Reviews (page 6 of 7)
Rather boring dance muzak.
Not really in the mood for this one
Perfectly serviceable 2-step garage background music. Not particularly remarkable or worth a place on this list, more suited to a 2000s wine bar that was trying to be hip. Full disclosure: I didn't feel like I needed to listen to disc two. If something amazing happened on that, please can someone let me know?
I can imagine enjoying this if played very loud while in a substance induced state of cheerfulness that, to the naked eye, appeared to be melancholy. Since I'm never in that state, I have to consider my actual enjoyment level and it is far lower than my hypothetical enjoyment level. The reality is that the high pitched vocals stay in that lane for too long and make me worry that actual melancholy might occur if I don't turn the darn thing off. The dub stuff is fun though
Didn't really do it for me.
Nothing special. Skipped quite a few songs
Bad. Boring. House music probably shouldn't be on this list.
Again not the sort of music I listen to normally but it’s fine. The 2 big singles stand out maybe due to familiarity, but not so,etching I’d chose to listen to
Hvað þessi plata er að gera þarna á listanum veit ég ekki. Ekki beint leiðinlegt en frekar einhæft. Danny Vicious sínu leiðinlegri í rappinu en Elizabeth Troy í söngnum, en allt fer þetta inn um annað út um hitt.
Garage just isn't for me really. I get the appeal and it was a relatively enjoyable listen, though a bit on the long side, but just not my jam
2000. Crazy Love
It was ok. Not my thing.
I guess that it was decent, I thought a few of the songs were stand outs but overall this album didn't do it for me, 2.5/5
Ok felt a bit dated overall
Could this have any less variety track to track?
I had liked the drums but they basically used the same patterns with some variations for a lot of the songs. I’m sure it’s better in da club, but as an album it’s lacking.
Dance music isn’t my thing. Inoffensive as it may be
First album that I truly have never heard any songs from. It was fine.
the instrumentals are basically just a drum loop with some sound effects. Combine this with the fact that most of the vocals are just ad libs that are heavily editted its kind of a soulless album
Having read the reviews, I was a bit worried. Ultimately, this grew on me. It is repetitive, but part of me feels like that's just the nature of the genre. Regardless, some tracks are really smooth and I'd put them on, not just for background music/study but also to relax. But for the most part, I was very "aware" of the fact that I was listening. I don't always get lost in an album, of course, but I usually don't have the opposite experience of being hyper-aware that I'm listening to an album intentionally. It felt weird. Anyway, this gets a 2. There were moments where I thought it would get a 3, but it's not quite there yet.
How is it that all UK Garage all manages to sound the exact same?
Just a bunch of repetitive beats and hooks. Not very creative or interesting at all. There was one song (Rough Out Here I think? Can't even remember, that's how interchangeable these songs are) that had a moment or two that I liked, but this was just pointless all the way through. Could see some of these songs being appropriate at a crappy rave somewhere but that's the only thing that saves it from 1 star.
Very long album and its not my vibe at all. I think it was just before my time and just a little below interesting enough for me to be able to climb on board.
Generic.
I don't know why this is so long, I don't know why there's like almost no cohesion to the album. It sounds like the sampler disc at a fucking j.crew in 2000. The guy who got the album added to the book only did it because it reminds him of the time he got to cop a titty grab off a girl on the verge of an ecstasy coma at an EDM festival and he's probably named Gareth or Willem.
ok but too generic for me wouldn't turn it off,
Bland
Pretty fun but didn't grab me.
Not really my kind of electric music.
Interesting, I was not expecting breakbeat on the tracks not for me
Theres some really good songs, and i can tell this is good, but Im still trying to get used to house music. This was a good album to keep getting an ear for it
OK. Lots of repetitive sampling with a good groove.
It was fine, but nowhere close to my favorite. Decent background music but I probably wouldn’t choose to listen to it again.
Mediocre British dancehall music from the early 2000s. The only thing that is saving this from literally 1 star is "Bandelero Desperado", which is a 5 star track that, as the kids say, slaps.
I don't like house music or whatever this is. Not my bag. There were one or two songs that I liked, but for the most part this was a tough listen.
