Remedy

Skrillex font and naked people. something tells me, art will not be of paramount importance here. I’m expecting bombastic and repetitive dance music, but I’m ready to be shocked. Actually if you’re ready to be shocked, then it isn’t shocking. We’re getting to the bottom of some doublespeak riddles here today. Rendez-Vu - Horrible French appeals to me as a descendent of Acadian blood, but as a man with an IQ above 87, this kind of music does not. It’s not the worst dance song I’ve ever heard, aside from the autotuned male vocal jazz, but I’m not infuriated yet. Yo Yo - Will we be seeing any sweet yo-yo tricks as a visual accompaniment to this record? I can only hope. I cringed up into my own body with that opening. Then when the Korn vocals hit? Kill me.Or do I like this as a “so bad it’s good” type of record? Time will tell. Jump ‘N Shout - I remain mired in pirgatorial anguish. On one hand, this is an incredibly catchy, almost heavy, dance rhythm. On the other hand, it reminds me of people who are in their late 30’s and still go to nightclubs. What am I to do with such diametrically opposed feelings? If I had ever been to a nightclub, I would tell you that this song rips pretty good. Considering I am a white suburbanite at my desk job, I can only imagine the person who would sit and listen to this recreationally. U Can’t Stop Me - U Can’t See me, my time is now. When will John Cena’s debut record appear on this list? I genuinely think I might need it as a palate cleanser after this. While this woman may have 16 seconds, I have what appears to be like 45 more minutes of this to wade through. Jaxxalude - This is a great time to grab a drink of water, and maybe your fentanyl tester. Are you sure that you knew that dealer? Red Alert - The bass is fun, if not incredibly blown out. It sounds like if guitar hero was made for the original GameBoy. We’re again in obnoxious dance music land, but at least the grooves drive pretty hard. Jazzalude - That was it??? I was promised jazz. Always Be There - hey why is this album hanging out at the big cliff? Oh no it’s falling! Man, is it ever hurdling. Sneakalude - I want to go home. Not even DJ Skunk Burner can save us. Same Old Show - Don’t do that noise. Fax machines and forced moaning do not a good song make. Add in a European ambulance and we have finally achieved the ultimate hodgepodge of garbage that could only be enjoyable on near overdose levels of MDMA. Bingo Bango - I needed a Latin Mario Kart soundtrack in my life. See, if you believed that, you need to realize that there is a lot of misinformation on the internet. I hate this song. Gemilude - Buddy has been jacking it in the basement since birth? Thanks for that. Stop 4 Love - I rev up the engine and accelerate through the love. I stop for nobody UNLESS there are some nice ducks in the road. This is like that bittersweet symphony song without vocals. Horrific. Don’t Give Up - A sobering reminder to finish what I have started with this list expedition. There were some hard rhythms in this, it can’t be denied. It then devolved into the worst parts of this kind of music ad nauseum. I feel like a broken record with the electronic and dance genres. I am not the target audience for this. I believe the target audience is people who peaked young when they were peaking on experimental drugs in a sweaty barn. It’s not my fault that life stopped for you after that. In fact, I’m incredibly sad for you. At least you still have middle aged bigotry and records like “Remedy” to remind you of when you last felt something, and there was a faint whiff of hope in the air. For those of us with a current life and an at least somewhat hopeful future ahead, this record probably doesn’t move the needle. Unless you’re moving the needle off of this thing. Then it moves pretty quick. 0.5-1 HIGHLIGHTS: Nope.

It sounds like that sound we hear while we're drunk on tequila and ecstasy. I know this because the music doesn't stop. Even when the party's over, and you're struggling to survive a massive hangover. It keeps pounding in your head like tuts tuts tuts tuts tuts tuts tuts Bonus: Who had the incredible idea of ​​photographing an orgy and using it as the album cover?

bad

like hammering iron nails into my nutsackkk

Troppo per me. Se fossi stata in un altro modo avrei messo 2

Could barely make it halfway through each song before I had to skip.

Would not listen to this album again; however, “Bingo Bango” was enjoyable.

Nope.

