Reviews (page 7 of 8)
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
I like post rock. This was just boring.
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
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
Pink Jehovah's Floyd Witnesses accidentally programs a Commodore 64
not a fan
First song extremely long and mostly boring. The rest shorter and still pretty boring.
2/10 What are we doing here. Pass.
pointless!
Utterly insipid self indulgent shite
Goes on a bit
Wow. Not even for background music
Het begint met een sfeerzettende intro. Althans...dat dacht ik. Het blijkt door te gaan en wordt een opbouwend nummer. Althans...dat dacht ik. Het gaat op gegeven moment gewoon over van buitensporig saai naar buitensporig vaag. Dat laatste in die mate dat het strafpunten verdient. Halverwege het album staan de tellers dan op 1 nummer en 1 ster.... De rest van het album komt niet buiten de marges die het eerste nummer aangaf... Het is natuurlijk prima als je, onder invloed van, op je zolderkamertje geluiden ontdekt en opneemt. Geniet ervan. Als je dat dat kan spelen voor een publiek dat hier, onder invloed van, van kan genieten. Hartstikke goed. Maar om dat dan vervolgens als plaat te zien die iedereen gehoord moet hebben...Het gaat me wat ver. En halverwege de jaren '90 kunnen we gepiel met elektronica toch niet meer vernieuwend noemen...
Look, this was fine for background music if I was like eating dinner or something. This would never be anything I would spend money on. In fact, the album ended, and Google started throwing random shit on there, and I didn't even notice.
Not for me
Album 673 of 1001 Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996) Rating : 1 / 5 First track was supposed to be some "masterpiece". I found the whole thing to be simply boring. Nothing more to add.
the first track was good for 15 minutes but then the distortion actually hurt my ears.
This record is mostly just noise. There is the occasional melody here and there, but I was never interested in what I was hearing. I am honestly surprised that this one made the list at all.
Trash
i can see you. do you remember? i was told you wouldn't. go to adrian, michigan. soon you will be notified. they are here now. but many more will come. you need to go. they will become, shortly. the time is upon us.
No emotion, no passion. I didn't even detect a running musical theme. The Taut and the Tame shows they kind of know what music is actually supposed to be which means the whole album was deliberately in the opposite direction. Whack af. “Overproduced, underproduced, a bad song’s a bad song” -Ice-T
This is music in the loosest sense.
Not terrible, but pretty boring. A few times they did something that threw me off, which I appreciated. But most of the time I was just wondering when it would be over so I could listen to something I actually like.
I’ve only ever sold one album in my life and it was my uncle buying my cd from my senior project as a joke, so these guys are technically 50,000x better than me, and u know glass houses and not throwing stones and all that, but if you’re this band you’ve gotta go in your own Wikipedia article and remove that little tidbit of this selling 50,000 copies. Like that seems like a laughable number. I hated Djed. And all the scratchy noises through its entirety was painful. I guess some of the other songs would be decent for an action/thriller movie score but I’m not here to listen to that. One star.
This album is great if you're a movie producer about to make a Sci-Fi space movie and you can't afford Hans Zimmer. Just purchase the rights to "Djed" and chop it up as background music for the entire film. I should really like this album more than I do. I like the sound of it, but the structure is just all over the place. It meanders and winds with no direction. A third of the way through "Glass Museum" the song just stops so the guitarist (at least what it sounds like) can tune his guitar. Next time I hope they actually write their songs before getting in the studio and start randomly playing.
Too random and repetitive for my taste
“Post Rock Trailblazers”, according to some dweeb’s review on Apple Music. First, why call it Post Rock? Rock is alive and well, and this shit is nothing like rock. Post Music is more like it. As in, after music, you have noises from amps. I guess that could be Pre Music too. Oh well. Second, Trailblazers? Where have they been? Which way are they headed? How soon will they leave? Lastly, this sucks.
Post good more like!!
