Sincere

I didn't expect to like this. My first reaction was thinking it was incredible boring and tedious, but now I can stand it way more. However, I keep thinking that the album can get a bit mind-numbing. Some of the longest cuts would benefit from a shorter duration, specially the ones that continue on repeating the same melodies without adding anything, like 'You're Mine'. What I did like about the record are some of the eerie atmosphere aspects. Songs like 'Attitude' and 'Bandelero Desperado' have this very particular and creepy sense that has me feeling like I'm in some sort of abandoned civilization. I did also appreciate the nice singing and some of the electronic melodies. Nevertheless, this album stills suffers a lot from being very lengthy and repetitive.

[6/10]

Until Crazy Love (which sounds like Teardrops by Womack & Womack), there wasn't anything of real distinction beyond the standard drum beat. After that there seemed to be more variety, like a bit of Spanish guitar, ambient etc, but aren't strong enough for me. Elisabeth Troy's vocals are good.

MJ Cole isn't for me, Elizabeth Troy has a beautiful voice. Occasional bits I thought sounded OK, I see was the highlight, some of the more ambient meandering keyboard parts to tracks or bits where the beat picks up and, then it just turns into more garage. Way too long.

Very influential. Dated for sure. I do quite like it though. UK garage memories. Low 3

Not my thing

There is more than one moment of genius on this record, where I can see exactly what others see in it. For me though these are often swathed in vocals that are not my flavour and interspersed with awkward transitions. More bad than good but an interesting listen nonetheless.

Today’s album includes two of my favourite garage tracks if not two of my favourite dance tracks full stop, I have it on Cd and spin it occasionally but it’s a long record that doesn’t work in album format for me, 3/5

It honestly sounds like a shopping mall clothing store. Not bad, per se, but not memorable. And I know of some eletronic artists of the same vibe that delivered better songs and feels. It's an album. Ok, but not really good.

3.5 brunch n bass ;) probably a lil over long

Very chill. Dreamy and atmospheric, this was a good listen.

I dunno tbh. And I mean that sincerely

hard to say... it was most certainly music, that i can confirm

Wasn't my preferred genre to listen to. Was not made for me, but was fine for background music while doing other things etc

A pleasant surprise and a great mix of styles, but why is it so long?

The album cover looks like a magazine advert for Pandora, and the music is pretty much just bollocks. I defy anyone to tell one track from another if you removed any vocals - they are all so repetitive, and non-distinctive, and the whole thing is so, so long. Not at all good.

Tää kuulosti enemmän alkuun sellaiselta triphop/downbeatlevyltä josta voisin tykkää, mutta ehkä ylimittaisuus vähän söi tätä. 3/5

Ihan chilliä tavallaan, mut kaks tuntia on about tunti ja vartti liikaa tätä. 2/5

Ein stilvolles UK-Garage-Debüt mit eleganter Produktion und souligen Vocals. Tracks wie „Sincere“ und „Crazy Love“ glänzen, doch das Album verliert sich stellenweise in Länge und gleichförmigen Beats. Technisch stark, emotional aber nicht durchgehend packend. Solide, aber nicht überragend.

Might be the worst album on the list. It fucking tricks you into thinking it'll be something cool, then it beats that horse to death with it. I kkow the beats aren't exactly the same, but when I'm listening to this album I can't recall anything about the previous song. This shit gave me amnesia and gaslit me. I thought it would be getting good again with the "MJ FM Interlude", then thr album just does the most bland shit imaginable the rest of the way. I hate how well produced and mastered this is, because it's a waste of talent. This album is so samey it almost seems as if you aren't even listening to anything. I can't remeber shit about this and I just listened to it

1/5. I get why this is here but dang what a wild choice. Like compared to the other drum & bass albums on here, this is by far the worst, and there were some not great ones. The vocals feel like an after thought, sampled and mixed after a producer said that this album will only work with lyrics because that's what the audience wants. There are some unique sounds thrown in with the beat but after some time, the vocals become so overbearing it's just too much. I want to give every album a chance and I did listen to the whole thing but this was not it unfortunately. Best Song: MJ FM Interlude because it is the shortest "song" on here, Rough Out Here was okay too

I liked this album. Easy listen. I will add this to my music rotation.

3.6

Ei lähtenyt jotenkin kyllä nyt yhtään. Taustameteliksi korkeintaan.

Juu ei, ei mene. Vaikka elektronisesta musasta tykkään, niin tämä on paskaa :D Ei jaksanut edes loppuun asti kuunnella.

En jaksanu kyllä kokonaan kuunnella, mutta tällästä voisin kuvitella soivan taustalla jossain vaatekaupassa tms. Ei iskenyt

Sopivaa musiikkia työnteon taustalle, mutta eipä jäänyt yksikään biisi mieleen kuitenkaan.

NOJOO. Ei tästä ihan hirveästi saanut otetta. Ajoittain semi-erikoista poppista ja ajoittain ihan hyvää jumputusta. Kai tää on joku brittien elektro-skenen alalajin esittely. Ei mahottomia tunnetiloja herättänyt suuntaan tai toiseen.

Ei pysty... liian hapokasta.

Jos ei musiikin ymmärrys riittänyt Count Basien jatseihin, niin vielä vähemmän ne riittää tähän. Aivan hirveää paskaa omaan korvaan. Monotonista, geneeristä, puuduttavaa, itseään toistavaa, tylsää ja ihan ilman mitään koukkuja olevaa kuraa. Täytyy kyllä tunnustaa että kakkoslevy jäi kuuntelematta. Miksi helvetissä kenenkään ihmisen pitäisi tätä kuunnella? Mulla on yksi kaveri joka ei osaa soittaa mitään instrumenttia, mutta se tekee Youtubeen ilmeisesti tekoälyn avustamana "biisejä". Sekin on parempaa kun tämä paska. Oikeasti ärsyttää aika paljon, että tuli tähän tuubaan tuhlattua aikaa.

Classic

Not my thing. Did not enjoy.

Really fun album that reminds me of my younger years at raves, when electronic music like this was really getting popular in the States. It's a really nice vibe throughout this record and evokes positivity and good times. Was a bit caught by surprise when I saw one of my favorite producers, Dilla (Jay Dee) featured on a track - dope!

This is very generic. Which surprised me since I decided to explore the double album version of this album. Shocker that there could be a double albums worth. I didn’t get through it. It’s just very generic techno

Decent

How is disposable background music like this considered a must listen?

This felt like being stuck in an unskippable ad for 2 hours. Why is it even on this list?

