Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Such a vibe… minus that one song wtf was that about

[Picture me having just listened to the Morrissey album we just had hoping to hear something good and clicking on this without looking at the genre. And the music starts and it feels promising. And then I go to pick up the remote to turn on the lyrics just to find that there aren’t any.] *lights down* *lights back up* [Picture me rocking back and forth on our couch, hugging my knees to my chest and verbally reminding myself of the promise I made to listen to at least half of each song before skipping it, even it I feel like ripping my ears of my head.] So anyways, this album isn’t really for me. I know I’m being dramatic but I’d give it a 1.5 which in my system counts as a 1. Season: Explicit Fan Parody of the movie Robots Favorite Song: I Stole Your Car

Pretty cool, somewhere between Portishead and the Prodigy

Idk

A little bit too repetitive for me. 2.8

Band name tells me joke band. Which is fine. Let’s see. Heck, the album name tells me joke band. Let’s still see So it’s sort of a Chemical Brothers, Daft Punk thing. Let’s keep seeing… Yep the last assumption is correct and you know what? I’m digging this My only fault with the album is that there is no breakaway hit. No banger. No squish mitten type isht. Know what I’m saying? Choice cut: shellback

Ok

A great album to have on in the background.

Yeah, a bit of moody trip hop. I’ll happily receive that.

Kind of a groovy album. Not sure I'd run back, but kind of reminds me of Nightmares on Wax or some such. 3/5

Unique hip-hop beats

Off the bat, AWESOME cover art. Also, a really fantastic opening track, one that seems to demonstrate the mission statement right up front. The rest however? Oh man. Anyone happen to tell these guys that maybe these songs meander just a little bit too much? Nearly every song is over 5 minutes long and you feel it. That voice in "The Rake" sounds like what I imagine the "bogos binted" meme to sound like too. Laughable. Also why does it randomly go post-rock at the end? Not complaining but wow. That's unexpected. Hello Mogwai.

Starts off with promising energy, gets weird and repetitive, which I guess is OK for a club. Goes totally off the rails with the laughably explicit The Rough and the Quick. Didn't understand I Stole Your Car, and They're Hanging Me Tonight seems an apt postlude to an OK-but-mostly-forgettable album.

Ok, now that sounds like a computer

I heard about your aim but unfortunately you missed your target

Favourite Songs; Keeping Pigs Together Shellback They're Hanging Me Tonight

Sick background music. Love it.

Decent electronica downtempo album. The random verse that’s just verbatim sex instructions was wild. But the album's not bad for something to throw on in the background.

No Joy

Surprisingly rad! Good music to pretend you’re in blade runner to

8/10

I love this! Never heard of it before and am delighted even though I’m 26 years late to the party. But it’s a hell of a party. This will be in rotation at the next party I throw. 5 stars

Osittain ihan kivaa meininkiä mutta välillä vähän hakemista. Toimi hyvin Kyproksen auringon alla

Ihan jännää ja erilaista, mutta ei se kuitenkaan ihan kanna.

Kyl mää sillain tajuan mistä tässä on kyse, mutta ongelma on ehkä liian rajut sillisalaatti-tarjoilut. Bonarina voi kai laskee, että elektronisen jumpan lisäks on ihan luomuakin seassa. Eikä elektroilussakaan mitään vikaa oo, mutta yhtenäisempiä kokonaisuuksiakin löytyy. Homman nimenä on veltto ja liian monet biisit menee "kivaa taustamusaa" -kategoriaan.

Yllätyksekseni vähän jopa diggailin tätä. Ihan kivaa taustamusaa ainakin näin kerran kuunneltuna. En tiedä silti tuleeko tähän palattua koskaan enää.

Really did not do anything for me

Hardly worth the designation of "must hear", but if I rated these based on that threshold, I would give almost all of them one star. I enjoyed it well enough.