This is not very good. Repetitive. Too long. Entirely bland and forgettable. Not sure how this is an album to hear before I die. This kind of music has been done better by others.

Lame

Zuhause, Heidenheim, Deutschland. Absolute Scheißmucke, Frechheit!

Insoportable. Prácticamente una hora de House repetitivo y sin una melodía memorable o digna de ser reseñada. Ya no sé si me he aburrido o que... Así de malo me ha parecido. 1/5

Didn’t like it.

The only song I enjoyed at all from this was Bingo Bango, and only because it brought sweet, sweet relief from that repetitive sample in the previous track, Same Old Show. Why would you do that to your listeners? Never again would I listen to this album.

I’ve learned through this project that I can’t stand techno/EDM

Not my tupperware of cereal

No

Not for me. Some odd sample choices.

Groupe inconnu. Aucun intérêt pour moi (trop répétitif, trop long et très ennuyeux), avec en plus un autotune très désagréable sur les voix (yo yo absolument affreux). Je ne suis pas allé au bout. =>1/5

God, I fucking LOATHED Basement Jaxx when they were on the scene. Nothing has changed in my many orbits of the sun since. This is woeful, dreadful, abysmal, mediocre and underwhelming synth dirge. Absolutely atrocious.

Any album where I have to skip a song because it upsets my dog gets a 1.

So dated in the worst 1999 way.

Torturous at times. I’m not a big fan of dance/electronica. Did not enjoy this.

1/5 I strongly dislike this type of electronic music.

Terrible.

i seem to be discovering that a lot of old electronic music sucks

Not my jam.

No thanks. Not worth a second listen or effort to see if it will “grow” on me. Feels like Miami Beach…I appreciate music like this has its place but that place is somewhere else. 1/5

I made it half way through the first track and then felt an overwhelming urge to read a book.

I severely did not care about this album

Not my genre at all

música eletrônica bem da fraquinha

Ikke min type musikk. Prøvde å være åpen og mottakelig, men opplever albumet som musikalsk svakt.

A fascinatingly dull album.

I tried. Wish I could none stars. Not meaning it’s bad I’m just not a good judge with this genre.

Not good

Spent the morning getting the house ready for a Eurovision party and this seems randomly like the only occasion this album is the perfect one to have on. Eurotrash errands music.

There MAY be one good song on here.

The only way I can make it through this album is by writing this while I listen. This sucks so much. It's boring and annoying, it's like being trapped in an endless conversation that just won't stop in a airless broken elevator. A genuine chore to listen to. And it's not just because I generally don't like dance music, I gave MIA's Arular 5/5. The penultimate track Don't Give Up is the closest thing this has to a saving grace, but it's too little too late, and no forgiveness is earned. I only finished the album out of spite. I win, you lose basement jaxx.

Pra quem gosta deve ser muito bom!

1 so chaotic

This was like a showcase of all the things I dislike about the electronic/DJ/90s party music genre.

There are musicians that can help me appreciate this genre more. Basement Jaxx ain’t one of them.

This is an album I need to listen to before I die?

I listened to like 6 seconds of this — reminds me of the music that would be playing during a nightclub scene in John Wick or Blade.

Not awful, just bland dance music that I can’t imagine ever wanting to listen too. The sort of music that when AI produces it nobody will notice the missing human element as there’s almost none there to begin with. Whoever wrote the list could’ve had a bit more bias towards actual music over vapid electro jingles, despite feeling the need to be all things to all people, and ending up with a list that is equal parts brilliant diamonds and polished turds.

I don’t understand how ANY drum and bass music makes the list. It’s not music. Sounded slightly better than some.

Interesting in some moments, but generally I was tired with the album.

Rating: 1/5 | Favorite Track: Red Alert --- I found this album to be obnoxious and almost unlistenable. It sounded like the shitty music you'd hear at a college frat party. Will never listen to any of these tracks again.

Definitely not a genre for me. I’ve always hated going out to clubs or overcrowded bars - this music reminds me of that. Red Alert rings a bell… But I would never put this album on freely

Cold; mechanical; alienartinng

No. 0.5/5

Nope. Not for me. Too repetitive an just, yuck.