This is what a migraine sounds like. Each track tricks you into thinking it is achilled out mellow tune and then inevitably comes the annoying repetitive beat

Unbeknownst to most, I quite like a bit of UK garage, so I was familiar with the two hits on this album. “Crazy Love” and “Sincere” are the album’s only standouts, and were the only time I felt a need to give this album a modicum of my attention. The rest of the tracks were, being frank, utter shit. Quite why the creator of 1001 Albums felt this was worthy of inclusion will likely remain one of the great unsolved mysteries of our time.

In an effort to say something nice, Elizabeth Troy has nice voice but I kept expecting someone to yell "the crowd say bo selecta" at any moment. I thought this was shite and I resent the 1001 generator for making me listen to it. 1/5

Shit

Excellent

It's a flaming bag of ??

This is definitely the 1001 team saying to themselves - "shit, we don't have enough electronic-related albums on here. What's something big recently - Ah! 2-step." This is a pretty average 2-step release, for an already very niche sub-genre of UK Garage music. I think the second half of the album made me come around a little bit. Songs like Crazy Love and You're Mine actually used some good vocals / samples. While the album doesn't break through into anything stellar, it sits comfortably and doesn't bother you. Probably a little bit too long at almost 70 minutes but its a electronic release from the early 2000s.

No.

Waffling between a 2 and a 3 on this one. Ultimately it's getting a 2 as I got pretty bored with it towards the end. It's...fine, but not a genre I love and it didn't strike me as exceptional. Something this long needs more variety. 2.4

A really interesting combo of DnB, RnB and poppy vocals

Unseasoned chicken breast-ahh music

It almost sounds like the CD player is skipping

This is not a 5-star album. Probably not even 4. A strong 3. But this gets an extra star from me for all of the unmerited hate that electronic music gets in these ratings.

No thanks

Perfect vibes, though too long as an album. 4.

Decent electronic. Not the best all round but probably just about deserves a 3

This is awful, the same drum track for every song. This is the epitome of culturally irrelevant disposable music. No idea why this is even on the list.

It's a weird album. It's not bad but I wouldn't ever listen to it again.

I wouldn't say it's as bad as I've expected it to be, but it also... doesn't really belong on this list? I'd have been totally fine not listening to it before I die, really.

didn't listen to much, quite liked what I did listen to though

Album so good it has 4 lines of text about it on Wikipedia. Yes. 4 lines.

Someone else said it sounds like music from hotel bars, and that nails it. I don't mind it though, although two hours is waaaay too long. It's not as good as Madvillainy.

Nice one from 2000

Приятно. Весьма. Давно не слушал драм-н-бейс, аж захотелось еще повспоминать

The way this things been reviewed I thought it would end up sucking, but it was pretty viby ngl. I like the remixes on the second half more (listened to it on spotify, the deluxe album). No shot in hell I listen to the whole thing all the way thru again, but def gonna revisit some of these remixes.

Mee

ok ersts UK garage album uf dere liste bini gspannt. im intro geile crushed beat. goht kinda blöd de drop. tired games am afang checktmer nöd und denn chunt de rhodes shit und isch no cool. ui vocals. seeeehr afang 2000er haha. sehr minimalstisch au. kei harmonieinstrument. findi streng. ah endlich gitarre. seeeehr loungy au mit de trompete. mh. weisnö. gotta get an attitude jo. mh fühlt sich alles sehr noch filler vocals ah. afoch zum vocals haa. d beats sind recht eklektisch. no nice. aber song insgesamt uuuuhuer enervig. bandelero desperado macht en guy mega de uk rap innit. au nöd würkli spannend. crazy love au mega oversinging und de glich beat wie immer. d pizzicato strings macheds etz nöd sophisticated nume wells strings sind. bin bi sanctuary und ha würkli nume so semi freud. do you feel the vibes frogt sie. nai. i see isch au insane arsch holy shit. hasses. rough out here hassi wenigstens nöd. slum king hassi wieder bitz. recht nervig. aso nödmol de choppy beat de chan öpis. find d vocals nervig. he es 1 wiedermol. au schön. wenns will soulig sii isches z flach und wenns will dancey sii isches au z flach. instrumentierig gfallt mer nöd mit dumpfem bass mengmol akustischi giti und susch nöd viel. rhodes isch easy. vocals meistens würkli filler.

das cover gseht ja echt abnormal scheisse uus s klavier vom intro findi na cool uiii neii tired gsmes hani doch nachere gwöhnigsphasena easy gfunde, v.a. de refrain attitude insane scheisse, ich find das sooo schlecht galtereti beats desperado isch GOOFY ahaa das isch eis vode erstere uk garage albe wo sochli id charts cho sind? han denkt egal ich los "you're mine" au, au wenns nöd original uf de tracklist gsi isch aber DAMN isch das ass, fast scho repulsive es muss nöd jedes britische subsubsubgenre ih die schiss liste, guy wo die liste gmacht het do you feel the vibe? ja und ich bin nöd sonderlich begeisteret devoo binmer iwie unsicher, was d take home message vo sincere isch strung out gfalltmer na! sochli lofi mässig (d messlatte isch aber au tüf) staht re-rub für re-rubbish? joo ich chan jz nöd insane druff hate will sie chönnd wos mached (glaub?), nur leider isch das wos mached absolut nöd mis ding. weg dem wirds es 2 will ich so en liebe bin

I wasn’t sure what to expect with this album. But its cover kinda does a good job of giving you a heads up in hindsight. The cover (if u don’t know) is a shopping bag on fire sitting on a clear glass table. Which is funny cause it really sounds like elevated mall music. Like every single song on this album would be so at home inside a Calvin Klein or Hollister, etc. But don’t brush it off, it’s actually really really good. Like at first I was underwhelmed but by like the second half of the album I was totally sold on it. It’s great work or cleaning music. I can’t pretend like it blew me away or changed me life, but I liked it.

This was a really fun one. The first five tracks were definitely my favourites. Although the long run-time, it never felt like it was dragging or out of ideas. Just a really consistent project!

Some fun tracks with a lot of R&B and hip hop vocals on top. Mostly chill vibes. 3.5 going down.

Certified mid.

Throwaway dance music with affected vocal accents characterizing the sparse repetitive singing. What is the use case for this music? Making me regret I stayed out too late? I’m usually pretty positive, but this was long and bad.

Electronica? If the vocals were samples and were deployed sparingly, I could accept that classification. In my view this is not electronica and it gives it a bad name. If you want to listen to some good examples of this genre there are plenty. The Propellerheads’ one album decksdrumsandrockandroll, for example.