This one has to be a nostalgic thing for the author of the books. Remember how when you were little your family had that handful of movies on VHS that your family loved watched all the time but nobody else really cared about them or had even heard of them? Yeah that's got to be how this is. Even the Wikipedia page just says basically 'this is an album that came out. It's in the 1001 Albums book' and leaves it at that. So needless to say I have never heard of this album or band like 99% of everyone else doing this project. This album really does sound more like a soundtrack for a sci fi movie from the early 2000s. It plays in the background and doesn't grab your attention at all. I guess it isn't bad if you like this kind of music. I wouldn't call it trip hop, its much more electronica than that. I think it would be a great idea to replace this with a more deserving album though and I wonder if this record made the cut for more than one edition of the book. 2/5

he opening track is easily the best one here. The production is great overall and there are some great beats, but any song with MC Det is ruined by some annoying vocal manipulation. It's a mid 4

Lots of good atmospheres, and some less good. I’m satisfied

Average

Weird but interesting

similar experience to Nitin Sawhney's Beyond Skin. the ideas are pretty cool, but they are never interesting enough to keep me for the entirety of the song. vocals/vocal samples are really not doing it for me either. fine coding music

Sehr elektronisch. Vereinzelt mit Gesang. Für mich überwiegend untinteressant. 2/5

ідеальна обкладинка для подібного, троха тріпхопу?? нот ріллі. але нагадує жвавіший портісхед. Десь троєчка ай гесс

A soundtrack of urban Britain\ Some kind of kink The rough and the quick

what a cool sound

Really groovy beats and a unique blend of sounds and genres. I love the fat bass sound on this record and how the music turned more jazzy as the album went on. However, many of the vocal tracks annoy me, so that brings down the rating by a star. And the lyrics to “The Rough and the Quick” were… interesting. Favourite song: Bussing, Belladonna

Is it British? Does it belong on the list? How do I feel about it? British✔️ Belong on list - 🤷‍♀️ hard to say. The list actually knows its downtempo. I think. Don’t actually know. How do I feel? 🤷‍♀️ again hard one for me. Like a lot. But it doesn’t do background well if you’re inactive and it certainly isn’t for dedicated listening. The vocal loops can get REALLY annoying. The beats are good. In the background chopping vegetables, folding laundry, cleaning generally? This works great. Actually not good for driving. 3 Boolean: True?

Well, they didn’t succeed.

Es klingt wie ein endloser nächtlicher Groove, der ständig verspricht, gleich spannend zu werden – und es dann doch nicht schafft. Der Mix aus Trip-Hop, Jazz und Breakbeats ist stilvoll, aber oft zu zerfasert und ohne echten Zug. Viel Atmosphäre, wenig Substanz.

It's not Soul Coughing and it's definitely not Massive Attack. It's not even The Crystal Method.

I listened to most of this. I mostly liked it. A bit too electronic for my personal taste.

Never heard of this band. But apparently the bands I've never heard of could make up the lion's share of an idiosyncratically constructed book described by some as biased and un-Australian. Competently executed electronic pop music. Very dull. Background music at best for the most part. I started listening to the album and got confused that the intro to the first song was going on for so long, then looked down and saw that it was about 4 minutes into a 4.5 minute song. I Stole Your Car is a promising title, and indeed that song is pretty good. And easily the best. Not terrible, but not good. Are they British? Oh, yes. Allmusic says: "Red Snapper never appear to run out of ideas or energy, and excellent production and recording unite the disparate styles into a jewel of an album." So ... Allmusic, I guess They got to you, too?

We've had to deal with a lot of metal in our first 120 albums, so it feels odd to say this, but this might be the most "not my genre" of all records so far. Whatever this is (acid jazz? trip hop?) it is very very not to my taste. I started listening and thought, oh no, an instrumental album. Then a song played with someone "singing" and I thought, holy cow it got WORSE. Just 10000000% not for me. Just thinking about it irritates me. Can I say it's bad? No. Just very annoying to me personally.

It was interesting experience. Like it.

Len Houmous’ aim was always to satisfy. Especially in the bedroom. 3.1 2/11 Some Kind Of Kink

Most of this faded into the background. Except for The Rough And The Quick with those absurdly sexual lyrics. I thought Alaska Street sounded interesting but I already forgot almost everything else here.

Shite electronic toilet music

2.8/5 Some grooves. It was fine.

66/100. Ended up with mixed feelings for this album. I found it very interesting and it put me in a lot of different states of mind. Sometimes it's very dark, at times it can feel a bit like floating and some songs for me were very serene. However, most of the songs overstay their welcome since all of them are 5-ish minutes long. I don't really know about its replay value.

This was pretty good!

This gradually lost my interest after a song or two. Not my genre, but had some nice grooves at times. They eventually became tedious.

I'd consider "The Rough and the Quick" to be the title track here. Okay, but WAY too long. Overall, it misses its mark.

