disappeared, I had listened to the first track already and the fact that I couldn’t be bothered to download it again tells you everything you need to know about this album.
A snooze fest. 1 star or F.
I cannot abide albums that start off with 5 min of ambient sound effects. *How* is that enticing the listener to continue? Who is sitting there going, “wow, I love how the music goes click click clack while a broken air conditioner runs in the background.” ???
So this is what will be played in elevators in 10 years.
Was really not enjoyable at all. So forgettable I wasn't even always sure the album was playing.
i like minimalistic stuff but this is unbearable. I like dungeon synth and some of this stuff reminds me of it but this is awful-
literally looked to see if the album was almost over and it was still on track 1 background music
It starts with a 21-minute instrumental. And according to the description here, it sold 50,000 copies. The Offspring literally sold more cassettes of Smash out of their trunks. Tortise, what you've just made is one of the most insanely idiotic albums I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent recording were you even close to anything that could be considered required listening. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
There is a reason why world hits are being hits. This album is why some don’t.
Previously unknown. Not a fan.
2/10 Wasn't for me
Yawn
1. jed - 0 2. Glass - 0 3. Survey - 1 4. Tame - 1 5. Dear - 0 6. Rivers - 2
This is a bold face lie.
Banda puramente instrumental, música con sonidos extraños, buen ritmo pero con sonidos raros que sinceramente no lo entiendo. La primera canción dura 20 minutos, puro ruido raro, a los 2 minutos me aburrió. Hay unas canciones de este disco que ayudan a dormir, logran un sonido relajante, pero las demás es como si estuvieras escuchando los efectos de sonido de una película de ciencia ficción.
this made me feel like i was going insane
No classical music at all in this list (and almost no music from before 1955) but tons of ambient noise….. completely inane
Trash.
Não curti não, não é meu tipo de som!
Why...? This is tedious.
Das war... Interessant. Sonst kann ich nichts gutes darüber sagen. Mit gefallen 2/6 Songs: 'Glass Museum' war okay, und 'Along the Banks of Rivers' war interessant. Noch Etwas: wenn man einen 21 Minuten Song macht muss er interresant sein, wie z.B.: Waco, Texas von Ethel Cain (15 min), oder America von Prince (21 min), und wenn es noch dazu ein Instrumental ist, dann ist es normalerweise nur gut wenn es Jazz ist. Leider nicht so gut..
Langweilig
Yeah this just wasn't good. It just felt like noise half the time. I couldn't follow what was happening and it just wasn't very interesting. The songs I "liked" had moments, but I don't know if I would call them good. Actual 1.5. Liked Songs: "Glass Museum" and "The Taut and Tame"
More 'post-rock' random noise.
another one of thes 20 minutes lead-off songs. I'm not sure how this got a record deal ... sounds like guys futzing with stuff ... I guess if you were incapable of futzing yourself, you might want to listen to someone elses futz?
Very strange instrumental album that I got bored of really fast, there was both too much and not enough going on at the same time.
Q pedo rolas de 20 minutos jajajaj
The hell was that? Goodness sakes, was this tedious collection of sounds supposed to be enjoyable music?
Just because it’s post rock doesn’t mean it’s an “album to listen to before you die”
It was boring/ awful. Couldn't finish it. No point just synths.
Insanely boring. Disappointing since I normally enjoy ambient/background music, but this had a stronger "I didn't need to hear this before I died" vibe than usual.
The first song was a hellscape of elevator music lasting eons (okay 16 minutes but still). The rest was kind of more of the same
certainly not essential. side one is like a teen in the 80's getting a cool new keyboard and doing some noodling at home. side two is nothing that hasn't been done a thousand times in the past. like Focus or Mono with about 1/4th of the talent. "A Survey"... really? this is bollocks. for real. SCORES of amazing beautiful music out there and some pick this for album of the year?? i think the critics are hard up for what real music WAS.
Trollar de?
Not for me
Terrible
Not a big fan of music without lyrics, I can see myself studying or reading to this album though.
UGH WHY
no
what do you mean a 20min music ?!
Swings from sounding like parody of Muzak to sounding like incomplete tracks to someone learning how to use their Casio keyboard.