I can't find the last two songs on the album, so I'm going to assume they're very similar to the two songs that share their titles and let it go. Decent album. Probably best as background music. My favourite was Crazy Love.

Every month or so I have to ask: what is the British fascination with mid to bad electronica? I do not get it. You get one album here, and you've taken like 20. Influence 0. Quality 0. Hits 0. The thing is I don't hate this kind of music. It's just that you get the Chemical Brothers, Moby, and The Progidy. And that's it. 0

waste of nearly 2 hours

Some classic garage vibes late 90s

Dated, boring, and repetitive. A weird inclusion. Best song: Strung Out

Pleasant background British club music from the turn of the century, but irrelevant and not sure why it's on this list.

Asså va fan. Så sjuka val ibland. Fattar ingenting. Track listing verkar vara lite off jämfört med Wikipedia. Men i övrigt är det inget vidare. Sången över de rätt trista trummorna är bara jobbig. Går inte igång alls.

Nej usch, det här var inte bra och har verkligen inte åldrats väl. Plastigt, glättigt, själlöst och en sång som bara förstör. Alldeles för lång är den också. Svag tvåa.

Some nice smooth beats in a few songs but overall I didn't get pulled in to the album very much. Nothing stood out and I didn't get the feeling of wanting to relisten to anything.

It's a protypical EDM album. He found a good singer in Elisabeth Troy and made a record full of songs that fit the genre and mold. This isn't really my thing and I didn't find it good enough to "get" why it's on the list of 1001 albums you must hear before you die.

This is a re-rating for me; on my first time through I didn't hate it but didn't feel much of anything about it one way or the other either. After reading a defense of it I figured I'd give it another shot and I'm glad I did. My frame of reference for EDM is the Big Beat that was in vogue when I was a kid, so perhaps that's why I wasn't in a receptive place when I first heard this. Between the breakbeats and jazzy musical figures and British soul vocals (mostly from Elisabeth Troy) there's an odd sort of weightlessness to it. But don't mistake that for a lack of feeling or care; Troy's singing is consistently excellent (especially on the downbeat "I See"), the rhythms will fall into a lovely groove if you give them a chance, and Cole himself is obviously adept at creating the nightfeeling vibes he's going for. This is like a less noisy Basement Jaxx, with a bit of ambient mixed in; I think it works, and I appreciate the invitation to revisit it.

Two tracks in and I knew nothing was going to change. Early noughties garage dance with shitty vocals. This was gash.

Really awesome. Great beats great vocals

Great background music, terrible active listening.

Like this, nostalgic sound of radio from my youth.

Incredibly annoying.

Cool vibe and all but I don't need a whole album of dance music.

This album is a two pack of ass

Way too long. Nice vocals, repetitive, no hits. 2.2.

This was not great. Personal enjoyment: 2/5 Relevance to this list: 2/5

not very creative

I wasn't exactly excited to listen to this...well, surprise, I really liked this music. Much more than expected. Thanks for the awakening.

Never heard of her, listened to her music. Not bad. Like her voice. Songs are better when it’s just her singing.

Like the hole burned in the luxury-store bag featured on the album cover, this record left a gash in my brain for want of substance and really anything worth an ear's time. MJ Cole may produce, but he doesn't induce - that is, he doesn't stimulate or influence besides the brief moment of witless body moving. What's particularly awful, especially on the big tracks like 'Crazy Love,' 'I See,' and 'Sincere - Re-Cu'd,' is the posturing of some sort of R&B-suavity which not only doesn't exist but is nearly parodied, so generic and uninspired are the vocal performances. 'Rough Out Here' borders on a caricature of Curtis Mayfield while 'Slum King' is hackneyed take on reggae politics. 'Do you feel the vibes?' I do not. Bad for the body and the soul.

I thought the first two tracks were great. After that, it got boring and repetitive.

i know someone who is into uk garage and would rate this 5 stars but that someone isn't me

Blech

bumping.

this was actually a bop.

Better than expected. The vocals help with the monotony of the dance beats. I did save a track or 2 and that's nice. Nothing too crazy but a decent time

Way too long, didn't get through it. Feels weird that this is on the list at all? Checked the score, and it places the bottom 20 of albums reviewed on this site, which makes sense. It does sound like some cool PS2 era main menu music for a racing game or something, but 2 hours of that is pushing it

Not for me

Interesting! I'd never heard of MJ Cole before, and we ended up having a bit of a dance party because of this album!

One of those albums that’s fine, but once you’ve heard a couple of tracks you’ve heard it all.

Lidt generisk 00'er elektronisk, et par okay numre undervejs

I think MJ Cole may have been influenced by the 1080 Snowboarding soundtrack. I will put Sincere in a 'Music that could be in a videogame' playlist.

so, after listening to this, i looked up a few aggregate lists for the best ""electronic"" albums of 2000, because i was really curious to see what "lost out," so to speak, to this album. while this album did show up on some of these lists, it often sat somewhere in the top 20 (if it even appeared), and there were several albums by artists (who i am familiar with, and do have bias) ranked above this one who are conspicuously absent in the entirety of the 1001 list. don't get me wrong: i don't hate this album. it was alright, and, at times, enjoyable, but it was a one and done listen. coming to this when there's a dearth of ""electronica"" in this list makes me feel... bad!!! mr. dimey isn't the arbiter of good music, in spite of publishing a series of books on the matter, and i agree with the general consensus that this as a 1001 pick doesn't feel great. i think there are probably other ""electronica"" albums from 2000 that could've been on this list instead of sincere (if you want my pick to judge my taste, i would've put broadcast on here instead of mj cole). merits of being on a made-up and arbitrary music ranking list aside, i liked this album as a faux-nostalgia trip for the late 90s / early 00s (i say faux because i was not at the club circa 2000). i was trying to envision in my mind what the club circa 2000 would even look like when this was playing, and you know what? everyone in my mind's eye looked like they were having fun. all to say: this album was somewhat enjoyable (to me) on qualities that are ephemeral and very non-objective, and the overall project failed to impress me as being worthy of inclusion on the 1001 list. it compelled me to do research to try and understand how it got on this list to begin with, and i wound up listening (and relistening!!) to a few albums from 2000 that i liked way more than this. ah well!! such is life. highlights - sincere (re-cue'd)

Favorite Track: Crazy Love

Dance nonsense

060925 17:03 3.5

If a monkey was given 10 minutes to bang on a synthesizer and a trash can it would produce better music than every track on this album.

Det här var tamejfan något av det sämsta jag hört.

This one was not to my taste at all. Ot was just my luck to be given a 2 hour “deluxe” version. I found this repetitive and honestly rather irritating.