Really felt like I shouldn't be listening to some of these songs at work! Interesting album though, I don't know if it's mind-blowing to me but I didn't hate it. Felt VERY of it's time. Had a lot of variety though which is cool.

This one piqued my interest back circa 2000 as it looked cool and some magazines had said it was good. I never ended up listening to it though, which is a shame as it's a great little album; smooth, bassy and beatsy - 17-year-old me would, in fact, have loved it. 40-something-year-old me appreciates it on his behalf, with some caveats. There are some excellent moments, but also what now feels like a few slightly played-out cliches here and there. Manages to walk the line between post-clubbing chillout and pre-clubbing house party mood. Shame I don't really do any clubbing or house parties anymore. But if I did, this would be added to the collection.

lamento no escucharlo entero, pero estoy de campamento y es un poco mierda

Interesting snapshot of urban London. 3.

some good ambient tracks

Feels very generic. Nothing particularly interesting going on here, move on.

4/10 Middling to poor dance music, with absolute repetition. Kinda Death in Vegas, but without the couple of good songs. The last three songs are dog crap, a slow death to a poor album

Una joya del nu-jazz e instrumental hip-hop que ha envejecido bien como una banda sonora urbana de cine noir contemporáneo. En el plano de diseño formal, la producción teje una arquitectura sofisticada: la interacción entre el contrabajo acústico, las guitarras distorsionadas y la batería orgánica logra un entretejido que da claridad al diseño sónico, aunque mantiene de forma deliberada segmentos quebrados y voces absurdas que rompen la estructura tradicional para inyectar una necesaria textura de calle. La ejecución física del trío y sus colaboradores desborda una fuerza y calidez que transmiten autenticidad pura, imponiendo una autoridad superior dentro del panorama electrónico por su capacidad de tocar en vivo lo que otros programaban en computadoras. Cortes envolventes como "Someminds" y el vértigo cinemático de "Bussing" configuran un testimonio conmovedor, crudo y real que opera como un sutil llamado a la conciencia sobre la prisa, la paranoia y la belleza fragmentada de la metrópolis moderna. Un álbum cuya cadencia envolvente y constante sensación de paz y fluidez lo convierten en un catalizador versátil para múltiples usos, destacando de forma brillante para acompañar el ejercicio, la conducción o estimular el trabajo creativo.

I guess this is ok background music? I’m comfortable with silence, but if you’re not, this can fill the void. Otherwise, pretty banal.

Not really a dance music guy but this was fun and silly and raunchy. I'd put it on to alienate a crowd.

deixei de fundo enquanto trabalho, ate q deu uma brisadinha nota 3/10

This is literally just the soundtrack to every car commercial since 2000.

Hard to work out why this is on the list. Pretty forgettable electronica. Would feel right at home in the club scene in Trainspotting where everyone is off their chops. I guess it would be ok as background focus music at work or when studying - but definitely not for my general listening pleasure.

#398 It’s decent, maybe the sort of electronic music I could like with more listens but at the same time, it felt a little unremarkable. ‘Some Kind of Kink’ seemed familiar so maybe I’ve heard that before somewhere. Heard before? ❌ Would I revisit?❓ Listen before you die? ❌ Fave track(s): Some Kind of Kink Rating: 6/10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fattar inget!?!???!!

Lyssnade på de 3 första låtarna. Det var nog för att stänga av albumet och aldrig lyssna på det igen

this sounds like royalty free electronica music. I cant find anything here that really sets it apart from the other albums that have shown up on this list, or that exist outside of it. outside The Rough and the Quick you can skim through this one.

I mean it’s fine but how is it any different than any of the other late 90s early 2000s electronic album. Just listen to the Chemical Brothers right?

Kind of dig it as background work music

Never heard of this outfit before but it’s right up my street. Laid back electro beats with MCs. Can definitely see me coming back to this a fair bit.

I have never heard of this band or any of the songs on this album. The group is evidently a British instrumental band that uses guest artists as vocalists on some of their songs. This album is a combination of just instrumentals and songs with vocals. It's electronic dance music, for the most part, although a couple of songs are slower. I found very little information on this album and this band out there. I'm not a huge fan of EDM, so it's hard for me to judge if this is any good or not. It's extremely repetitive and not interesting at all. One of the songs with vocals is just bizarre. I can't find one piece of information on this album that would convince me it should have made a list like this. That was an hour of my Saturday morning I won't ever get back, honestly.

