Sincere

No

It’s always funny when you see the Wikipedia excerpt and it has a couple sentences and then this album is in the 1001 albums list. Clearly no one else likes this album except the guy that made this list. I know I don’t. Another album on this list that probably shouldn’t be. This is just a 2000s club Dj mix. Not sure what’s the point. 2.3/10

This is a perfect example of the British bias on this list. It’s nothing noteworthy. It’s boring and repetitive to the point of annoyance.

Heard before: no New Jack really hasn't aged well, and I thought it sounded like a TRS-80 in a tin can at the time. This wants to be an evolution of that, but even when the performances over the top are good, the beats are really bad. And it's a producer's record. I like my music either colder or warmer; this is just tepid, try-hard hotel-lobby music. The fake designer shop bag on the cover kind of says it all. Top tracks: Tired Games, Sanctuary, Sincere (Re-Cue'D)

Painfully soulless and anonymous dance album that gives this book a bad name.

Music for guys that wears a fedora.

The fact that this album is present in this list is an insult to all users of the site and proves that it is all just a big charade to plug as many British artists as possible.

Better contender for an album you don't need to listen to before you die.

Seemed okay to start but only because my last album was Sex Packets... Gotta remember the title of the book says 'albums you must HEAR', not 'albums you must listen to in their entirety'.

Terrible British electrocheese

This has to be AI generated. There's no way anyone has actually listened to this awful, repetitive, annoying, boring excuse for club music

Not for me. Once again the dance music just doesn’t do anything for me. Perhaps I just don’t get it.

meh, I wan't super impressed. Had a hard time getting through it. 2 stars. nah 1

Wrong list.

Meh..

Nup What is this?

Arrgghh... a 2hr+ british house dj album. No fucking way I'm listening to this whole thing. You know it's going to be good when the second album of the double album only has 1 song that's cracked 100k plays on spotify. Did all these beats come from a Casio keyboard?? What is this? Made it about 10 tracks with frequent skipping. Albums like this really kill the credibility of that book.

Absolutely not. That’s the review.

Another enigma album on the list. It's the first time I have heard about Mj Cole or about any of his songs, and after listening to the whole record, I'm not really surprised. It is basically a simple house beat, with some other instruments added on top and an atmospheric vocal as a topping. Although this description applies to many bands, like Massive Attack at times, or anything based on samples, it just didn't work this time. I wasn't into that album, I didn't like any song, I didn't feel the atmosphere at all. Very below average experience and honestly, I'm wondering, what was so special about this album in the first place, to show up on a list like that. Probably 1000 albums is a bit too many, for such a short history of modern music.

I didn't know this app had ads now. Number of albums left to review: 519 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 230 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 110 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 141 - including this music for ads.

Did not gel with this at all really. Not my jam in general, and this doesn't seem to be a particularly good example of the genre? The 'Be Sincere' motif does a lot of heavy lifting, I didn't count but it felt like it featured on at least a third of the tracks. That said, there's one guy who contributes on a couple of tracks (Danny Vicious) who is the most obvious inspiration for Kurupt FM - they even do an interlude where they pretend to be running a pirate radio station and it's just as cheesy and painful as the worst Grinda bits... 'all the text message crew'... but with a bit more layered in. 1/5

Nah.

This is boring and pedestrian. Generic throw-everything-into-the-mix electronic garbage. The singers are so darn generic it hurts to listen to. Maybe at the time of release it was something, but this is just bad.

MJ Cole is an artist I’ve never heard of, although sometimes I think I might live under a rock in regards to popular music so that may not mean much! The deluxe version of this album is over 2 hours long, so I think I’ll still with the standard edition, thank you very much. Songs I already knew: none Favourites: none When this album started, I thought, “We’ll this is certainly different.” It’s definitely not the type of album I would gravitate towards, being garage music. During track one, I was unsure but felt like I’d give it a chance. However, by track 5 I’d had enough. It reminds me of the type of music chavs would have playing from their phones as a teenagers, while they were trying to beat me up for looking different. Admittedly, that does bring in some bias, but the music is genuinely boring anyway. Somebody tell MJ Cole that it’s ok to have a different tempo once in a while.

vibey not my style\

I don’t often give one-star ratings but when I do, it’s ALWAYS some British electronic garbage.

what the fuck is that boring ass house music

Sorry , but it’s a total whack. Dont even know how it made it to the must listen before you die list.

Repetitive and boring electronica that shows the author of this list did not realize 1001 was such a large number. He fixed his mistake by throwing in random, generic British albums.

Meh

I've been thinking recently how I've never given an album a 1. What would it take to give one? There's so much variety to music and so much to possibly find endearing in any style that it should be pretty rare. I'm not sure this album is that low. Probably a 2. But I felt like handing a 1 out. And I was looking to skip through to the end or just turn it off from the second song and all of its annoying cut-out and skipping effects, and loops. Tired Games was a fitting name. So I think I have a new criteria. If I can't stand to even finish the album, that's a bad sign. I let the whole thing play but Crazy Love and Free My Mind were about the only things passable to my ears.

It’s not terrible. I do enjoy some electronic music, this one just isn’t up my alley. 1.