This was utter shit!!!!! A song over 20 minutes long that didn't do anything. A totally instrumental album and just boring music. This album is a stain on the credibility of this list. Whoever put the list together must be related to one of these geezers. Because nobody likes this. The peak position in the charts for this was 115th. Just to put that into perspective.The smurfs also released an album in 1996 called ‘the smurfs go pop’ and that peaked at number 2 and had 29 weeks in the top 40. Yet it doesn't appear on this list. If I recorded the noise I make from the toilet on a loop for 45 minutes I reckon it would make a better album.
This is not Tortoise, but Torture. 20 minutes song that is not good even as elevator music? The rest is just OK, sometimes, but nothing more. 1/10
I’m sure at the right venue with the right drugs this would be great.
I was excited to check out something by an artist I’d never heard of. Unfortunately this album sounds like it was made by people who never played music before and were just given a bunch of instruments to try out. Atrocious bass playing, random noodly guitar, percussion glitches that they couldn’t even be bothered to make in time, sound effects that sound like children just mashing on toy keyboards, arrangements that go nowhere forever and then just suddenly and unmusically change to something else entirely. Just terrible all around.
Seriously wtf. 1.33
Loved the first song on the album, unfortunately it really just dragged on from there
Great for sleep deprivation!
terrible
Genuinely, what was the point of this album? This was so boring.
A bad acid trip
WTF? I don't even know where to start... what the hell is Post-Rock? And, if that is a musical genre, what kind of genre is it? Google has only managed to confuse me more... Does "being experimental" mean that you are included in this musical journey? I thought the idea of having something that is good to listen to would be the main criteria... So, for now, having to sit through a 20+-minute intro song, which goes so far as making me wonder if my sound-system is broken around minute 14:04, really makes me dislike Tortoise. Maybe my second listening of the album will make me change my mind... Okay, second listening, and my thought has now shifted to "okay, so it's several styles of music being created by instruments that aren't standard for those styles. Still not liking it.
Not a huge fan of nothing but bland instrumental.
I actually checked to make sure my speakers were working. When I realized they were I didn’t understand why I was made to listen to someone experimenting with Apple’s Garage Band.
Boring
Millions Now Living Will Never Die falls short of expectations, presenting itself as a disjointed and tedious listening experience. The album opens with a slow and uneventful start, lacking the engaging hooks or rhythms to captivate from the beginning. Throughout its duration, the tracks often meander aimlessly, giving the impression of a band warming up rather than delivering cohesive musical compositions. The extended instrumental passages, while showcasing technical proficiency, fail to sustain interest and feel indulgent. Overall, this album may disappoint listeners seeking structured and engaging music, offering little beyond its experimental aspirations. NUMBER OF BANGERS - 0 STAND OUT TRACK - None
I don’t get it. Maybe more THC would help me get it…?
Big fan of tortoises, even bigger fan of songs that have words in them
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Didn't find anythin interesting here.
tremendo
There is a place for minimalist music and a place for ambient music. It's not really to my taste anymore although it does relax my brain to have something like this on in the background while I'm doing something else. But if that's the reason for making an album, you might as well just create an algorithm to produce this kind of music. Western music is characterized by tension and release. there wasn't much of that here. That is perhaps by design, but there are other ways to disrupt Western music conventions. I'm not sure this band was trying to do that, although it appears they were trying to do something. What that is is unknown to me, but I hope it made them happy. They call it “post-rock” because it uses rock instruments in new ways. But honestly I’d rather listen to musicians use their instruments the way Tricot and Primus do. If you are going to break rock conventions and make a stylistic statement do it with virtuosity, not blandness.
Didn’t get it
Пошли нахуй козлы со своими 20-минутными песнями
I'm not totally opposed to instrumental music but this doesn't even build to any big moments that grab you. I guess it's in the list because it's influential in the post-rock genre but I didn't need to hear it and I'm not big on post-rock anyway
Just about made it through the first few song. Albums like this should not be on a list to listen to before you die…unless you want to die of boredom.
I can see where they got the band name from with that first song Would probably rather watch a tortoise race than listen to this album again...
How on earth has this album been included in the top 1000? Dross. 1/5
Forcing Alicia to listen to these on vacation. Her review: “Sounds like music from a coffee shop with a bunch of random noises mixed in”
Experimental Techno-Electronica. Not into it at all. Another 1
I did really try to listen to this. Made it about 1/3 of the way through, and I don't think I really enjoyed a single part of any song I heard.