2000s electronica. Pretty cool spy movie electro vibes. Some anoying vocal samples.

Another album that is purely just a “this is fine” release that shouldn’t be on a list like this.

Recognized the sample from Rock On. Otherwise this did nothing for me.

great music, vocals were a little off for the music, though

4/5

The beats here are actually really good, it's just a shame that a bunch of the songs have really obnoxious vocal samples. This album has a pretty good vibe going on despite the annoyingness of the vocals. It is really wild how many British Electronic artists are on this list, I really think we could have cut like 10 of them and still had enough of a representation. I just found this great French Electronic album: Idealism by Digitalism, that blows this album out of the water, but I guess they would never add it to this list, because they aren't British. This is like a 3.75, but I'll round up to a 4 on this occasion. Low 4.

It was chill late 90s - early 00s electronic background music. Decent enough. I can see the influence of their contemporaries. Solid 3 stars. Not compelling enough too come back to.

Enjoyed a few of the songs and recognised some of them

Decent enough album. The last few songs were my favourite. Probably wont listen to the full album again but might listen to a couple of sons here and there

ok - first listen. Never came across this back in the day. Nothing particularly original and its clearly from the early 00s, but I like what it is. Makes for a pleasurable listen in the background. 2.5

Our Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper 2000 Genres: Electronica Styles: Trip Hop, Leftfield 1. Keeping Pigs Together (★★★☆☆) - Contexto: Instrumental que abre el álbum con un groove hipnótico y melancólico. Funciona como una introducción al paisaje sonoro del disco, evocando una ciudad nocturna y preparando el clima cinematográfico que domina el resto del álbum. 2. Some Kind of Kink (★★★⯨☆) - Contexto: Explora la atracción, el deseo y las excentricidades de las relaciones humanas mediante un sonido sensual que mezcla funk, breakbeat y trip hop. La atmósfera importa más que una historia lineal. 3. Shellback (★★★⯨☆) - Contexto: Una pieza etérea y contemplativa en la que la voz se integra como un instrumento más. Transmite introspección, serenidad y una sensación de aislamiento emocional. 4. Don't Go Nowhere (★★★⯨☆) - Contexto: Groove relajado que gira alrededor de la idea de permanecer en el momento y no escapar. Retrata una actitud despreocupada dentro de un ambiente urbano y nocturno. 5. The Rake (★★★☆☆) - Contexto: Presenta a un personaje arrogante, seductor y manipulador. La combinación de voces procesadas y ritmos agresivos refuerza la imagen de alguien provocador y sin demasiados escrúpulos. 6. The Rough And The Quick (★★⯨☆☆) - Contexto: La canción más explícita del disco. Trata el deseo y la sexualidad de forma directa, con un tono provocador, humorístico y muy bailable. 7. Bussing (★★★⯨☆) - Contexto: Instrumental que transmite movimiento constante y la energía del transporte urbano. Evoca viajes cotidianos, calles transitadas y el ritmo de la ciudad. 8. I Stole Your Car (★★★☆☆) - Contexto: Utiliza el robo de un automóvil como recurso narrativo para construir una sensación de fuga, persecución y tensión, manteniendo un ambiente oscuro y cinematográfico. 9. Alaska Street (★★⯨☆☆) - Contexto: Tema introspectivo que utiliza la idea de una calle o lugar lejano como símbolo de distancia, soledad y contemplación, más que como una historia concreta. 10. Belladonna (★★★☆☆) - Contexto: Inspirada en la dualidad entre belleza y peligro asociada a la belladona. La música crea un clima misterioso, elegante y ligeramente inquietante. 11. They're Hanging Me Tonight (★★★★☆) - Contexto: Cierre del álbum con una atmósfera sombría inspirada en el imaginario del western. La ejecución inminente funciona como metáfora de un desenlace inevitable y deja una sensación de resignación y melancolía. -TOTAL = ★★★⯨☆ (3,18)

This has some nice nocturnal jazz instrumental stuff. It's quite repetitive, I feel a lot of the songs could've gotten shorten by like 2 minutes. I really like the last handful of songs, they break up the monotony big time, those songs are also kind of reminiscent of Bowie's Berlin Trilogy. This could've been a whole lot better but I suppose it's fine. It's far from great that is one thing that is certain. If the songs weren't so long, I think this would've been a lot better and tolerable. I personally wouldn't recommend this one. Highlight Song/s: "Bussing" and "They're Hanging Me Tonight"

