Connected

Sometimes, the page refreshes and you can only think “WTF”. People were laughing at these one hit wonders 30 years ago and they don’t sound any better now.

First listen

dreary, mechanical

This just sounds like that really cliche pop electronica popular in the 90s, where there is a fusion of jazz and world music over a breakbeat. This one is particularly British, with some Caribbean affectation in the voice, like Snow meets Moby. Every song sounds like the same gimmick and it's forgettable.

It’s like if the Sopranos theme just kept going.

Wish they’d disconnected before making this album.

Didn't like back in the 90s. Not hoing to change my mind now. Voice gets on my nerves

It suffers from one of the 90s hip hop sins of having the beat carry on for way too long after the last verses, and the beats are way too basic to be doing that. The rapping is weak and instrumental breaks are bad. But hey, at least there's no skits. In the end, this was too boring to be on the list. There's nothing groundbreaking here and not worth you wasting your time on it

I remember this band when they came out... Hasn't aged well.

It's not been a great week for albums has it?

Incredibly dated. Every song feels like the same tempo and flow. Every song is a boring platitude.

Meh

Very bad

90s British combo of hip-hop, light funk, acid jazz, electronica kinda sound. The chill-out kind rather than the dance party kind. The bass and drums can get a nice funky groove going, supported by samples to fill out the music and casual vocals that are half sung and half kinda rapped (that I actually find a bit off putting). It’s smooth and laid-back rather than energetic and fun. But the songs never really go anywhere and just drag on, so its mostly boring and largely forgettable.

Nej. Inte alls sugen på detta idag.

My cat died this morning and the algorithm gives me this trash album :(

really shitty dance music. i've never even heard of this one, so I can't imagine it's that influential either... why's it here? anyway. I listened to three whole tunes before I could no longer supress the feeling of my time being painfully burned away in needless suffering. wretched shit for awful people to dance to.

hippie, fake-deep but at least its entertainingly bad. the most heinous inclusion on this list for me so far

"12 renditions of 'Bust a Move' but make them progressively worse" -Brit Hop Rickety Cricket

Meh. Not buying it as "influential".

I am at the borders of offended, maybe just checking into the hotel of irked, that they made me listen to this. The same drum machine beat, with really bad filler lyrics, between an occasionally okay hook on a few of the songs: super formulaic, dumb as a box of hair (and not in a good way), mediocre at best.

Generic and boring Honestly, I’d rather relisten to my last one star than this, so I guess I’ll give it one star too Pretty trash anyway

I feel like I just sat in JC Pennies for an hour. What a boring slog of an album, with no personality or unique qualities. Not good. 1/5

Typical 90's vibe but Ilincredibly boring. I had the sads the whole way through.

i think you have to be at minimum 35 to like this

Not more early 90s swagger music... Honestly how many albums on this list are this genre. It's boring!

listened to this and forgot all of it very quickly. Maybe harsh but didn't grab me at all

From time to time over the past 30 years I've had pieces of 'Connected' swimming around in my brain. It's a catchy song. It's also the most popular song on this album (on Amazon at least). But that song along with about 2 more seem to be what this album is really made of. The rest all sound like each other. And those songs are no reason to have this album on this list.

Sounds like Happy Mondays with their balls cut off Rating: 1.2

Not bad but not for me. 1/5

Langweilig 🥱

This is so naff. I know 1001 albums is a lot...but c'mon

I recognised Step It Up and almost gave this a higher rating, but thankfully remembered that just because you've heard a song before, that doesn't mean it's good. And this is pretty shit music.

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Strange album for me. I didn't hate it, but it got really boring and repetitive by the third track. Sounded very dated; I wouldn't have been surprised if this album was released 5 years earlier than when it was. Skippable and uninteresting

Ett album fullt av PES:s menymusik låter bättre i teorin än vad det var i verkligheten. Sångaren hade inte klarat första audition i Idol. Orkade inte lyssnade klart på en enda låt. Ändlös loop av britt babblar över gammelhouse.

This was absolute garbage. Not even worth discussing. On the other hand, this reminded me what a true 1 sounds like and is making me reassess the 2 I gave the velvet underground yesterday. Id like to change that score to a 3 please.

Boringgggg but cool production.

literally who likes this

Got old real quick

It’s the nonsense like this that makes me question this project

2 same downfalls of all elecronica albums

Boring as all hell. The vocals and lyrics aren’t capturing or energizing at all, and don’t prompt any sort of emotion or enjoyment from me. Maybe this album was a transitory moment in pop culture, but it surely doesn’t age well.

No

Blah. Same beats over and over. Probably one of those seminal records that broke new ground but that ground is dry and monotone.

Hahahaha hahahaha hahaha hahahaha Rapper? Hip hop? No. Incorrect. They were kind of a shitter Happy Mondays weren't they? Did reasonably enjoy Ground Level because it wasn't one of the two songs that were played to annihilation everywhere. 42s in town would play one of the two without fail every single Friday night. They probably still do. I've heard worse records, and there's about 4 too many songs, but mainly why the hell am I listening to Stereo MCs in 2024.

no thanks!! meget irriterende album imho!

i got nothing out of this

UK acid jazz - need I say more?

Connected is a nice song. Everything else is at Ground Level without any Pressure and listening to it feels like listening All Night Long to one song, simply boring. At The End it's better to Fade Away and forget this Creation which feels like Chicken Shake to me.