Shit was ass
Hä?? Was bini am lose?? Nahh
scheiss isch nöd uf qobuz Djed meega lang ui. und s goht au öppe 3 minute bises in fahrt chunt. und au denn nur so halbe. oke s tönt als wer ich chli ufem rhodes am umedrucke. drums sind no cool aber meh. etz isch mega lang afoch sones synthi grüsch wo schneller und langsamer wird. nocher schnell afoch arpeggios mit bassmelodie und denn grüsch time. de david fänds worschinli banhbrechend oder son rotz. pftpft tschktschktshc diuuudiuuu. jetz machts taktwechsel tönt chli proggy? no nice. aber finds immerno insanely seicht. a survey. ahaaa das wörs?? sochli bass melodie?? whattt. the taut and tame isch au afoch ei weirdi melodie? boah gseht nochme 1 uus. dear grandma and grandma isch chli ambient sounds. wooow. along the banks of rivers het e melodie wenigstens.
Just sounded like a garage band noodling around for an hour jam session. Had some catchy bits, but way too long for what it was.
No idea how this shit made the list
Sounds like ambient piano music for bedtime.
Not a fan.
pra mim, hoje, é não kkk chatão
Too long and experimental for me to get into it
Gave me a headache. Not my cup of tea.
Pass. 1.5 stars.
ASMR album. Not sure why anyone would say that this is an album that everyone should hear before they die. MAYBE everyone should listen to it to help them get to sleep. 1/5
Random noise would be an improvement on this.
I simply was not built to enjoy instrumental prog rock. Get this out of here.
I am about to give up on this list.
I could of made this
Had a very strong and immediate emotional reaction to this album. None of it was positive. It varied between irritable and irate. I hope everybody associated with the chain of events that led me to listen to this album stops their toe.
wtf is this
dreadful
- I was super intrigued by the fact that I had never heard anything about those folks before, as well as by the interesting title of the album. - Huge disappointment. - This is supposed to sound creative and experimental, but for me it ended up being messy and annoying instead. - One of the few albums that I didn't manage to finish so far.
Tortoise is apt name for the band, the music is slow and plodding. Glass Museum is decent, but the opener Dejd isn’t and it’s 25 mins. Most won’t get through it 2.7/10
This isn't a rock album and it's boring as hell
Dreary nonsense. Like a shite Boards of Canada.
Instrumental - no lyrics
Boring
Why is this on the list
Not for me
I'd possibly find 1001 instrumental albums worth istening to before this one.
low-key, instrumental, nah
Saai
Self absorbed useless cacophony of sound. I want my time back. I want to give 0 stars
As far as jazz fusion goes this is quite disappointing. Thought my AirPods were bugging during the first track but was just the song
Noise
This is offensive to me
I felt like I was listening to an album that could have been a really good ambient album. But it sort of missed the mark and instead sounded like a bunch of miscellaneous sounds stitched together, rather than having any sort of cohesion
an ok listen Definitely need to be in the mood
It likely I'm just not educated enough in music to get this, but the top review talks about discovering keyboard samples on your cassio keyboard and that's all I can hear now
A survey. The taut and tame.
Ik mis de tekst. Het is saai. Daarnaast is 20 minuten erg lang voor een nummer. Je moet er maar van houden.
Never heard of Tortoise before today. Upon further research, it became clear as to why I hadn't heard of them. They are a "post rock" band. I was unsure of what the hell that meant, so I researched it a bit. From what I can gather, it is a genre that includes rock style guitars, which are overlaid with shitty electronica music. Fuck sakes, not more obscure electronica garbage... Yes, more electronica garbage. This stuff is perhaps one of the worst helpings of electronica that I've heard thus far. I don't hear the "rock guitar" part, what I hear is static, screeching noises, xylophones, and distorted bass notes...all mixed together in a big shitty mess...and that's just the first song. Also, the first song is....21 MINUTES LONG!!! Why?!? I spent this entire record waiting for something to happen....they had 43 minutes, and NOTHING DID....AT ALL.... Overall, a garbage record, made by a band that sounds like Walmart brand Tool meets up with a game show host. I will never listen to this trash again, and am beginning to wonder who the hell created this list? Obviously someone obsessed with electronica music and obscure British bands, because this has absolutely no reason to be on this list. Favorite song: Along the Banks of Rivers....I guess??? Least favorite songs: Djed, and the rest of this dumpster fire of a record. 1/5
Another album with a 20+ min song except this time it sounds like they've just slapped together a load of random sounds. Perhaps this was ground breaking in 1996 but it didn't hold up. I didn't even enjoy it as background music.