This album feels MUCH longer than it was. I keep checking it like I check the microwave and I'm on track 3. Determined to listen to the whole thing, I go back to work and keep it playing. Check again - track 4. Wait a bit, check again - still track 4. Is this some kind of joke? Is there a digital lock groove of some kind? I decide to go take a shit and come back. I could still hear it faintly in the background, so I don't consider this abandoning my daily assignment. I'm a slow pooper. I really like to take my time and enjoy the opportunity. Also, for my birthday last year my wife bought me one of those robot toilets that has a heated seat, sprays water in your butt and then blows on it. LIFE CHANGING. If this review was for the robot toilet and not this album, it would get 5 stars, no question. Anyway, I do my business, go back to my computer. TRACK 6??!?! Are you kidding? This lady in the song is telling me not to panic and that "the music keeps on playing all day long" and I wonder if I mixed that edible in with my morning vitamins by accident. Is there mold in my bathroom? A carbon monoxide leak in my house? Because I have lost all sense of time, and this album absolutely will NOT end so I must be hallucinating or slowly being poisoned. If Dante heard this album when he was writing the Divine Comedy he would have invented another layer of hell where this album just plays through once, but it seems like it is for eternity. Maybe as a punishment for people who leave 1 star ratings for Otis Redding or Buzzcocks records? *UPDATE* It's been what seems like years. I need a shave desperately and my clothing is beginning to stink. I've soiled myself and my stomach is screaming with hunger. My wife left me days ago without a note, just a shouted "Fuck you, fuck your robot toilet and fuck this album!" as she stormed out the door, seemingly never to return. My cat has stopped meowing at me and is now looking at me with appetite in his eyes, slowing licking his lips. I fear I am not long for this world, but still I persist. I look at the screen. I am on track 8, "Always Be There", which is appropriate, because it does feel like this album will always be there. I, unfortunately, will not be, and I feel the weakness take over as I desperately try to finish this review and warn others not to start this alb.........................

I'm running out of ways to creatively express the strength of my disdain for this kind of mind numbing, irritating, insipid electronic slop, but that doesn't mean I'll stop trying!

I felt like I was trapped in an 1980’s hair salon nightmare.

This is a 1/5. This music sucks. It's not the worst I've heard as in I think the artists were trying to make something cohesive and listenable, but it's still shit. Just not as bas as some of the other shit I've heard from this list.

It’s just bad dance music. Not a massive fan of this type of music in general, but this sounds quite generic to my untrained ears!

started and decided to listen to enjoyable music instead

I tried

- puh schon überwiegend nervig

Absolute shite.

Basement Joke! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6HR0-1wsJw

Nope.

My brain hurts

This was terrible. I felt like I was stuck in Abercrombie or Forever 21.

Nope, not for me, sorry.

Electronic music. Not with it. A lot of repetitive beat which drives me nuts. I skipped most tracks.

Kinda annoying. It made me cringe a bit. There is old electronic music that aged well. This ain't it. And even for that period it's not good.

Boring...

Got through about half of it before giving up out of boredom. It's probably fine for what it is, but I found it tedious. 1.4

Not my cup of tea.

I would never inclued an album like this in a top whatever list. Its ok but just nonsense

House music. Not my thing.

Эмм... И я люблю электронную музыку, но это не оно. Моё отношение к этой группе всегда было натянутым. Даже прог-хаус/транс-ремиксы на песни этой группы звучали странным образом не... для меня. Час монотонного фанк-хауса. Который я не могу воспринимать, зная наверняка, что этот альбом сто процентов занимает место большой классики электронной музыки из 90-ых или начала 00-ых. Лучшая песня - Always Be There.

Annoying noise

Unessential

Why is there so much bad electronica on this list? This is the kind of shit that gets bad parodies made of it

Fuck off.

Einfach nur Öde! Stoff für die Generation Red Bull! Mist!