Eh not my style, EDM predecessor but I'm sure it's important somehow
modern art of music. not really intrested
Trippier than I expected - so many similarities to Revolver
This might be someone's cup of tea. This gives me 2000s shopping mall vibes. It sounds like the generic music you would hear at a JC Penney, Sears (RIP), Macy's, or what have you. Maybe a Hollister & Co. Anyway, I couldn't get onboard with it. It was nostalgic maybe for like the first two or three tracks, then I completely lost track of it. It was good background music during work, but I could not tell you any single distinct feature about the album, music, or artistry. This album gives me a generic mall clothing store Hotel California vibe. You can check out any time you like, but can never leave. Also, while the cologne-esque album art gives me the old vibes of my teenage years, I'd return this product, because it stinks. If this is YOUR vibe reading this, I'm happy for you. For me, this ain't it. If you know remember the "Boots and Pants and Boots and Pants" club vibe, that's the entire album.
personal hellscape
Maybe it got better in hour number 2? I couldn;t possible find out because hour #1 was unbearable.
From from to back, this was garbage. As far as house/dance music goes, this was uninteresting and annoying. Easily 1 star.
I guess the boots and cats trope of electronica had to come from somewhere, I just didn't expect it to make its way onto this list.
dogshit
Not really my thing… Fav song is ‘Crazy Love’.
Did not enjoy. 1/5
Day894 - it’s awful and i hated it
This album is deeply bad and I hate it
Awful. Leave it in the garage.
I do not see the appeal here at all.
So desperately not my thing that I stopped doing the list for a week afterwards.
A really repetitive album; this is just an hour of uninteresting beats, and when it did get unique or interesting, it was quickly ruined by annoying vocals performances.
This album is CRIMINALLY boring. The beats and music sound incredibly generic. The female vocals are decent enough, but the lyrics for the male vocalist sound like your "hip" uncle trying to sound cool to the young people. C'mon, there was way more interesting electronic music at the time this was released!
Not for me
I think was made for clubs, not general listening. I'm 63 and can't dance and just can't relate.
Boring. Not worth 2 hours of my life.
A big ole no for me.
If I heard this in the wild I would assume it was AI slop. Completely generic. Some tracks start with a few seconds of interesting instrumentals, only to be overshadowed by the half-hearted R&B or rap gobbledygook.
I can't believe this is the album you gave me today. Oh no... Sorry for coming to it with this attitude, but, really? The word that immediately come to mind is - generic. But as I usually say about this albums, why they have to be so fucking long. Generic is not that bad for 30 minutes, could be worse you know... but this long? That's the real crime. I can't figure out who's the person who listens to that in his spare time. And I Truly think this has no place on this list. I can't wait for it to end... I don't know why I'm so loyel to this random generator. Makes me wonder about some life decisions.. I took the wrong path here. Slum King should exist, yet, it lasts for five and a half minutes. One of the worst entries here ever. A shameful 1
just sucks
This has got to be one of the worst examples of electronic pop even for its time in Britain.
Absolutely nothing redeemable about this sewage. Boring and repetitive generic slop.
No album needs to be 2 hours long. Each one sounded very similar to the last
1.99
Longest elevator ride ever. I can't tell if this guy is good or not with all of the different collaborators.
Why? Just why?
Dude debuted with a double album? That takes some serious blind confidence. I couldn’t even make it through the first album. From what I heard, they committed to one programmed drum machine sound for about 80% of the record. It just wasn’t good and I saw no reason to continue.
Not my cup of tea, actually. Drum and bass and some vocals over it, but I'ts not the best
Terrible news: The Abercrombie and Fitch at the local mall became sentient after being exposed to too many Bath and Body Works samples and has morphed into a godless 2-hour long techno mixtape. We must offer our Build-A-Bears as a sacrifice to Lord Auntie Anne so that it stops wreaking havoc on the townspeople.
Dance music…
Just regular 90's/early-00's soulful electronica. Didn't really register with me, which is strange considering how long it was.
To my ears, not real great. The similar beat over all the tracks a bit gets old. The difference in vocal styles keeps it kind of interesting, but not enough to save it for me. 1.5/5.0
Not my thing.
Favorite Track: Crazy Love This type of thing being so frequent in this list really calls into question the validity of this whole thing.