*yawn* I’m only 3 songs in and already bored out of my mind. Let me play the title track and see if it’s any different. Nope, still bored.

Repetitive random cringe

No, sorry. Not sure this one earns its place on the list, at least not for me.

This was some boring shit and it was way too long.

Bit boring

Lyrically and musically very uninspiring. Could've gotten 2 stars if it would've ended a few songs sooner.

Like kje sånn musikk

Pretty sure this is what NPCs listen to.

This is barely an album, more a sample collection.

I found this challenging to listen to, rather dull and repetitive. I have to admit I didn't finish the album, sorry MJ Cole.

Only managed to listen to a quarter of the album, thought it was shite. What is this album doing on this list?

Not for me. Perhaps in a club 15 years or so ago.... Even then, probably not. Big MC Grindah vibes on the radio interlude

Sounded like the music to the Multiplayer levels of Sonic Adventure 2 Battle.

Not interested

wut?

This hurts my ears.

First thought: this music makes me feel like I'm browsing a shitty store at a mall. Unfortunately, this didn't change as I sat through the rest of the album. I love good dance music but this feels like the most generic, blah version. I really don't understand why this is on the list as I feel like there have to be more groundbreaking or better versions of this subgenre of dance music. I don't hate it, I just personally find it very boring. Standout Tracks: N/A

Very boring and bland electronic music

2/10

I'm wondering if the people who gave this a positive review or even the people involved in making this album could pick any of these songs out of a lineup. I'll admit that electronic music isn't always a favorite genre of mine but I like some standout artists and albums. I'm definitely not a person who thinks you can't make good music using computers or that dance music can't be interesting but this is the kind of music that people hear and (wrongly) believe those things. Blah, blah, good beat, blah, blah you can dance to it, etc.but boring without the use of club drugs.

Not for me. So dated sounding. I really hated it.

Electronic garbage

Dull. Not for me.

helt värdelöst. det är som att svärfar tar dig som ett jävla pendeltåg

There are albums that shine forever in my personal music realm. Not this one.

Not really my thing. I'm going to be a little bit harsh and give it a 1 just because I don't do that very often.

No me gusta

Boring

Shite

So irritating I only listened to the first 7 or 8 tracks.

My first failure. I may return to be a completionist but I can't suffer through 2 hours of the same house beat in one sitting. So redundant.

Perfect for fans of vanilla ice cream, How I Met Your Mother, generic drugs, well liquor, and overall boredom in general.

Meh

Je connais maintenant le UK garage. La pochette ne m’inspirait pas du tout. C’est finalement moins pire que je pensais. Il y a certains bons éléments, certains bons beats, mais à part une musique de fond, ce n’est pas vraiment mon bag. Et c’est vraiment trop long.

05/05/2022 lmao, what? Over 2 hours of repetitive noise. Absolutely not for me.

Música lounge para un bar de medio pelo

Deserves to be forgotten.

My ears just threw up

The toast sandwich of music

Ughh This wasn't good at all.. Crazy love was the only song I made it all the way through.

Not really for me.

Dance and electric that is NOT for me. Usually I can ignore this stuff or put it on in the background and somewhat enjoy, but something hit me weird with this and it put me on edge. Nope.

I couldn't do it.

CRAP

Not a fan.

Sunday afternoon R&B for people who don’t want to listen to anything outside their comfort zone. Hypocritical perhaps, but meh!

Sounds like somebody had a demo version of Frooty Loops and went crazy with all the preloaded samples. Very boring

C'est quoi c'est de la house ?

flemme c'est bon là oh ntm l'album de 2h

Really don't understand what this is doing here. Because it's British?

I think my hatred of this album goes back to me not liking dance clubs. And probably even further back to high school dances. Either way, I think I would need drugs to enjoy it. File it in the trash bin. Highlight Track: "I see".

It's a very rare occurrence for me to turn off albums early. Usually only happens with double albums that I need to adjust to. When I really need to prevent myself from going crazy, I come back to it later that day to give it another go. But I still just wanted to shut this off after just a few tracks. The tracks are so repetitive and boring. There are some sound effects I think are unique and are of some interest, but nothing significant and just shows the potential they could put in a decent album. It's just filler club music. Some things I like, such as the trippiness of "Bandelero Desperado" for some 30 second span in the middle and the catchiness of "Crazy Love" (which distracts from its repetition). It feels like a high schooler messing around with some electronic noises to sound cool, bringing in some guest singers to avoid people from focusing on the drawn-out sequences. The only reason I'd come back to this album is if I was desperate to steal generic club tracks. I would never want to listen to the whole thing from start to finish again. 2-Step/UK Garage is a shallow, one-dimensional genre that faded like overchewed gum, with this album proving that UK Garage is nothing more than a fad.

This genre is not for me

Didn't want to finish it. Unsure if I disliked the music or the godawful album cover more

Thought it might reach the minimum of good mindless music to program to. It didn't. No bright spots. Didn't know when to end in the middle of the deluxe, but i had enough.

I have no idea how this is a "must listen to" album. It is very average at best. Never heard of this group, never heard of any of the songs. Maybe it gets better with time, but for me, it has to be a 1/5 for now.

No

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