Yet another album that doesn't interest me at all. Maybe dance isn't a genre for me either. I like listening to techno or trance. I have no problem with repetitive music. But this simple stomping produced by a rhythm machine is boring. After a few tracks, I finished the whole thing. 1/5

This sounds like the sort of terrible music played too loud in over-expensive bars I used to have to go to with friends back in my single days. I hated it then and hate it now. Or it's just a set of incidental music stings from TV shows. Either way, it's not something I'd care to listen to again.

Awful throughout, even if I only listened to a little of each track.

Truly terrible electronica. Just so predicatable and tedious. The sort of shit a club plays at 9pm when no one is in yet. 1 because thats as low as you can go.

I am not a fan of EDM. I would never just sit and listen to it. Is it bad? It is what it is and it is not for me. I will never listen to this again.

Truly terrible 90s electronica

that was painful to listen to. I realise it is an important album for electronic music, but there is a lot of electronic music that stands head and shoulders above this. Nothing was even remotely interesting

Alleen red alert beetje wat, rest echt herrie

Not for me 1/5

Awful!!!!

Ugh

English electronic garbage with a hideous album cover? I know just what to do with you! Into the 1-star bun you go, piss off you wankers.

Una tortura.

Album 486 of 1001 Basement Jaxx - Remedy Rating : 1.75 / 5 More electronica BS but this one had a little funk flair which made it more palatable.

I can’t believe this appeared on a list for me. Just a lot of what made Disco insufferable. This album is definitely insufferable.

Club music without much merit. I couldn't listen to all of it.

This doesn't belong on this list. They have other albums with more hits. At the end of the album is a song called don't give up, which felt like it was taunting me that I was still listening it and couldn't turn it off. Also there is a song with random moaning. Screw this album, never want to hear this again.

Entertaining for sure but straight ass!

Two songs in and I'm waiting for the sweet release of death. Electronic music is the devil's work, and I'm not even religious. Boo to all of this honestly.

Day176 - they gotta throw in a turd to make you appreciate the good music

Sounds like the music they played at visible changes alongside videos of fashion shows in the 90s

It's one of those bands that has a great name, but whose songs inevitably disappoint and are never enjoyable.

Ugh. Why?

Strange, not really something I enjoyed.

I wasn't a huge fan of this - in general I don't think I really like house music, and I found the beeps irritating.

Maybe 2 tolerable songs. Otherwise unlistenable.

Could not finish this

Fantastic album cover for some utterly shitty songs featuring earworm beats and antiquated digitized voices. Amazingly, humans created techno. I'm sure ChatGPT could do better at this point. It's over — nobody listens to techno!

NO

100% synthetic, utterly uninteresting, fully forgettable and borderline worthless, even allowing for one's complete apathy toward the genre.

Thank goodness this album reminds me on every track that I am, in fact, listening to Basement Jaxx. I might wake up from the stupor this album put me into and wonder who I'm actually still listening to. This is electronic muzak. This is everything electronic music shouldn't be. There is not one moment where I felt the joy of discovery, or that I was listening to something innovative. Entirely pedestrian. And what is even happening with that 'yo yo yo yo-yo-y-yo-y-y-yo' song? How can you listen to that and believe it belongs in someone elses ears?

I used to quite like the nineties thing of taking a sample from a known (or not so known) pre-existing track and looping it to death while adding in some other random bits. But now that approach sounds a) dated and b) not very original. This is a nineties pop record, just one that, for me, hasn't aged that well. I didn't mind 'Jump n' Shout' - at least it had an original vocal on it. I know it's not on here, but I always thought 'Where's Your Head At? ' was Chemical Bros - all of this djs-turned-musician stuff put out at the time does all start to sound the same after a few spins.