There’s a smoldering bag on the album cover, but what’s inside isn’t really “fire,” but more “ding-dong-ditch” material.
Not enjoyable.
Excruciatingly dull!
Boy was that awful.
It was just so normal that it resulted in being absolutely terrible. It’s not directly bad, it’s just so forgettable. I already forgot what it sounded like lol
Genuinely think this is the worst album I’ve had to listen to for this project so far. Just nothing worthwhile here. Overlong, as all British house and electronica albums are. But also bland and limp and doing absolutely nothing interesting or new with the genre. The least exciting beats that never change! The most uninspired samples! Usually, even with the bad instrumentals, I can point to the vocalists having fun, but not really here! The primary last vocalist doesn’t even really have a good voice! She can’t really belt or wail like you’d want on an album such as this. It’s just a fine voice. Can carry a tune but nothing you’d want to pay for. Idk why this was included. Just absolute cardboard music.
This could be playing in any store in a shopping mall... it would have exactly the same effect on me: meh An album to listen to before I die?!?!?!? Naaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Too long....
Is there something I’m missing here? The only information on the Wikipedia page is that this album is on the thousand and one albums. Does the producer know a guy? The one beat across the whole album is infectious and some of the vocals are ear wormy. I don’t see this as being very influential. It does not light a fire to make me dance, but I do feel very cool listening to it.
Couldn't even finish this one sadly :(
Some of the worst music I have ever listened to. Really repetitive and boring, bland. Music suited for a shopping mall or mid 90's hip café. It is awfully long. It is really, really bad. Awful choice. Is this guy the cousin of the dude making this list?
I really find this music hard to love - the cutting edge of urban pop in the early 2000s - and the sound does regrettably annoy me in excessive quantities
This was very basic, mid and unimpressive. No.
Thirty seconds in and I know this is not an album I'm going to like. It's also a very long album. All these British house acts from the early 2000s sound like the soundtrack to overpriced hair salons. This is awful. This is an album of "boots-and-pants" beats with someone singing over them. The title track is probably the best song so far and it's not that good.
That was number 1001
not even the brief tolerable moments could bring it out of a 1
This song takes me back to the countless hours I will never get back sitting in the cuck chair under a hot light at Lane Bryant waiting for my partner to try on clothes, wanting to GTFO. Repetitive beats and lyrics that must appeal to someone, but certainly not me. Ugh.
on mysteeri miten kukaan koskaan kuuntelee tällaista itseääntoistavaa konemusiikkia. Kai se pitäis olla nappi kielen alla että tästä jotain visuaaleja saa.
Very not my thing
Some bright spots but painfully bland
I would rather eat an entire raw fish on my grandfathers grave while on fire then listen to one more second of this absolute trash
this wasn't good
(12/100)
So. so. bad.
I feel like there had to be better albums than this in the same genre come out before 2000. Insanely boring, inoffensive background music. I just kept waiting for something interesting to happen, no dice. Generic. Could not finish
Sounds like music that would be playing in a clothing store where you walk in, realize a t-shirt is $89, feel weirdly judged by a sales associate chewing gum behind the desk, and walk out feeling kind of depressed Fave tracks: - Tired Games - Strung Out
The song Sanctuary on the album is currently asking if I feel the vibes. No, I do not feel the vibes. This album is absolute crap. I don’t tap out of an album often but fuck this shit.
Not my style
I tried, I gave it a good shake but couldn’t make it to side 2. It’s incredibly long and repetitive with not much development, if you’re going to make a 2hr album it has to be ground breaking with minimal misses but this isn’t that, it’s repetitive edm.
Dislike.
Dimery and team should be issuing sincere apologies for including this one.
This felt like another endurance task at first. There were moments I didn’t entirely hate but overall I’m baffled by his prestige. This is nothing music to me. Muzak even!!! I like house music!! I did not like this. In fact there was one song I recognised from a house music playlist I listen to semi-regularly and I recognised it because I hate it and always skip it!
i really dislike this type of electronic music (2-step and other percussion heavy stuff) but i thought since this is on the big 1001 list, it might surprise me in a good way. i was wrong. the songs are just too repetitive. the whole album just blends into one long and painful track. it's all the same speed, same beat. some songs start out quite promising and interesting but after a bit every single one of them ends up sounding the same as the last one. it might be iconic or influential, might be a good definition of its genre. but it is a dull album with very little of essence.