#689. Boring UK pop electronica. 2/5: meh

Let me set the scene: I woke up to the sound of rain, took a walk by the beach with heavy gloom 10/10

Alright techno/ trance (something along those lines). I've heard at least one if not more songs in various compilations.

why the hate? most of the lowly rated albums on this list are experimental or offensive. not this one though. it's just dance music? suppose it shouldn't be surprising when the term "electronica" is still being thrown around in the 2020s. nobody in the reviews section has any idea what to make of this. kinda shocking since the appeal is so simple. ignore the vocals and move yr body! rateyourmusic doesn't understand dance music? 1001albumsgenerator.com makes it look like a bunch of seasoned ravegoers. but i digress. this ain't that special. but it's not bad. the title track reminds me of Flat Beat by Mr Oizo which is pretty awesome (Lambs Anger should be on this list tbh). does kinda suffer the dance music album pitfall of being way too long and unfocused. but the actual music is generally pretty nice, if a little bit too tastefully clean, uk garage. and i like uk garage! deserves to be one of the 1001? Sweet Female Attitude and Sunship are both probably? (guessing as an American) more notable than MJ Cole, if you wanna include a 2-step album. which i think is a decent choice even if it does show some uk bias. i wouldn't pick this one though. not notable outside of its tiny niche deserves to be one of the bottom 20? mmmm. no.

Terrible and long

I listened to this in my car and as soon as the music started my upper buddy had an auto sway dance response. I have heard this before, maybe not the group but the sound. Then it hit me, while waiting in a room for my aesthetician to drain my bank account this is the music they play through out the practice and I sway out of irritation of the wait and boredom. With that said because the production of the album was done well I gave it 3* however it will only ever be listened in the waiting room, its not my jam.

Not good, repetitive and way too long!

Okay MJ Cole, going in completely blind - another pretty empty wiki. Definitely a different style of music. Songs I could hear played in a trendy clothing store or club. I do enjoy some 80/90s dance music and I can hear elements of this throughout, but thus far the beats and repetition aren’t really resonating with me. About halfway through the first disc I was over it… and was more and more eager for the end of the album as the 2hrs dragged on. Superficial lyrics, manufactured and repetitive beats, just enough to be annoying, but not enough to be catchy. I can appreciate electronica and remixes, but not this. Kept listening just to say I got through it. No stand outs and would not listen to again. I SINCEREly did not enjoy this album, but I tried.

beep boop beep this shit sucks ass

Been looking forward to seeing why everyone hates this. Off to a bad start based on artwork alone. Sub ministry of sound dogshit.

This is a great album, full of London Nightlife classics and clearly influential. Will listen to again.

Better than rap

Just not into the genre

eh. some good songs but most of it was really bland and forgettable

Хороший 2step альбом, бенгерів вистачає. Мені там де він в більш спокійний лаунж настрій переходить не те що не сподобалось, а скоріше хотілось продовження. Ще голос у вокалістки прям типовий UK, ліг як треба.

3.5 Під певний настрій така музика (юк гередж?) мені дуже заходить, а деякі пісні тут прям взагалі супер. Але не сподобався другий диск, де всілякі ремікси ітд ітп.

Just okay.

Some of the music in isolation was quite interesting, some of it was repetitive and that goes the same for the vocals. Only lasted a few songs before I had to turn it off. No way I could’ve lasted over 2 hours. Not my thing, probably a 1 from me but gets an extra mark due to some of the interesting musicality.

That wasn't fun

Not my thing

This album definitely takes me back to the early 2000s because I was a huge fan of UK 2-step garage. MJ Cole had a more sophisticated, smoother, and jazzier edge to his style, along with soulful vocals and lush string arrangements. This album features intricate 2-step rhythms with syncopated snares and swung hi hats, which were classic traits of garage at the time. And you can’t forget those deep, rounded basslines that never overwhelm, but instead blend smoothly with the rest of the music and vocals. This will always stand out as a landmark album from the UK garage movement, and one that brings back so many memories for me.

This album did not age well

Tuvo sus buenos momentos, es como la precuela de un lofi pop en el sentido de que puedo dejarlo de música de fondo mientras trabajo y da lo mismo.

Woah. Think this is UK garage. Is this an important UK garage record? I'd have no idea because it's not something I know anything about, and also this list has a tendency of putting things that weren't very important to listen to past the late '90s mark. But I was into it and I'll probably come back to it and explore the genre as a whole more.

46/1001 :: MJ Cole - Sincere Heard before? ❌ Would I revisit? ❌ Rating: 1.5 Fav Tracks: - I’m sure there are people out there who like this but club music with generic R&B vocal is just not my thing.

Inte min kopp te

Eh, not really my thing. It's fine, but it's too repetitive and not very interesting or engaging for me.

Not bad, but very dated sounding. Instantly recognizable as 90s (despite being released in 2000).

2/10 Favorite: Crazy Love

Every track dounded the same after about 30 seconds

Garage style drum roll please..........!!!!! Shite

This one is a headscratcher..of the 200+ albuns so far I am wondering why this made it onto the list more than any other. It's not actually *that* bad, but was I think released fairly late on in it's genre's history so presumably wasn't influential in any way - it's a little M-People cocktail house/garage but 6 years or so late...

If anyone ever said to me “I think I need to listen to some Garage music”, I would happily point them in the direction of this album For that reason alone, I think it’s deserving of its place on this list, that said the Spotify version checks in over two hours long, which is way beyond my attention span. Musically, it’s really well produced, and takes me back to an era when I was living in London and was exposed to this kind of sound on a regular basis. it was never really my thing but I can however appreciate it for what it is. Of all the garage out there, this is definitely one artist that I feel I could give time of day. It is surprisingly consistent and offers variety, but is way too long and starts to lose me towards the end of disc 1. Bottom line - It’s never getting more than 3 stars because of its torturous length but is well worth a listen as a stand out example of its genre.

Pretty fun dance album

MJ Cole ist ein britischer Musiker und Produzent aus London, der im musikalischen Umfeld der UK-Garage aktiv ist. Das Album Sincere wurde zwischen 1997 und 2000 in verschiedenen Studios in Großbritannien aufgenommen und abgemischt, darunter Prolific Studios, Cutting Edge Studios und Soho Recording Studios. Die Musik lässt sich klar dem Genre UK-Garage zuordnen, mit Einflüssen aus House und elektronischer Musik. Besonders bekannt sind die Songs „Sincere“, „Crazy Love“ sowie „Hold On To Me“ – sie gelten als prägend für das Genre. „Crazy Love“ etwa erreichte in Großbritannien hohe Chartplatzierungen. Das Album präsentiert sich technisch versiert und stilistisch stimmig. Persönlich finde ich, dass Sincere eine ausgewogene Mischung aus clubtauglichen Rhythmen und songorientiertem Songwriting bietet – ohne auf Effekthascherei zu setzen. Insgesamt ist Sincere ein durchdachtes Debüt, das den Stil des damals entstehenden UK-Garage wirksam innerhalb eines kohärenten Gesamtwerks abbildet.