Basement Jaxx was the worst gig I ever went to. A friend persuaded me to go with them, around 50 miles away, and I was sucked into the whole "oh yeah, Basement Jaxx are cool! Why not!" thing. I was only mainly familiar with Red Alert and Wheres Your Head At. But everything, including those tracks, is dull, dire, soulless, phony. Everyone at the gig was so bored and distracted, drinking, it was more like a room of noisy morons with some lame DJs barely audible on the side. This album is so boring and uninspired. I just can't imagine anyone listened to it more than twice, or had it as a favourite album. It feels like a cynical marketing ploy aimed at the weird British class-derived-inadequacy thing of identifying with bands like Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack as currency to "be cool". People would namedrop Basement Jaxx if asked about favourite bands, even if they couldn't name a single track outside of the singles. I'm shocked/disappointed it's actually on the list. There is no cultural legacy or onward influence here to explore, it's just absolute shit.

Nope

Not quite my tempo

I can appreciate this album being unique. I haven't been exposed to this style of music before. The further into the album, the better it gets but that's not saying much as the start made my expectations set as low as possible.

👎🏻

Basement jazz is a no

One doesn't care about this record, because there's nothing to care about here.

not my favorite type of house. maybe if i was high out of my mind in some warehouse in a sketchy part of town i would vibe with it, but sober and in my room it's bleh.

This was bad house music at the time. It’s even worse now.

Hard pass.

Just bad electronic. There are worse 1s but this is annoying and repetitive for way too long

No me gustó. Es música electrónica de la transición al nuevo siglo. Pero bueno, parte de la historia de la música, supongo.

I hated every minute of listening to this. Just awful.

Why, just why is this one of the top albums? I knew it was over when Spotify flipped to a Fatboy Slim song, and it was actually good. Hard pass.

This sort of stuff leaves me cold!

House. But bad.

Was not bothered by this at all, was a waste of time

So fucking awful only got through two songs

God this album is terrible. The only redeeming song is Red Alert. At the end of Same Old Show you can hear an ambulance, which is the artists subtle way of telling you that you'll die by the end of the record and you'll need an ambulance to pick you up

Less than 1

Trashy electronic music. Hated every second I listened to until I decided to stop midway and relieve my ears.

Not my cup of tea

p851. 1999. 1.5 stars Average electronic dance album with zero redeeming features. Background music for every sticky carpeted backstreet student club. Bonus point for Red Alert.

Spotify for some reason couldn’t play all of the songs on this album and I really wasn’t mad about it being over faster.

Monotonous and annoying. Gave me a headache.

I could not finish this. What a waste of a slot my God. Trash. The anti-Pet Sounds if you will.

This album sucks. There's nothing redeeming about it. This is one of those albums you just have to power through.

Dum tst dum tst dum tst Tst dum tst dum tst dum Dum dum tst dum dum tst

Rubbish. I’m beginning to have serious doubts in this list.

This is definitively not a Sunday morning album (unless you're still awake at 4am from the previous night). I'm listening to this on a Sunday morning (at 10am with my coffee). It's not quite matching the vibe unfortunately. I certainly was never in a Brixton nightclub in the late '90s, but I imagine it probably sounded something like this. It's not my thing, but there's probably a time and place where it would work. For a positive, I liked the little interludes between some of the songs. Update: I listened to the second half while going for a run, it was a little better that way. Not much though. Favorite song: Stop 4 Love Other: Red Alert 11/19/23

Remember that episode of Friends where Ross plays his “sound” on the keyboard and it’s just a bunch of random sound effects? It’s like that, but not funny and way worse. They should have named it 1001 Albums that make you want to die.

Clanging of spoons on a metal countertop. Horrific.

When this first came up, I listened to 30 seconds of it and couldn't be arsed. Second attempt, I'm struggling to understand why it made the 1001 list, must be quotas for genres. Certain Basement Jaxx tracks (like Red Alert) are great at the right place at the right time; parties, nightclubs... but this, as an "album", nah!

NO

not a huge fan, but then again edm has never really been my thing

Yuck

Yeah this is a no for me Unenergetic club music.

Why do all the electronic albums have to be from the 90s. The style of club techno made the list but I don’t think every electronic album has to be the same kind. This one is alright it’s fun but it feels like a daft punk knock off and tries to be the sound of a sweaty club. Overall it’s not for me and I didn’t care for it. 3.6/10

Hard pass.

The first few songs were really painful. The rest were standard cheesy dance tunes.