Bleeding ears
utter GARBAGE
Not finishing this. I don’t like what I’ve heard so far and Spotify’s track listing has a lot of extra songs compared to what Wikipedia has listed. I don’t know what really belongs on this album, but based on what I’ve heard, it doesn’t belong on this list. 1/5
229/1001 MJ Cole - Sincere Heard before? ❎ Revisit? ❎ Add pretty much the exact same dull, repetitive backing beat to every track. Get some friend to add some vocals. Repeat ad nauseam.
This is what happens when you give that special little guy a Fisher Price My first turntable.
Let’s be sincere, shall we? Sincere is hot shit garbage. The kind of album that makes you wonder if the drum machine was found at the bottom of a bargain bin labeled “Absolutely Not.” It’s an endless loop of the same stale, copy-paste beats—like someone discovered a “Demo Mode” button and decided that was good enough for a full release. You can practically picture MJ Cole dusting off a prehistoric desktop PC, sliding in that mythical CD-ROM masterpiece from Best Buy—“Mixman DJ Megamix”—and whispering to himself, “Today… I become the DJ.” Because nothing screams artistic evolution like clicking “Add Loop” over and over until the timeline looks like a brick wall of bad decisions. Layer after layer after layer of sporadically random shit, all confidently assembled under the bold assumption that repetition equals genius. And just when you think it’s over—surprise! Deluxe Edition. Because what this bloated mess really needed was more. More edits. More extended versions. More opportunities to sit there questioning every life choice that led you to pressing play in the first place. Two hours of this is less an album and more an endurance test. But hey, clearly the world was crying out for the “Recloose Vocal Mix” of Wondering Why. Why? Great question. Too many whys? Absolutely. That’s the point. By the time you finish this record, you’ll be wondering why you didn’t just sit in silence instead. What a terrible way to close out the week by dropping this on a Friday.
Felt like I was going insane from repetitiveness by the end.
Clearly I’m not aware of any significant pioneering it it’s there - and I hope there is something I’m missing because otherwise I don’t get it. Repetitive, nothing that really stands out, just nothing on the surface that makes it stand out. I tried listening to some of them more well played songs a second time but just not connecting.
Album 44 Top 3 "favorites" off the album: Strung Out (Edit), I would enjoy this at the club with the right group of people for maybe an hour if this is all they were playing. If they were mixing it up, it would be longer. I snorted so hard it hurt when You're Mine started. Every song was about 2-3 minutes too long. Everything has the same drums. It's all the same track with another vocalist or two. I can't do it, bestie. I can't. "Do you feel the vibes?" Yes! If the vibes are meant to be staring at a fucking wall for over an hour listening to the same song over and over again! I feel something! I hated "I See." I did. After that point, I was grinding my damn teeth, because why was the album still going? Fuck's sake. Please. This is what they play in hell, mixed in with Bob Dylan to really keep you guessing. I'm incapable of being kind today, this album got on my fucking nerves. And then Strung Out (Edit) hit, and I wept tears of joy because I love cello, and I wept tears of anguish because nothing would compare to it after it ended. There was no coming back after that one. If I hadn't already been done for, that is the point at which I would've been done for. Screw literally every other song on this accursed album. It's funny; the more I hate an album, the more I have to say. Sometimes I have more to say than I do about albums I love.
Not a fan
1/10 I'm a big fan of electronica/dance music, especially from the late 90s/early 2000s, but let's be real - dance albums never really work, at least not at this time. This is just not a very interesting album - and not particularly good dance music. It's overly long, repetitive, and wasn't all that relevant at the time, let alone now. Why is this on the list?
Ya gotta get nasty! How? Put your hands in yours hips! Oh and you have to get an attitude, for five fucking minutes. If I had only known I could've been nasty a long time ago. If you divide the 1001 albums by the 60 years it covers, it comes out at about 13 albums per year. In the year of it's release, 2000, albums were released by Radiohead, Outcast, The Avalanches, Coldplay as horrid as it is, PJ Harvey, Elliott Smith, Modest Mouse, Quasimoto, Britney Spears, Common, and Eminem. That's 13. As you can see there's no room for this dreck.
