Reviews (page 6 of 7)
Some enjoyable moments, especially the more syncopated beats. A lot of stuff that's not really my style though.
Meh
Is this good? I mean, not really. It’s fine. Repetitive and vocals are sometimes cringe. Beats are usually well put-together but kinda sounds like a mall soundtrack, or music for a bad racing video game. Do I want to hear this again? No, but I wouldn’t be upset if I did.
A wholly unremarkable album, potentially good for some ambient noise, but that’s about it in my opinion
Didn't know being a remixer was a thing. First off Danny Vicious was extremely annoying. STFU, dude. The repetition in the songs is tiresome as well, like in "You Are Mine." I guess I was expecting verse-chorus-verse, as opposed to a remix of a song I have never heard. In the end, I just got bored with it. I didn't hate it, but it just doesn't interest me at all. Next.
Sincerly
They had so many of the cocaines that they started thinking that crew was spelt with a k.
This album was boring, repetitive, and formulaic. It lost steam almost immediately and it never picked back up. The album was also about an hour or so too long. I did like "I See" and "Sanctuary" as standout tracks, but overall this album felt more like a showcase of MJ Cole's production skills rather than an enjoyable album listening experience.
Generic Electronic, inoffensive but nothing that made my ears prick up :(
Very 90's. Is this house music?
I can imagine a mood where I am into listening one of these songs. As an album it's uninspiring at best.
My album of the day gets refreshed just before 11:30 pm. So, it's New Years Eve and I'm excited about what I'll get for my first album of the year. And I get this. What a mixed bag. Plus, in iTunes, there were several versions of some songs or were mislabeled. Quite a bit of this was trash. But there were a couple of respectable songs in there (Free My Mind). But a lot of it was nondescript. Ok for what it is, background music at a metro bar or if they're lucky, part of the soundtrack for some streaming series. But the album is definitely not worthy of a 1001 list. Scale: 5 - My absolute favorites. 4 - Albums I like. 3 - I enjoyed listening to it but wouldn't seek it out. 2 - Didn't like. 1 - Absolute shit.
House music? It's find background music. Nothing grabbed me.
So much of this album feels like background music to a video game. No thanks. Favorite track: Rough Out Here
Another electronic album, yihaaaaa......... Not.... Just more of the same old, you listen to one song and you've heard it all. Nothing exciting, nothing that stands out or is worth remembering
2.75
Good ol’ UK Garage. But not really good. I never liked this early 2000s rave era electronica to begin with. I don’t think it is something you NEED to hear before you die. This record is pretty repetitive. There are some cool moments, but it’s repetitive nature and overall length of the record ruin it for me.
Yet another 90s/early 2000 electronic album...
New agey
Not much of a dance album guy, couldn’t get into it
Not for me
This really didn't do much for me. Unremarkable.
90s bloat never gets better. "Let me see if I can fill this cd with music" is an atrocity, even if the music is passable.
Un bel exemple de coiffeur house nous est offert ici. Une charmante jeune femme vient nous proposer un shampoing pour lancer les hostilités, avant de nous aposer un tablier autout du cou. C'est alors que le coiffeur principal vient faire son entrée, prodiguant de savants coups de ciseaux, tout en nous demandant comment ça va. Nous repartons malheureusement en trouvant que la coupe est trop courte (au contraire de l'album).
Great voice. Could barely get thru the first hour so I’m assuming the second hour was like the first.
I like a lot of the beats, especially the drum and bass featured on the first two tracks and then popping up elsewhere. But I don’t really care for the pairing with the singing of Elisabeth Troy and the rapping of Nova Casper.
There is scant web info on this album and just a bit about MJ himself. He bested Dr. Dre to win 2001 Best Producer for this album at the MOGO (Music of Black Origin) Awards. That’s impressive although I had to read the date several times because I said 1991 in my head more than once. Thats the sound I hear. One that was 10 years behind its time. I skipped next before the end of almost every track.