Techno - not very good - would not recommend

This is the kind of music they play at the vampire clubs when the DJ who usually plays shitty industrial metal has the night off. I can't listen to this without thinking of dominatrixxx enthusiasts dressed in strap leather grinding on one another in some seedy abandoned warehouse turned club for the night. It just feels gross to listen to and I can't find any redeemable qualities to this. It's repetitive cliche house music nonsense that I don't think I could enjoy even if I was high out of my mind on molly.

This was just weird as heck. I don’t know why we are getting a million weird albums in a row. It’s WEIRD.

Never sure what or how I feel about albums like this. I'll listen closely for a minute and be impressed by the meticulous production and transfixed by the beat. Then another few minutes go by and I'm bored and it goes downhill from there. Not to diminish the effort because I know what it takes/took, but there are no *songs* here - just continuous beats (at best) with no push/pull or resolution. Reading an excerpt from an interview with them they stated that they wanted to make dance music that wasn't devoid of feeling and less robotic. They failed miserably. I felt progressively less-generous the further this album went on and if I felt bad slandering this effort ~5 tracks in, by track 8 I was just pissed. TL;DR: This is maybe ok fine background music for playing video games while eating a bag of chips. I am not playing video games and I am out of snacks. 3/10 1 star.

Wut

This was Jaxxed up not sure what I was listening to was very very bad not even music. .1/5

I listened to three or four songs and knew this wasn't getting any better and stopped. This was very annoying. 0.5/5

With overwhelming evidence, it seems clear that the author of this list is a male born in the early-to-mid 70's, putting his formative musical years squarely in the 1990's. I can think of no other reason for the overrepresentation of 90's techno/ club/ dance records. I understand finding room for Dee-Lite and Ray of Light and some others but he needs to cool it. Especially when it comes to this steaming pile by Basement Jaxx. Dull beats, unimaginative and heavy-handed use of auto-tune lyrics. Nothing we haven't heard before 1000 times. No need at all to hear it, no need for it to be on the list. Zero stars, if it were possible.

Absolutely not

No thanks

This can't be real

Sounds like if Zimos from Saints Row made an album. Terrible.

dafuq

this was fucking shitty

No. No, there's no need for this to be on the list. There's no need for this to BE, in fact. Useless, garbage, boots-and-cats noise. I'd like my hour back, please.

Annoying

Not. For. Me. At all.

This was repetitive, boring and left me cold. Yet another "WTF were the authors thinking when they added this album to the list"? I can think of many other dance oriented albums that should have been on the list instead of this.

Skit

I'll take Red Alert and leave the rest, thanks. There's a reason we don't consume dance music in album form. Especially when it's this dated. If I was on enough drugs to make this hit right, I'd rather be listening to something more silky and fresh anyway.

I remember when this came out. The album art was pretty controversial. Anyway, the music is weird house music. It's too random to be good. I agree with AV Club. It's not revolutionary. It's just meh.

Not for me

beurk

No thanks....not a fan of electronica

did not like

Unerträglich. Braucht keiner.

There is no such thing as good house music, but if there was..... This would still be bad house music.

J'ai passé un très mauvais moment.

beurk

I don't even know what genre this album would be. These songs don't have have any distinctive qualities, good or bad. One step above elevator music.

90s electronic/dance music. Nooope

Awful

not aging well.

Not for me

Not my type of music and nothing grabbed me in the first few songs.

Non lo so. Questa per me è musica da sottofondo. Nessuna traccia mi è davvero rimasta in testa. Non posso dire che mi fa schifo, ma, forse peggio, non mi ha lasciato proprio niente.

There are a few salvageable loops, but mostly a car wreck for me.

Boring dance music. You probably have to be on drugs to get it.

not my cup of tea

90s techno. not for me

Ned so geil 1

Awful. 2/10

I can't listen to this.

might have been good when it came out, but for me now it's completely boring

I hate electronic music. It started terrible, later it was a little more tolerable but that didn't change the first impression.

These albums just dont age well.

I love this album! I got this when it came out and I’m still listening to some of these songs now. Amazing.