Not my thing, didn't help I wasn't in the mood to try something like this either
That 3 stars on Allmusic is a fucking death sentence. If you don’t have someone fighting for you in there you might as well not have bothered. This is an affront to all the other electronic music on here because at least I can sorta get most of those. This has no real reason for being on here
Must have saved a lot of money on production costs using the same sad drum and bass loops for every song. Another shitty album this week. This project is the gift that keeps on giving....sigh.
It is a very bland album. I have not found any retrieving qualities. The first review mentions Massive Attack, and 'Mezzanine' would be a much more worthwhile inclusion. 5/10 [DROP]
It keeps ALMOST doing something interesting and then drops it and goes back for the preset drumbeats
Thoughts before listening: I have no idea what this is but I bet it's probably not something I need to hear. Review: This is really long, and not doing anything for me. Feels like non-descript 00s era dance music. Pretty inoffensive I guess, but I am giving this 1-star in the context of this project.
i found this to be a real slog. pretty boring.
Was gonna give it a 2 but I think Slum King brought that down for me. Albums like this make me really want to buy the book so that I can read a little more about why it was included. Because why was this included?
didn't listen, heard the preview on spitify and said hell nah
Not my thing but a couple bangers on there
Langweilige Anti-Musik.
what the heck is this. one star jesus christ
Listened to the first 4 songs. Same thing over and over again. I don't think I was in the right environment for how this is supposed to be consumed though. :) 1/5
Really not good. So many songs have the same generic house beat, and the songwriting and vocals are weak. If you told me this was A.I. music I would believe it
Actually 0.5 stars.what the hell is this shit??
Having some background with EDM, I expected to like this more than the rating would lead me to believe. What do you know, I hate it even more than I expected. I won't say there is zero reason why it was included in the list; the track Sincere being arguably the first 2-Step hit and expanding the genre significantly. The album on the other hand is about as repetitive as it gets, and the vocal features are even worse. Pretty much every track has the same grating fake-Soul vocal that struggles to be interesting even over the course of four minutes, let alone a 67-minute album. There are so many better representatives for 2-Step, why this album would be chosen over Is This Real is beyond me. I really don't have much else to say about this album other than how gratingly repetitive every aspect of it is. It may not be the worst EDM I've ever heard, but for it to be considered noteworthy enough to make this list is ridiculous.
Meh!
Ugh. I got free cds with the purchase of beer that were 100 times better than this.
Zuhause, Gerstetten, Deutschland. Zeitverschwendung! Müll! Ich kotze!
R and b is so lame
There's been a lot of talk in recent years about the resurgence of garage with many acts taking inspiration from the genre (PinkPantheress, NewJeans, Fred again just to name a few). To be honest, I've never really understood the hype, and now having listened to this, a garage album proper, I can say with confidence I *really* don't get the hype. This wasn't totally without merit - Elizabeth Troy delivers some stunning vocals, and I actually did kinda like I See, which is nestled in the middle of the tracklist, but good god as a while this was TIRESOME, even as background music. Just repetitive and flat.
1 - utter nonsense
I hate electronica and no album is going to change my mind on that.
Music for drag queens to unwind to after a long night in their heels.👠 This might be the longest feeling album in the history of the compact disc.
I hated this. Everything about it. We can’t have Quadrophenia in the 1001 but this makes the cut cause it was a favourite for the Mercury Prize years ago. Bloody ridiculous lol. Seriously though it’s just not my kind of music. Even with only listening to the original track listing it still seemed to go on forever. I definitely won’t be doing another listen later.
Hmm, I didn’t get this one. Maybe just not my genre so I can’t appreciate? Sounded like a W Hotel lobby.
It’s just not my style, I had a hard time listening to this
#190 Sincere ~ MJ Cole I'm quite tolerant to many forms of music, but I accidentally fell asleep whilst listening to this album and I couldn't recall a single thing even whilst I'm awake. This can't be a good sign at all.