Meh
Utterly antiseptic and more synthetic than sincere.. Will age about as well as cubic zirconia, though one suspects some stylish people in stylish capitals found this a stylish auditory accessory for at least a season. (Note: from the review linked on the official site: “Many will argue that 2-Step/UK Garage is a shallow, one-dimensional genre that will fade like overchewed gum. However, albums like “Sincere” go to prove that UK Garage is more than a fad.” Editors seemed to go with “fad” [one thinks “shallow and one-dimensional” to be more on point descriptively] as it’s been pulled from the official list and is now “ex.”)
Well, I didn't actively hate it so I can't give it one star... but I DID actively DISLIKE it so it's not getting more than two from me. The main problem is that it seems willfully lacking in self-awareness. It feels as though Mr. Cole is purposefully looking away from his influences and is unwilling to acknowledge the boundaries that he's trampling on. Everything he puts out here he presents with a totally straight face. He wants this taken seriously which is a problem because much of it is really very cheesy and silly. And it seems that even the listening public agreed as it only reached #14 in the UK. Why THIS, of all the UK Garage albums, merits inclusion in the list is beyond me.
Eh
Supermarket friendly UK Garage. The beats are desperate to be good, glitchy & bass heavy but the cheesy R&B vocals ruin it - and I mean really ruin it. It's like a kid who wants to be daring but then runs back to his mum. Not bad, just really really really dull. Best Tracks: Introduction; Bandelero Desperado; Strung Out
Just not for me, the songs are too same-y and get a little annoying pretty quickly.
2 Didn't particularly like this one
Two UK techno albums in a row, boy am I lucky! This one more PS1 racing game soundtrack type garbage. Went for an eternity, too. 2/5.
Inoffensive sort of background music. But pretty generic.
I could get into some of the tracks, but they were few and far between.
Almost as boring as the album cover suggests.
"Sincere" is the debut album from English Garage DJ MJ Cole. English Garage is a genre of dance music originating from England in the early to mid90's talking elements from R&B, jungle, dance pop and also encorporating gospel piano riffs and female vocals. Considered more soulful than Chicago House also big at the time. MJ Cole worked as a tape operator and sound engineer in that musical area before making his own album using a sampler and Atari ST. Truthfully, I had trouble getting into this. Almost all the songs had beats similar to Bell Biv DeVoe's "Poison." It also kind of reminded currently of Disclosure. Some songs of note here. "Crazy Love" features Elisabeth Troy on vocals with her soulful voice. Nice keyboard intro and progression. Got that good beat. "Sincere" was the biggest single and features Nova Casper & Jay Dee on vocals. It has a cascading keyboard melody and creates almost a more chill/jazzy atmosphere. Maybe it was the repetitiveness of the songs or the genre itself but I had trouble focusing on this. It is not bad sounding by any times but just grab me. If you're more into the 90's house-type music, this might for you.
Boring
I genuinely find this album's inclusion on this list baffling. This album seems like super standard 90s techno released after the 90s had finally shuffled off. After reading a bit more about UK Garage techno, I understand a little bit more, but continue to be confused. This is one of the few albums on this list that I won't make it even close to the whole way through. It's just uninspired and uninspiring. 2/5
pop/rock/house com mistura autentica mas nada sensacional
Garage that's neither too dumb nor too smart, and more than hooky enough. Female voices add texture. Much of a muchnes but in the most pleasant way.
A bit inconsistent and yet redundant at the same time. Songs are all over the place. Not a must listen, but I guess it's ok as a UK garage token album. Best tracks: Rough Out Here and Slum King
British garage house a couple songs sound like persona 5 tracks 2.5
the voice was just incredibly obnoxious and there was potential but it didn’t reach it…
I like the idea, but i could not connect with this. There's a lot of effort that goes into creating music like this, I get that, but this ends up grating to me. Repetitive and mostly the vocals are ... not good at all. actually I think I'd probably have boosted this a full star if it were all instrumental.... (although some of the repetition is jarring). I just don't like it and wouldn't listen again. 3/10 2 stars
Not my jam.