Waar ik geregeld moeite mee heb bij 90s muziek, vooral die uit de UK, is dat de komst van de 808 en andere drummachines de muzikale lat wat lager legde. Op deze plaat is weinig écht muziek-gogme en fijnbesnaarde instrumentatie te vinden, maar de drumbeat gaat wel lekker. Daar kwamen een hoop acts wel mee weg. De opener is een prima song, maar daarmee verschiet de groep al z'n kruit al wel. Later hebben nummers als 'All Night Long' en 'Chicken Shake' echt wel een aanstekelijke groove, maar weten ze die geen vervolg te geven met andere interessante elementen. Een leeg omhulsel blijft het. 'Playing With Fire' sprak nog wel aan, al is dat waarschijnlijk vooral door de herkenning van de 'Monkey Man' sample van de Stones. Anyway, als je sample-based muziek zoekt, dan biedt het jaar 1992 natuurlijk talloze andere artiesten die wel degelijk muzikaal talent hebben. 5/10 Highlights: Connected

I recognize some of these songs from when I was younger (from movies and commercials). Not sure I would have thought to listen to it and not sure I will again. Not bad, just very much music of the time.

No

So hilarious when Brits attempt hip-hop. These assholes heard Public Enemy and made Muzak for The Gap

I thought this was awful in the 90s and I think it's even worse now. 70s odd years of popular music and this is in the top 1001 albums? I find that really hard to believe.

First I stumble, then I fall. Toddler triage trip hop from Britain. A stale tea leaf. Also, an hour long? If only ‘Pump up the Volume’ never existed, there may have been a place for whatever this is. 1/5

Bored throughout.

An hour of 4 minute songs consisting of 16 bar loops. Boring and obnoxious

Not a fan. Some sort of messed up hiphop that is not doing it at all.

Bitte kein HipHop mehr. Das nervt.

The Tidal link sent me to an album of the same name by an outfit called The Foreign Exchange, so I listened to that as well. They were both equally shit.

I wasn’t massively into this at the time. It’s okay, nice enough, a bit samey and a bit dated sounding. I don’t really think it should be on this list though. The Stereo MCs were sort of a one or two hit wonder, weren’t they? It makes me wonder if you could knock a few albums off this list and cover the essential songs by including a “NOW that’s what I call nineties hits!” album. And of course that would also have “Saturday Night” by Whigfield on it. (I’m assuming Whigfield’s album didn’t make the list!?) One star seems a bit harsh. It’s not that I hate it. It’s just I don’t plan to listen to it again. I got bored about four songs in.

Dance music for a Mommy and Me class. Blah.

Very 90s, bit boring.

Vuoden 1992 uusin lisäys hip hoppeiluun tässä ja nyt. Ei mitään yllätyksiä. Helpoin 1/5 heh Löytyy siis myös ne asiat ja pökäleet, jotka osoittautuivat huonoiksi lisäyksiksi. All night long biisistä hieno sample lahja eino antiwäkille heh Then.. Creation jysäyttää vaivallaan.. Holy moly song jaah noh rumpu soolo jaah noh... The end lopettaa albumin harmiillisen hyvin. Kaksi yritteliäintä biisiä ovat albumin lopussa.

You shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but this one, you probably can.

Not good

Beats were mediocre and it only got worse when the guy started “rapping” over them.

I don't know if they are bad at rapping if they are bad at sampling, or if they are bad at making music. The only thing I know is that this is a bad album.

Could have done without listening to this album. Pretty terrible.

Good lord. In what world is this possibly up for consideration for the 1001 albums you must hear? If it was the 1001 best albums of 1992, Stereo MCs’ Connected would have no business being in the list. I gave each track a minute and it was the biggest waste of time in my life. I’ve given one star and this album is much worse than those.

Boring gg

Generic, nothing to say, ladish, dated. Boring music seemingly made just for the sake of it. The worst of the 90s. The best you can say about this album is that it helped flog a few mobile phones. Rating: 1/5 Playlist track: Connected Date listened: 12/08/23

The first song is pretty cool and could be the part of a 3 or 4 star album easy. The music if it were the soundtrack to a heist movie with a 90's house vibe could be a 4 or a 5. However, the rapping is awful - the cadence, the silly rhymes, the lack of content. It drags the whole thing down.

Vibes but not much else. Not enjoyable, won’t be revisiting.

Wrong list

I didn't listen it

I did not like it

It's the little things, like this album being included on this list that make me question reality. What are we doing here? Let's all aim a bit higher next time.

Helvete vad dåligt

Awful. Hated it when it came out and has got worse with time

pass

Boring

Sounds of its time. Not sure why its in the list rotation. The first tracks a bit of fun but everything past that points a bit meh and forgettable.

Not a fan

Extremely forgettable, an hour after hearing this I forgot I had listened to it. I guess technically it’s hip hop, but it’s more like rapping over techno beats. And surprise, it’s British, so it’s taking a precious slot in the hip hop genre over so many more deserving. We had another techno album not too long ago, “jungle” was the genre, this is like that with vocals. Not my style, don’t need it on the list. Favorite tracks: Pressure, Creation. Album art: Really enjoy the colors and art here, even if the pic in the middle of it all is painfully ‘90s. 1.5/5

Nameless UK techno/rap/funk/whatever. I was bored before the first song even finished, and it goes for an hour (because of course it does). 1/5.

Not bad, but not for me.

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Preachy as shit, woke before woke was a thing

Really awful, could not listen the whole thing.

Super generic