Quite the contrary
Fuck me dude. What is with this list and these shitty, monotonous UK electronic albums? I get having some of the mainstays on here, even the ones that I don't personally care for like Fatboy Slim, but this is just ridiculous. MJ Cole's Sincere is one of the most mind-numbing nothing-burgers I've ever had the displeasure of listening to. In fact, this may genuinely be the most monotonous album I've ever listened to. EVERY SONG SOUNDS EXACTLY THE FUCKING SAME. These songs are indistinguishable from each other! This album is just "boots and cats and boots and cats" over and over again for 70 minutes and I hate it. The vocals are more present here than most albums of its kind and they're not all bad, but they don't do anything to feel special. But does this one song that all of the songs sound like sound good? Not really! It's the most basic-ass EDM beat you can think of. Nothing stood out to me at all. I said that the vocals weren't all bad, but some really hammered home the Britishness of it all. This is another one of those albums that only could've been added because the list was compiled by a bunch of like-minded British music journalists who like this stuff for some reason. I'm fucking tired of it. I still can't call this the worst EDM album I've heard. Haunted Dancehall is STILL the bottom of the barrel in that regard, but this isn't that far behind. I genuinely don't think that there's any reason for me to have listened to this. It's not the best album of 2000. It's not the best UK Garage album. It's just boring and annoying. This album is worthless. 1/5. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go listen to some Ween so I can get a taste of variety that I sorely lacked from the waste of time that was this album.
Not for me…2 hours of 💩 Be better 1001 admins!!!🤮
The beats sound so clean, but therefore to my ears they do get boring. I really disliked the MC work. I find with this sort of music if I manage to get into the right level of ignoring it some of the drum patterns make my foot tap, but then I realise I'm doing it and stop ignoring it and realise that I don't like it. There is some house music which has really catchy vocals and some nice synths, but the vocals here weren't memorable and the synths were meh. I looked up on Wikipedia why this was an important album and it didn't seem to know, therefore I'm not really convinced it is.
Boring UK 90's disco
Respectfully, this album can use an improvement.
Blind album and artist. Crappy DJ music that I don't ever want to listen to again.
Music was ok, the vocals were killing me… Night at the Roxbury vibes
Yeah not all that. As much a fan of electronic music as I may be this falls quite flat as very dated and unimaginative. Just sounds like the equivalent of retail music for the genre. The trance elements are there but it does nothing further to excite me or the rest of us here.
Got through the intro and said “nope”
Nah
booo this man
Ik heb hier zo kk weinig zin in
Skip 1/10
Albums this long and this bad seriously make me question why I’m bothering with this list
Shit det er det mest årtusindsskifte-agtige lort ever.
I’ve never heard of MJ Cole before, but I’m guessing he’s not associated with J. Cole. I’ll be honest, I’m not digging the vibe of this album cover. I’m not sure if it’s a criticism of high-end lifestyles or an endorsement of it. I see that this yet another electronic/house album, and I haven’t been wowed by many albums from that genre so far. I’ll give this album a… sincere chance though. I don’t know if my brain has been ruined by other electronic artists or what, but Sincere was another clunker of album to me. When I think of electronic music, I think of Daft Punk, Tycho, or Justice. Or I think of artists in electronic adjacent genres, like Chvrches, The XX, or Depeche Mode. All of those artists really excel at using electronic elements to create lush and memorable melodies, and melodies like that are what I’ve grown to associate with electronic music. But albums like Sincere just haven’t delivered on that notion. When I listen to Tycho’s Epoch, I know those arrangements like the back of my had, even if I haven’t listened to it in a year or so. I guess the point I’m trying to make is that this album, and others like it, just don’t deliver what I enjoy, and my preconceived notions of what these albums should be like might be making my experience even worse. I guess I’m just miffed that I haven’t enjoyed albums like this. But back to what I actually heard on Sincere. I didn’t hate this album initially. “Introduction” was a pretty good song. I liked that looped piano melody, and the song really developed as more elements were added. The vocals felt cheesy and dated to me, but it didn’t detract from my enjoyment. But as the album went on, I felt like there wasn’t much depth to these songs. They were all sleek and stylish, but I felt like there was nothing of substance to them. These songs didn’t create any atmosphere, and the arrangements weren’t particularly catchy or memorable. I just felt nothing listening to this album. Even though this album was a dud, “Crazy Love” and “Strung Out” were okay. “Crazy Love” felt really dated, but in a fun and nostalgic way. I enjoyed the silky vocals and the string arrangements. “Strung Out” had laid-back vibe that I enjoyed, and it had a good beat and awesome strings too. Other than that though, I… sincerely didn’t enjoy this album. I’ll see myself out.