Tja. Ich kann mir vorstellen, warum sich Leute das gerade anhören. Ich kann‘s mir allerdings größtenteils nicht anhören. Grundsätzlich ist gegen eine derartig heterogene Platte nichts einzuwenden, für mich sind daher aber nur sehr wenige Lichtblicke darauf.
Not my type of music and I sort of thought it was all over the place. That 2000 era beat was driving me crazy.
Not for me
Crazy Love is okay, the rest is absolute balls.
This does not hit a boring bland generic electronic album that was not worth my time 🙄
It had it's moments, but it didn't capture my attention. With the little that I know about electronic music, this seemed a tad boring and generic sounding. Really not much for me to enjoy, move on...
I got tired of this halfway through.
Yeah nah. Background music for people who don't really care about music.
Ça s’écoute bien en travaillant. Intéressant, mais trop long. Il y a de belles trouvailles, mais il y a aussi une genre de recette qui rend les tounes prévisibles.
EDM album out of the UK Garage scene. Beats are uniquely jittery and almost erratic, creating an interesting foundation for the smooth padded synths and jazzy samples. This is all layered over some lovely vocals, many of which are lent by Elizabeth Troy. I am not a fan of the UK Garage scene. I find it to be clunky and somewhat abrasive in how it handles the beats, which is usually the crux of the genre.
Not for me really. Some of the songs are ok at best.
Dance music isn’t my thing
This is not my style, so the number of stars has nothing to do with the quality but has everything to do with how much this album resonated with me.
My, my what do we have here? Makes me feel like a virgin princess being aggressively gang raped in the shower. Each song rips me open just a little bit more. The scars will never heal. The tears will never dry.
I did not need to listen to this album before I die. I did not need to listen to it at all except maybe in a club in 2001.
Bien aime en machant hehe mais lestyle est pas trop pour moi. 2.95
Meh not great.
Might deserve a three, but there is over two hours of this?I got through about 35 seconds total on four different songs. Had enough. Once again, who the fuck put this on the list???
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
Ich hab so eine Melodie im Kopf... Ja cool machen wir eine Platte. Oder etwa ähnlich.
No time for it.
So boring it's painful. All of the other albums even if I didn't like them at least have so possible way of arguing they should be on the list but not this one.
Will (probably) come back. Wish I didn't though. Just bland house. They say 1001 albums you must listen to but I disagree sometimes.
tried, didnt like. Not my thang at all
I know this site skews older but if anyone has seen that episode of SpongeBob where he and Squidward think that Mr. Krabs is a robot and there is that song he plays? That's what this album sounded like for the whole runtime to me. 2/10
I’m just gonna give this a two, I think I enjoy what is on the album, but I can’t just sit and listen to two hours of house or electronic music. I think if it was in a club or in the right setting it would be great, but that’s not really how I’m listening to the challenge. I’ve enjoyed what I’ve heard.
This is the first time I've been completely nonplussed on why an album was included in the 1001. I can usually discern a cultural importance or see the art in what's been created, but not this time. This funky British house/drum and bass collection is short on creativity and even shorter on enjoyable hooks. Obviously the creator of the 1001 has a love for the genre because there has already been quite a few entries, and I'm only 190 albums in. That's the only way to justify this record (that I will never revisit) being on the list.
Sincerely, this album is a dud...
DNF. There are some decent ideas here with actual instrumentation including piano, and rap, but the house beats are repetitive, subject matter dull, and less than halfway through it’s bloated 72-minute (!) runtime, I pulled the plug.
Boring slog of an album that seems, even for EDM music, to be lame. If there's something that I'm not getting about this genre I really don't care what it is. I think there might have been one song that held my interest. Most undeserving album for this list yet.
Nope. Sounds like bedroom dj. Repetitive and dated.
656 albums in, and this is the worst one so far. Far too long and with no redeeming qualities. I listened to all 75 minutes in severe pain and boredom.
Alright if you’re a chav I guess but otherwise absolutely brain numbing
the genre is listed as "uk garbage". oh wait its supposed to be "uk garage"? makes sense, they probably wouldve called it uk rubbish
Elite level inessentialiality.
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.