Those 2-step vibes bring back all my amazing teenage years. Too nostalgic, can't rate it less than 5of5

House electronic music might be my least favorite subgenre of music. At what point in your life do you think “Yeah lemme listen to a bunch of limp-dick beats and generic reverb background vocals on a loop for over an hour”? I can think of 2 reasons: 1. You’re on a dopamine detox. You’ve determined that doomscrolling or drugs or the internet has compromised your brain to the point where you need to take a tolerance break from all dopamine-producing sensations in order to feel alive again. This album will make you hate listening to music so much that things like working, painting a house, or hard exercising will feel like an orgasm in comparison. 2. You run a business that specializes in pretentiousness. Think NYC rooftop happy hour spot or Miami gimmicky restaurant. House music will give you a colorless and uninspired soundtrack that will perfectly match the vapid personalities that the venue attracts. As you can tell, I disliked this album a lot. I’d rather listen to the heaviest heavy metal, the sparsest ambient, the most experimental Zappa-pilled progressive atonal chaotic 70s joke-rock or the sitar-iest Himalayan singer/songwriter than this spiritless garbage.

Just not my tempo, like, at all. Not my genre, not my anything, really.

If it was waaaay shorter, I probably would have appreciated it more. Every song is just too long. This album could have done better with under an hour of music. Other than that, ignoring the boredom, it was enjoyable.

I did not dig this.

I just went from a great 2000's electronic album (Avalanches) to a very generic and kinda bad one, so this review may be more negative than if I got it some other day. Anyways here is my copypasta UK electronica rant because it always applies and if they are going to keep giving me the same album I'll give the same review: "About 200 albums ago I had 2 straight months of 70's folk music and I kept ranting about how it is over represented in this list. Since then I have only gotten one here and there, so I guess I just got really unlucky. Now, I feel like the real genre that is over represented in this list is UK EDM/Electronica/Dance. Is the UK electronic scene really that important? I like to think I know more than the average person about music history, and I am involved in various music discourse, and no one has EVER brought up any of these artists. To be fair I don't follow much electronic music though. I feel like 1 or 2 UK albums on this list would be fine, but it feels like there are 30-40, and they always are the same. Some UK guy no one has heard of in the last 20 years that had one decently successful album (I don't think that applies to this one lol) in the 90's (usually a debut), all the songs have 100,000 streams, and then it is over an hour of some of the most average electronic music ever." Now back to the album: This album is really boring and I don't really have much to say about it so here are some short snippets that came to mind while I was listening. If that is MJ Cole "singing" on Introduction, he really shouldn't. Why does Tired Games cut out like that, it sound bad. Danny Vicious is not good at rapping. I completely zoned out, but I think You're Mine was 6 minutes of a 6 second loop. No idea why Sincere has 11 million streams, it sounds just like every other song. I just remembered Mezzanine isn't on this list and got upset. BUT THANK GOD MJ COLE IS HERE! I am so glad I got to experience an hour of the same beat on repeat. Low 2.

Wtf is this garbage.

Ultraboring

Really cool but very repetitive and long

I am too old for this electronic dance music stuff, not that I would have liked it when I was younger. I could tolerate Disco to some extent but not this. 2 stars or D-.

:(

Some tracks were somewhat enjoyable, while others were unbearable. Overall, the album felt repetitive and overly long. Maybe I would have enjoyed it more in the right setting, but since I'm not a party boy, it's a 2/5 for me.

Dull - really not sure why this was selected. Never heard of him.

It's okay, not the biggest fan of 2 step but there's some cool production here

Poorly produced filler music. The YouTube ads were more enjoyable.

Cover 6.5 Chill. Didn't hate it.

Cool background music but absolutely tedious to actually listening to.

I couldn’t subject myself to this.

This is what disorganization sounds like

Okay to get some work done at my PC. Otherwise, pretty boring and repetitive. 3/5

I think there is some good stuff on this album, but it is much much too long, and it is too repetitive. If it would have been 40 minutes or an hour with more variety, it could be really great. However, it's mostly something to put on in the background with just two or three standout songs that, again, even lose some of their luster when in the middle of so much of the same beats and sounds.

Il y a une vibe mais bon, assez répétitif, musique de shopping quoi…

This was so fine???? Nothing special but not unpleasant to listen to. Made me nostalgic for my childhood.

Beats were mid and the feats were also mid

I'm only doing 1 disc of this. Generic british drum and bass.

Influential for its time, but from a modern perspective it’s thin and repetitive. Given its emergence on the verge of a technological boom, it’s actually a surprisingly nuanced and interesting album. But it’s too long

R&B style electronica - not horrible, but not my thing.

Dreadfully dull for the most part, with one or two tracks that just deliver the idea that's thinly spread accross the rest of the tracks well enough.

within the first two tracks you will be incredibly annoyed. The rest is a little more cohesive, but saying that, none of this seems mixed or layered properly. its like they recorded all the seperate tracks and left them as is.

Bad

This whole album all sounds the same, this didn't age well at all.

Real good. Way too long.

This album definitely takes me back to the early 2000s because I was a huge fan of UK 2-step garage. MJ Cole had a more sophisticated, smoother, and jazzier edge to his style, along with soulful vocals and lush string arrangements. This album features intricate 2-step rhythms with syncopated snares and swung hi hats, which were classic traits of garage at the time. And you can’t forget those deep, rounded basslines that never overwhelm, but instead blend smoothly with the rest of the music and vocals. This will always stand out as a landmark album from the UK garage movement, and one that brings back so many memories for me.

Not my favourite - at all

I can appreciate the stutter step drum beats. It’s more unique than a lot of dance music. However, I didn’t find it all that danceable and it was boring and way too long.

Listened to this with Fred in the car ion the way to watch the cricket in Manchester. Apparently, it's a seminal work of UK Garage. Some of the vocals are very good soul but the musicality really lacks groove and feeling.

House. Interesting, but still repetitive.

Apparently this was the start of the genre that eventually birthed dubstep and some other electronic movements, so that explains it's inclusion I guess. This is offensively inoffensive shlock through. I thought AI bands were a 2025 problem.