Definitely not for me
Millions Now Living Will Never Die by Tortoise was completely new to me and unfortunately, not in a good way. I went in open-minded, but the album quickly became a slog. What’s often praised as experimental and forward-thinking landed here as pointless. Rather than drawing me in, the album felt like a test of endurance, with tracks that just did nothing for me at all. There’s no moment that stood out enough to redeem the listen, and by the end I was relieved it was over. Favourite track: None – I struggled to find anything enjoyable. Least favourite track: Every track felt equally tedious. Album artwork: Ironically, the highlight. A genuinely cool and appealing cover
Sucks tortouse balls, sounds like whale sounds with a crappy drummer
1.5
If millions were to have listened to this they should have plausibly all died from boredom. It doesn’t so much sound like one tortoise but more like a trio of them crawling around as slowly as they can on their instruments or on the mixing desk or tape machine and screwing up the playback. Side-long opener Djed is a monumentally dull, messy, aimless, ear-achey waste of time and the other tracks on Side 2 is yet more tedious post-rocky jumble.
This sucks. I get jazz and post rock but this is boring as hell.
Not my cup of tea. Where the hell are these recommendations coming from?
Didn't even notice this was playing
ugh I just don't enjoy music that doesn't have words
This is your thanksgiving album? Really? If it gets better great, but the first two songs were elevator music
Felt like I was stuck in a lift for way longer than 42 minutes the album lasted
# Album Name: Millions Now Living Will Never Die # Artist: Tortoise # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: Wow, this is so amateur its unreal. What a joke. # Top Tunes: # Would I listen to it again? No
Fuck off. The pretentious "Tortoise is widely considered one of the most influential music groups of the last 40 years," is such bull shit. This is not impressive or good.
2.67
Sounds like someone pissing around on a keyboard
Not my thing
Boring as shit. All these '90s post-rock bands are boring as shit with the exception of Mogwai.
I /love/ post rock, but this was dreadful
Lyric-less album of mostly a bunch of sounds. Is there some musical components? Sure. But there's mostly just a bunch of effects thrown on a loop with some clickity, clack, button pressing bullshit. Maybe watching this 'music' come together in real time, in a live setting, could be cool. But listening to this as an 'album' is just absolute shit. What are we doing here.
Utterly boring
Demasiado experimental para mí gusto No lo volveré a escuchar nunca mas
It’s really hard to get it to 1/10
not really into instrumentals so i found this boring, you know what else i found boring? THE FIRST SONG BEING TWENTY MINUTES LONG!
Minecraft music. Instrumental forgettable pretentious nonsense.
This was a big waste of my time. No connection, no purpose.
I'm sorry, but this is the most not-for-me album ever released. I'm usually opposed to anything with "post" in the genre, and this is the epitome of why
An 18 minute intro track is a psychologically challenging way to start an album
Ambient-noise alternative type stuff. Not my thing at all.
No interested in an instrumental album
Boooooring 42 minutes of useless sounds
Single listen club🗣️🗣️boring ass passive music. Type shit you’d hear doing your onboarding process for work in a safety video. Knock off wii sports loading music
1-2 experimental
Fucking annoying. 1/5
Jesus Christ we get it you learned how to use garage band, fine, it’s still awful.
Possibly the most boring album I've ever listened to.
music to listen to while drowning. A little soundscapey, a little experimental, a little reptetitive and a whole lotta boring. Like the titles of these tracks could all be rearranged and it wouldnt matter. Bad list edition.
Really, man?!? A 43 minute sound exploration? Fuuuuuck you. Why exactly did I need to hear this?
I could’ve died before ever hearing this album, there are some parts within the 21 minute opener that are enjoyable inbetween lots of parts that aren’t so. Another experimental album that is on this iconic album list that I disagree with, I’m just going to give this a 2/10.
Didn’t like this
Das beste finde ich den Titel. Darüberhinaus ist halt Post-Rock etwas gewöhnungsbedürftig.
1 star
Slow as a Tortoise - ho hum. L comments: sounds like someone went around their house and found things that made weird noises, tried to put them into songs, and failed. I think I heard a broken, squeaky wheel for a while. Stupid (0.0*s) J comments: slow for sure, but listenable. Djed runs too long, The Taut and Tame leads the pack, Along the Banks of Rivers is a good finish. Love the song title, but expected better from Dear Grandma and Grandpa. Millions Now Living Will not listen again (2.2*s)
I assumed I was not going to like this about 3 seconds in. It could have been worse cause it the cover I thought I was getting 45 minutes of whale sounds like you buy and the crystal shoppe. But it still really really sucks. There is no structure and I'm sure that's the point and they nailed that aspect but it still needs to be enjoyable to listen to or say something. I get it and I agree u can make whatever this is and be free and spirited or whatever but at the end of the day I needed breaks from a short record. Once I was 10 minutes into the 20 minute hellscape I put 1 down in my notes and I was hoping it would change but it only got worse. They would hit on an interesting musical idea but in 2 seconds were off to something that isn't interesting. Very very frustrating album.
Very experimental sounding. It's not for me.
Djed was interesting. The rest was boring 1001 album worthy: no - 64/121
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