The audacity to make an album this terrible and make it 73 minutes long needs to be studied.
I made it three songs and got physically angry at the repetition of “you gotta get an attitude attitude attitude attitude attitude attitude attitude attitude attitude attitude attitude attitude…” I have one now!!
I don’t understand who could listen to 2 hours of this, I did because I was driving on the teconic and need BOTH HANDS ON THE WHEEL and FULL CONCENTRATION and I did not enjoy it. Unfortunately this came on for the last 2 hours of my drive so it will forevermore feel like traffic on the FDR having to pee
Another EDM album!
Started out strong with a cool piano riff but only went downhill from there.
Nice of MJ Cole to name "Rough Out Here" after the experience of trying to listen to this album in one sitting.
Not my cup of tea.
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.
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
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
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.
Not my thing. Did not enjoy.
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
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
No.
Unseasoned chicken breast-ahh music
It almost sounds like the CD player is skipping
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.
Album so good it has 4 lines of text about it on Wikipedia. Yes. 4 lines.
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.
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.
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
Two tracks in and I knew nothing was going to change. Early noughties garage dance with shitty vocals. This was gash.
Incredibly annoying.
not very creative
Never heard of her, listened to her music. Not bad. Like her voice. Songs are better when it’s just her singing.
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
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.
Terrible and long
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.
Not my thing
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
2/10 Favorite: Crazy Love
Every track dounded the same after about 30 seconds
Garage style drum roll please..........!!!!! Shite
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.
Wtf is this garbage.
Ultraboring
:(
Poorly produced filler music. The YouTube ads were more enjoyable.
I couldn’t subject myself to this.
I'm only doing 1 disc of this. Generic british drum and bass.
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
Not my favourite - at all
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.
Booming beats, repetitive : the only positive is some occasional soulful flourishes. All in all, dull.
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.
Ah shit, here we go again.
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.
bad electronic beats
Stop at track two, you've heard them all.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Art is subjective. Garbage is not.
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.
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.
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.
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.
God this was just bad. Like the worst PS2 menu music vibe imaginable. Like a chimp trying to sound like Fatboy Slim.
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.
Another Electronic album I just did not enjoy very much. boring and uninteresting
Meh
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.
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
Not into the whole electronic sound and it was mostly a massive bore from start to finish
This is terrible wow
Jesus, cmon. So uninspiring and tedious. 1/5
more british electronic shit. i have a lot of "love at first sound" moments with the albums in this project and this was the opposite. i hated it from the moment the vocals came in on track 1 and it never grew on me. vapid, noisy garbage easily blown out of the water by any other pop soloist or DJ doing a similar thing at the same time. i'm not impressed by someone mixing random samples in their garage in 2000. the shrill beeping noise that my car dashboard makes every 60 seconds actually improved my listening experience for once. thank god we've moved on from this moment in DJ pop. 1/5 fuck a disc 2
No. Strong 1 just because it wasn't as ass as the other 1s.
Couldn’t get through all of it. Tapped out on Radio Interlude. I don’t need to hear this before I die. 1/5
Ah big ups to the mandem MJ Cole n dem rude boy Danny Vicious number 1 on the track. Bruv its proper pants mate, MJ Cole a ponce, got a gooner at the pub, up the Arsenal frreal, who say MJ Cole outchea reppin the blues the poofter. Shits mental, cor blimey and bloody hell, gwaan barney the chap down the chippie.
"Sincere"-ly bad. Department store background music AT BEST. Good God how often does crappy electronica have to appear on this list? And it's not even pioneering... this came out in friggin 2000! There are legitimately more talented teenagers with a laptop that can make better music. 2/10.
Soulless garbage. The only thing exceptional about this is that it's exceptionally bland.
1001 Interminably Long English Electronic Albums to Make You Wish You Were Dead
1 - The wetherspoons of music.