Just ok. I’m not a big fan of techno/house/whatever this is. I’ll probably never listen to it again, but it wasn’t terrible.

3.5/5

When I'm listening to something new - especially when I'm not familiar, I'll look at the genre. This record is in the Dance category. I immediately ask myself if I'm in the mood to listen to a Dance record. I'm about 99.9% not ready to listen. But I really enjoy this 1001 albums generator and am willing to try out unfamiliar music. Rating something from a genre that you don't listen to, or don't like, is not fun. I could give this a "1" star because I didn't like the music. I liked MJ Cole's voice - and can hear her talent, but I just don't like the music - in general. The beats were good. Production good...I didn't hate it. It's not "bad"... but i didn't like it. there.

Gave it a try. Not a bad listen, just not for me.

Booming beats, repetitive : the only positive is some occasional soulful flourishes. All in all, dull.

There wasn’t a single song from this album I was excited to listen to again. There also wasn’t a single song I would hate to listen to again either.

not for me

Stripped back house/dance with acoustic instruments and soulful vocals Like the piano on Introduction Nice easy listening throughout Strung Out reminds me of Thinking it Over by Liberty X 2 years later... Some bits are more experimental (Rough Out Here) Disk 2 is just remixes Best track - You're Mine/Introduction/Sincere/Slum King 4 stars for general mood

Love it. Surprised at the lack of coverage on Wikipedia, given MJ Cole's apparent influence on tons of dance and pop music (as evidenced by a few listens). I'll keep this one around.

Sincerely this was very boring

A vibe

This is fucking awful.

I broke my rule of listening to thr entire album on this one. 2 hours of generic club music you would likely hear on a car commercial.

Great music to listen to while cleaning or just for background music at a party, but the lyrics repeat too much for me to give it 5 stars

It’s fine Production is solid

Another bland electronic album that overstays its' welcome. 2/5 because I did not actively hate it.

Ah shit, here we go again.

Boring electronic club music. It's inoffensive but blah. I could leave it behind.

This is an ok sound. Good rhythms but not really my kind of music

There are so many questions... THIS is a professional musician? As a professional he actually heard this "music" in his head? He decided to record it? He thinks it came out sounding good? All the other people involved with recording this album are happy with their work too? A record label actually heard this and thought it was worthy of release? Someone designed this album cover? That someone submitted it as a serious submission? It actually got chosen? Dimery included it in his book? He expected to hold on to any of his credibility? This album sucks

And another one that should be on 1,001 albums to avoid at all costs. What garbage.

this commits a cardinal sin: it’s boring as fuck

bad electronic beats

Stop at track two, you've heard them all.

Entirely unremarkable house music album. Every song sounds exactly like every other house music song made - same tempo and drum track with boring overlays. At least this album has shorter runtimes for its songs and some interesting vocals. But not much else going on. Top tracks: Crazy Love, Rough Out Here

2000s British Electronica. Garage. Ambient music with R&B flavours.

Not my cup of tea. The first track has a lady singing who sounds super cheesy in the way that she’s delivering the vocals. That sort of set the tone. Lots of electronics, which isn’t always a bad thing, but in this case, it seemed kind of soulless. For some reason, this album is two hours long. I made it through about 90 minutes of it before I said OK I can’t take it anymore. It was enjoyable background music, but not something I would actively listen to.

I mean… it’s too inoffensive to give this only one star but it’s really not interesting. When the only accomplishment mentioned in Wikipedia is that you’re on this list, you shouldn’t be on this list.

It's all right

really boring and repetitive - felt like it was only on this list for inclusivity. every single song sounded the same, absolutely no variation at all definitely worth a zero stars for me, but have to give it one

Couldn’t make it through

Didn’t need a double disc album of this

Very fun! More exciting than I thought it would be. I forgot how fun jungle beat can be. Such a 90s feel, but very fun.

On kyllä niin perus Dance levy niin perus, mutta iso luotto 1000 pv jälkeen book author(s) löytänä parhaan mahdollisen dance levyn niin otetaan +2 star lisää

Why do these awful electronica albums insist on being 2 hours long? One hour is too much. Two is an insult.

So generic that it's hard to understand why it's chosen to be on this 1001 albums list. There's some good vocal performance, but songs are really average and everything is treated with middle-of-the-road production. There must be better albums to represent this music genre.

Artiste inconnu. Et qui aurait dû le rester. Absolument aucun intérêt : répétitif, long et ennuyeux. J'ai eu de la chance de ne pas trouver l'édition initiale complète sur YT, mais même avec seulement 12 morceaux au lieu de 17 je ne suis pas allé au bout. Et je n'imagine même pas tenter l'édition deluxe et ses 28 morceaux ... =>1/5

Good example of 2000 UK EDM. It starts off alright and becomes boring after a couple of minutes.

o álbum mais "estou fazendo compras na riachuelo do del rey num sábado a tarde" que eu já vi em mto tempo inicialmente eu n tava achando ruim, mas depois tomei ódio

ou, ótima trilha sonora pra comprar roupas na c&a e/ou riachuelo infelizmente ouvi em casa, longe de lojas de roupas medíocres. achei chato demais

It's a nope for me.

Итс... окэй. Может быть без этого альбома не было бы Буриала, что конечно очень грустно, и одновременно с этим я тут влепил 4 звезды отцу и матери днб два альбома назад, что как бы ставит меня в неловкое положение: неужели днб более жанр, чем тустеп, юкей гарадж, или как это вообще назвать? Итс окэй. Лучшая песня - Sincere.

Too many songs

If I were younger, i might enjoy the never ending dance beat over the same phrases repeated again and again. I loved it back in the day when disco did the same thing in their dance clubs. Now I can appreciate the innovation and the drive to make something new, but I don't have the patience to listen to two hours of dance music with a driving beat. 3/5

Feels like shopping for jeans at Forever 21 in the early 2000s.

Bbboooorrrriiinnnngggg

ok as background music

Sadly not a collaboration between MJ Lenderman and J. Cole, but rather a stock electronic album with generic R&B singers

приятно, местами напомнило Сила. есть норм треки для Zara)

some good, some not my thing. a bit too much repetition in some songs for me

A nice chill electronic music album, great to listen to while doing something as its simple and doesn't require much focus. Not something I would go out of my way to listen to, but I'm glad I did while I was doing some other tasks :)

The album is not written to connect with the audience. Not written to entertain either. Music wise, strange but academically novel??? There are indeed some key change, rarely used or maybe “weird” chord progression..I can see they wanted to make the innovation not too jarring.. so they simplified their music so we could notice the “difference” more easily?? Logically, it’s self-contained. But I am not really sure about their motivation and where they wanted to lead us to. Style over substance. Overly “minimalistic”. And it is just not good enough to make an impact in a short term.