A colossal waste of time.
Se me hace bola(PSP) Me parece muy acertado el comentario, de hecho no aguante hasta el final (ONB)
why is the first song 20 minutes long? that’s all
I remember me and the guys playing random warm up riffs while we were tuning our kit up... but that was back when I was 15 at school... I never thought of putting an album together of those random riffs... and people would pay money for this! I just don't get it, yes it's easy listening, its just a random miriad of soft sounds, or put you to sleep sounds moreso, but wouldn't even come into my thoughts for a choice of listening.
Shite
It’s the kind of music you put on at a party when you want your guests to say “What the f$&k is this?”
I like lyrics in my music
Vaya M
What it sounded like to get a massage in 1996 without a happy ending.
First song bad/stressy. Other songs kinda background music-y.
Other than seeing the length of track one I have no idea here hope I enjoy it. The album starts with the song Djed it’s a few minutes short of being half of the entire album ( 21 minutes) it’s very off putting as it’s this really slow building instrumental which kinda lives and breathes throughout. Unlike other long songs I’ve herd on this it doesn’t have any mind blowing stand out moments,actually, the only way I would recommend it is maybe for like study being a really long instrumental. That’s still kinda what I think but then there is the second ten minutes it sounds much, much more interesting and is more a distinct track of it’s own , it’s a harder listen and not really “ study music” like the first half but it’s just better y know; then the third part around 14 minutes in is even harder to listen too stranger and so much more distinctive, I still don’t really like the track but I respect it. There are some other little bits at the end but not much to note. Next is glass museum it’s got a really interesting sound to it the song is mainly this sorta cool instrumental but breaks off intro distinct sections from time to time I still don’t really like instrumental tracks though. Now is the song A survey it’s much shorter but so dull in an album that I don’t really like already. Then it’s the taut and the tame which has this really cool tapping noise in the background kinda like a horse galloping to me. Then it goes in order for normal drums and electronic sounds and just what a way to ruin a cool song. Dear grandma and grandpa is very short for this album it’s quite cool but nothing to change my thoughts on the album. The album end’s with along the banks of rivers it’s well boring to be blunt. The term post rock sounds so cool but when you know what it is it’s so so dull and I wouldn’t even get why anyone would want to make such generally boring music. It’s worse than my one 1/5 so far so I’ll have to give it that.
Nothing like starting an album off with a 20 minute long song. This was not for me...seemed like a glorified jam session for most songs
This is not something anyone really needs to listen to.
This is absolute torture.
Zzzzzzzz
I get it. I get it. I get it. You make experimental music, someone has to listen to it. Dear Grandma and Grandpa seems indulgent. I wonder if they broke out the bubly when they listened to it. Djed was OK for some parts, not OK for the most part. I've spent less time doing my taxes than the length of this song. How/where do you listen to this song? What's a situation where you want time to go on and on? The last 30 seconds of an NBA game? Yeah, it's like the last 800 hours of an NBA game, then. It should be broken down into 16 different songs because I don't know that any parts related to each other. Finally, this album, it seems, will never die.
Instrumentals are cool but not my style of music to listen to for fun.
1.5 i don't get it. its just a bunch of noise, like the band felt they needed to use eveyr sound they could think of. its too bad too cause in the middle of some of these songs there's good ideas but they never go anywhere and instead are replaced by something boring or trite.
Guess I’m not that familiar with “post rock” but what the fuck was that?
*weird noises *probably made around the time before djs so experimenting with new tech and sounds
Not a fan.
Not my thing at all
No sé qué decir.