There's a reason this is in the bottom 20 of lowest rated album, its pretty much purely, offensively shite. And the fact this links through to a 2 disc "deluxe" version is even more offensive to me, personally. 2 hours of shit dance beats, twinkly electronic piano pieces, occasional jazzy trumpets, and breathless generic lyrics by repetitive "featured" singers makes for a NOT FUN TIME. WHEN WILL IT END? DID I HAVE REPEAT ON BY ACCIDENT AND IT'S LOOPED BACK AROUND? I'M ABOUT TO GOOGLE "HOW TO TIE A NOOSE". I'd give this 0 if I could, just strap the master recording to a rocket and blast it into the heart of the sun, rid us of this monstrosity... And I mean that, sincerely.
# 459 : 16/04/2025 : SINCERE Too long, boring and repetitive - first album in my 1001 albums to avoid before you die list….
Music - term used lightly - like this is incredibly tedious.
Hopefully this was only ever in one edition of this book, and only because they thought this absolutely fucking trash electronic music was going to be the future. I did not feel the vibes. Fuck off.
Makes me regret how strict I normally am with rating.
Jao brate. Umaraju me ovakvi albumi, pogotovo kad ih slušam ujutro. 1/5, 1.5/10
Again, I must ask...why are the albums that I like the least the longest albums? I regret saying previous albums on this list sound like what I would hear when shopping at American Eagle or Gap, because this album sounds exactly like what music coming from those stores' speakers would sound like. I want to feel bad giving this album a bad score but what I am listening to here isn't different from anything that is currently on any House and/or Electronica mix I have. It's background music at best.
terrible
Utter pish - total beige uneventful garbage
Why is this on the list? There is nothing special about it. It's about as generic as generic can get.
If I could give 0 I would. Drivel.
Liked the instrumental sections, but didn't get on with the vocal arrangements. This was not my cup of tea. Only got half way through.
Some very boring electronica tracks interspersed among some really terrible ones. Of all the electronica albums I’ve heard doing this project, and it’s been a lot, this might be the worst.
I sincerely don’t like this album.
baffled as to why this is included on the list, dead me would not be arsed at all about whether I listened to this or not.
If this had ended after track 7 I might’ve given it an extra star. The tracks that had catchy choruses or classical influences were ok. The others made me feel bored and/or slightly depressed. If I’m gonna listen to UK garage it needs to a) be less than 70 minutes long, and preferably, b) feature Craig David or Daniel Bedingfield. Which, now I see it written down, is a pretty low bar.
Meh…
This is garage, not electronic. It’s therefore instantly shit!
This album is on the wrong list. Should be on “1001 Albums That May Kill You if You Hear Them”. I read on Reddit the list from Dimery was highly UK-centric (biased). This is the first evidence of this for me. Just a terrible album to be in the 1001. It literally shows up on no other compiled lists. The real proof is on the Wiki page as this list is literally the ONLY accolade. The artist surely paid to be here. I had much more fun reading the review comments than listening to this trainwreck. Y’all’s a creative bunch!!
This is a dogshit reco
I could be watching re-runs of M*A*S*H instead of listening to this.
Good grief this is a tedious piece of one paced light entertainment.
Sincerely, stick to cycling mate. 1/5 8/2/25
if generative AI had been around in the year 2000, stealing better content from real artists and regurgitating its haphazard and generic gray sludge in its place, this is probably what it would've sounded like.
Just plain horrible
1. intro - 1.5 2. gamez - 1 3. attitude - 1.5 4. dezperado - 1.5 5. mj - 1 6. love - 1 7. mine - 1 8. zanctuary - 1.5 9. zee- 1 10. zincere - 1 11. ztrung - 1.5 12. rough - 0 13. zlum - 1.5 14. radio - 0 15. hold - 1 16. mind - 1 17. hold - 1 18. degreez - 1 19. zincere - 1 20. crazy - 1.5 21. hold - 1 22. love - 1 23. gamez - 0 24. zincere - 1 25. uuhy -
Generic and it just seemed to go on and on and on. Don’t know if it was because I found it boring but it seemed to never end!
Crap
I hate music!!!!!
Not for me at all.
Absolutely sucked. No stars 1001 album worthy: No - 29/50