I don’t see how this is an album that needs to be heard. Particular songs? Maybe but honestly it’s the same song. Same snare heavy electronic drumbeat, mostly the same artist or two for a hook, shitty repetitive lyrics as only a DJ can craft them. Just feels like another album fishing for one specific radio play. You can’t tell me this dude made this many songs for the love of the game.

This album was aight. Some songs were cool to jam along to, but otherwise I was just kinda bored with it. Almost a three, but I can’t even recall anything off it two days later so down to two it goes

Really just not my style at all, and a bit annoying. Every once in a while I had to remind myself why I was listening to this music, and ended up switching to a podcast before finishing.

Apparently I enjoy the house music/UK garage genre. Even with and overload of drum and bass and dance albums on the list, this one felt fresh and different. Listened to this one twice, including the deluxe edition on accident the first time through, and I was vibing the whole time. Pleasantly surprised by this album and hope to move away from the DnB albums into more house music. I’m so tempted to give this album a five, but I’m more at a 9 out of 10 that will get rounded down.

I think the best setting for this album is at your friend's expensive downtown penthouse apartment. A beautiful luxurious apartment that you know he can't afford and he knows he can't afford either, but he's been slowly ignoring that fact by doing heaps of cocaine and ecstasy. You decided to join him tonight on his last drug fueled bender before he is evicted from the property in the morning. He puts on this album and then goes to get dressed in a suit that costs more than your car. He tells you that it's actually an investment because you have to invest in yourself before you can make money. On the way to the club, and without your knowledge, you meet up with two escorts that he hired. They look bored and annoyed to be there, because they can tell the difference between someone who's actually rich and someone pretending to be rich like your friend. The blending waves of cocaine and ecstasy cause you to black out periodically throughout the night, but you can still remember that this album is also playing at the club your at. While your buddy is doing a bump in the bathroom, you notice the escorts sneaking off with the rest of the coke but you don't do anything to stop them. The next thing you know you're following your friend down an alley because he quote "Knows a guy who owes me some coke". When you get there you find out it's the opposite and your buddy owes this guy thousands. He roughs up your friend and throws him into the street all while your friend is screaming about how he's going to sue him for messing up his $15,000 suit. The rest of the night is a blur wandering around the streets listening to your buddy talk about how he has this whole town figured out and will be running wall street soon. His babbling drowns out most of the street noise, but you swear that you can still hear that MJ Cole album playing. You finally come to your senses the next morning, and find yourself laying on the floor of an Apple store with a pounding headache. Someone is standing over you and is asking you if you'd like buy the protection plan on the iMac you just purchased. Your friend is nowhere to be seen, and somehow this album is still playing in the background over the speakers of the store.

Mid

3.5

Art is subjective. Garbage is not.

I'm always interested every time I get an album from the bottom 20, because most of them are really not that bad. This one is definitely far from the worst of the lot, but it's not great. A lot of it is pointless and repetitive meandering, which does get annying quickly. But there are still a handful of tracks on it that I thought were actually quite good, with a lot of the featured artists being mostly what keep it from being complete garbage.

There is relatively so little "electronica" on this list that it saddens me when shite like this comes up. Sterile and joyless tunes - overlong and repetitive beats.

Sincere Call 999, it's an emergency Beats and Grindah killed an MC Someone take him to A&E Then perform some lyrical surgery I’m sure it was included as Garage was a nascent, new genre when the first edition was released. It’s good to have some representation, and I’ve always liked the title track and Crazy Love, but I think there must be better albums, or shorter albums or less repetitive albums. It’s not awful, I actually found it quite easy to work to, but it is very, very one note and very, very long, the slightly imperceptible variations on the same beat and keyboard sound does just make it feel like one long lump of Garagey-ness. When there are little interjections and variations they don’t always work. The jazzy inflections I think are supposed to evoke sophistication, but they just tend to add to the flatness, the Spanish guitars on You’re Mine feel quite cliche and trite and the Stevie-esque keyboards on Slum King sound unconvincing. Rough Out Here is pretty ropey Curtis Mayfield knock off. There are some good vocals, Crazy Love, Sincere, I See, but some of the rapping isn’t great, MJ FM Interlude for example, but there’s not really anything on it to make you want to come back to it, unless you need some rhythmically undynamic music to work to, so I’ll give it a 2. 🛍️🛍️ Playlist submission: Sincere

It does generally avoid a 'People Just Do Nothing' approach, although the MJ FM Interlude comes close. Albeit he's nowhere near as good on the mic as Grindah (genuinely). At worst, like 'Free My Mind', it's a very painful slice of Brand New Heaviest banality. Many of these tracks feel like the sort of thing AI can create these days. It's also way too long. Do you really need to start remixing album tracks on the same album? Save it for the b-sides! In saying that, I did like the 'Sincere' remix - which then renders the original pointless. Then he does another remix of the remix! Some nice moments. But nowhere near enough to render this a 'good' album.

This isn't really my kind of music but it's relatively inoffensive

first listen it's alright

Didn’t listen to all of it…. 2 hours of chill dance wasn’t really my vibe for the day. Good listen though, I will return to it.

Less bad than I feared. A few tracks were even quite nice. However, there was nothing on the album that made me want to listen to it again, while I quickly skipped a few tracks. 2/5

big 2

Generic electronica rambling without any structure or original idea. 1.5/5

Jesus these clipped notes are just fucking annoying. Skipped first two songs as they were horrifically anxiety inducing, track three is just knob twiddling wank. Fuck this shit and fuck this isn't music. fuck off.

A whole lotta meh here. Not sure how this one made the list. Not much energy or anything to hold interest.

Was it really that sincere?

Maybe I'm not in the right mindset for this one. Cause so far the songs are just loops. Repetitive doesn't describe how little the songs change. So I'm thinking I need to travel back in time grab all the raver kid pills I can take and give it a relisten. I feel like this album is trolling me. It sounds like the music played in a shitty overpriced clothing store at a mall in the late 90's. It's just repeating. HOW IS THIS TWO HOURS LONG! What is the absolute hell is going on?! Sorry electronic music lovers this one isn't bringing me to your side of things.

Absolute shit, sincerely.

Nah

Chill vibes

iwie chillig aber iwie ah nix besonderes. 2.5.

House, 2step... not my style

I guess this is in here because MJ Cole typifies the garage two-step sound which was massive in the UK in the early 00s. I was never a big fan, I can appreciate the production values but found it dragged over a whole LPs worth

Not offensive to my ears or anything, but really not my thing, the "Introduction" song was promising (bit 'trip-hoppy') but was fairly 'meh' following on the rest of the album, on the deluxe version but I don't think I'll be listening to the second disc (it'll put me in a bad mood the rest of the day), not real fussed on grime style vocals, probably a 2.5 but will give a ⭐⭐

Perfectly inoffensive but totally forgettable. There's some nice easy listening electronica here, which is nice contrast to the blast of The Prodigy I've gotten here. But at the same time, not sure why I would come back to this as none of the individual sounds are compelling enough to bring me back. My favorites would be Bandelero and You're Mine.

While I can enjoy dance music at times when I am in the right space, it's rarely something I seek out by choice. So, I went into Sincere by MJ Cole with an open mind, curious to see if it could win me over. Unfortunately, the album didn’t quite hit the mark for me. At over an hour long, it feels bloated, and much of the content blends into a repetitive, generic 90s sound. This is very much a product of late-90s British dance music—with all the polish but little of the innovation. Too many tracks lack distinction, and nothing really stood out or grabbed my attention. To be honest, I was surprised to find Sincere included in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. It seems like a questionable inclusion when compared to other, more impactful records. Favourite track: I couldnt pick one Least favourite: I couldnt pick one Album artwork: I actually really like the cover—stylish and visually appealing.

Naja

This was just before I started to listen to "worldly" music, and I can hear a lot of inspiration for other artists I discovered.

3/10 - it was weird and really long

Mediocre

had some cool tunes but its way too long! Every song could be way shorter or at least tighten up the tracklist... (2.5/5.0)

God this was just bad. Like the worst PS2 menu music vibe imaginable. Like a chimp trying to sound like Fatboy Slim.

Muzak. 1.5

I felt like I was stuck in an H&M in the early 2000's for hours

Just dreadful. The repetitiveness of a trance album but with an RnB beat. The radio style MC shoutout track was the only real garage bit I could recognise. I reckon most songs only had about 10-15 words that weren’t the title of the song, which while a helpful reminder I don’t need to hear 50 times. But it helped put being stuck on the M25 into perspective as I realised life could be worse and mercifully I don’t expect I will have to listen to this again.

It's just club dance music. Like one step above elevator music. I don't get the selection of some (a lot) of these albums. Doubly so when you consider a bunch of the albums on the "ex" list.

Straight middle of the road. Not bad, did not love

The first thing I thought when I queued this album up was "Jesus it's over 2 hours long, I hope it doesn't suck." Well, I listened to both disks and while it wasn't horrible, it was a slog that I felt like I needed to be on drugs to really appreciate. So this album is classified as garage & house on Wikipedia. Not something I've dabbled in much. You can definitely turn your brain off and just kinda vibe or lock into work or some tedious task with this on. There are some good beats, but nothing crazy. Hope you like those beats, though, because this thing goes on forever and can get grating after a while. The whole thing also feels very dated. Standouts were "Tired Games" - just for that weird funky guitar bit - "Sanctuary" - had some nice vocals and guitar - "I See," and "Strung Out" - aptly titled with some nice string pieces. Shoutout to "Bandelero Desperado" for those sweet sweet whale noises. I'm a little confused how this album got on the list. I guess this album was some sort of garage/electronic breakthrough or something? There's nothing really offensive here, but nothing great either. Just an album to put on where all the songs kind of blend together as you attempt to chill out. It's 2 stars for me. And also, yeah, what the hell is that album art?

Another Electronic album I just did not enjoy very much. boring and uninteresting

Meh

Føles ut som jeg er i hodet til Herman Flesvig, og det er ikke et sted jeg har lyst til å være.

This one is going to be a tough one...Oh yes it is. I am so bailing on this. First album but its just so bad. Only thing worse than MJ cole...When he brings in an even bigger bell end to do his skat with. I litterally could not stand this.

At first I thought that I was going to buck the trend and actually enjoy this album because I do have a soft spot for the UK Garage sound. Unfortunately, as much as I might have enjoyed the odd track as a throwback, as a whole album this is almost intolerable. I like electronic music but I find the beats in this are just too simple and repetitive and fail to build to anything interesting. Once you have heard the first few bars of a track you have heard it all and have to sit through another three minutes. The vocal samples are also basic, repetitive, and often just intensely irritating. I have previously given two stars for albums I haven't enjoyed but that I feel have an enduring influence to popular music. I don't hear that with this album and I am genuinely surprised to see it on this list. I don't see how anyone can claim you must hear this before you die and I don't think it was especially influential at the time or since.

i know there are albums ranked lower overall but i don't think i've seen one with so few 5/5 reviews

Listens: 2 Standout tracks: Slum King The first few tracks have good break beat vibes. Break beat, as a genre, is not something I encounter very often. Good beats. The composition of the album is familiar. MJ Cole producing the tracks with loads of different guest artists providing vocals, samples and skits, though there's not loads of different guests on this album. Feels like proto-dubstep in a way, specifically Rusko or Caspa. The deluxe version is the only available version in YouTube Music, and so I probably listened to variations of some of the songs multiple times. The experience started off good, but it eventually got incredibly repetitive. Dropped to 2. Wholly unremarkable and borderline bad.

Early (90s/00s) electronic music does not hit the spot for me. The techno/garage-y sound is very repetitive and non interesting.

The disjointed and syncopated aspects of this record are incredibly annoying and disconcerting. I guess UK Garage isn’t my cup of tea. It’s strange given that I generally like House. Standout track is: “Free my Mind”

This was just not good. I would have given it two stars but making me suffer thru the 2nd hour of remixes on repetitive but different versions of the already repetitive and frankly boring musically songs made me take away a star

That's not my taste in music - But ok

I understand the novelty and can appreciate the music, but still feel like it's falling short of something. Felt a little too repetitive and also a bit long winded.

UK Garage classic!! Når det er sagt synes jeg det er mye filler her. Crazy Love og Sincere er begge all time bangers, og MJ FM Interlude er fet og representativ når det kommer til UK Garage-kultur, men resten er ganske halvveis.

Some killers init but bare fillers bruv

This is like the definition of background music. I could listen to this all day while working and not really notice it. Some songs were terrible, some were good. Just a strong 2

Meh, it may sound harsh but…music to get your hair cut by.

Not into the whole electronic sound and it was mostly a massive bore from start to finish

Pretty dated but quite a fun nostalgia trip, shouldn’t be on the list tho