Just nothing positive to say about this

Well, to be honest, I really wasn't impressed with this album, especially since it's on a 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die list. So first, let's give this band the respect they deserve. This is a breakbeat driven downtempo, acid jazz, and trip hop band that performed everything live and relied very little on electronic equipment to produce the sounds they were going for. On that merit alone, they were way ahead of a lot of artists making this style of music back then. Now on the flip side, listening to this album 25 years later, it fits just about every cliché imaginable from the late 90s and early 2000s trip hop and acid jazz scene. For someone like me who was listening to a lot of this type of music back then, this album sounds like your average run of the mill release from that era. Even the tracks with rapping have that stereotypical conscious hip hop flow from the early 2000s. Those MCs sound exactly like all the other MCs I was listening to back then. Like I said, this band was probably a lot of fun to see live back in the day, and this album was probably a very enjoyable listen for its time. But for me, it didn't really stand the test of time. It's very much trapped in the sound of the early 2000s, which is a sound I'm completely burned out on at this point.

Well, it's perfectly fine electronic whatever. But that's the whole issue; this is just about as lukewarmly okay 90s electronic music as possible. Apparently not even influential in any way, since I'm not the only who's never heard even the name before. Therefore, I'll say it's a perfectly okay album that shouldn't be on this list.

Meh sounds out of date, we've got Moby, some tracks were funky

Fun but fades to background

Not really my thing. By the near end of some songs I was over it and skipping to the next track. Was gonna be two stars, but the boredom overtook me.

I think the worst thing an album on this list can be is "fine." The kind of thing where when you're finished, you didn't hate it but you also can't really remember any of it. And then you leave just absolutely mystified. This is an album someone *must* hear before they die? Are you sure? It's like being told one of the meals you have to have before you die is store-bought pancake mix. There's nothing wrong with store-bought pancake mix but I'm expecting a certain amount of wow factor and memorability here.

Sux

Honestly didn't hate having this on as I worked as background noise. Not sure I could listen to it otherwise

Sounds like something Jez would dance to on Peep Show

started off fairly interesting and rapidly got worse. i really like this kind of music so it’s a little bit of a shame this didn’t hook me

I like the last couple tracks that take things into a moodier and more abstract (and honestly rockier.....) dimension but most of the middle is just acid jazz background music but not unpleasant?

A great instrumental album

Well the Wikipedia entry was certainly not encouraging, and the album didn't do much to redeem itself from there

There are days you would get this album and it would drive you insane. Pinky plonky stuff and if vocals keep repeating the same thing. As its a lovely summer day it's only slightly annoying.

I was nervous but in truth I was mostly vibing.

Very nice sample music

Täh

I know everyone seems to point it out, but aside from the song where they got a little freaky, this album was basically made for me.

If there's any chance that I could give this a zero star I would because this was the most disappointing hot trash I have ever listened to in my life. I tried to listen to a few songs from it thinking maybe it's just this one song, it'll get better with the next one. It did not to be quite frank it sounded all the same, a hot wet mess that was just pain on my ears. Never have I heard something so boring and ugly before in my life and the fact that these guys are considered pioneers for this type of genre?????? Is truly confusing to me because how can anyone sit down? Listen to this for about an hour and be like. Oh yeah this is the shit

uninspirint, boring, repetitive, dated and deserves to stay unknown, listened to 6/11, saved 0/6

Really fun, unusual, heavy beats. Love it

2.5

Not bad, but not memorable.

Couldn't get into their songs. The songs had a creepy sound to me and I couldn't move past that.

Never heard of them before, but I enjoyed this. Quite a fusion that didn't sit comfortably in any genre. Really liked it

Fine! I liked I Stole Your Car the most, it was the only one that broke through for me

This was labelled as "more revved-up Massive Attack" and I did kinda enjoy that, but I would have liked some more of the songwriting of Massive Attack rather than just the soundscapes. it was a nice set of background music to sit and read to, and honestly great name. My favourites were: Keeping Pigs Together, The Rough and the Quick, Alaska Street

Fine but nothing special

Cool techno.

This album is a big shrug. If you don’t like quiet, sure, put it on a background but if you want actual music of this type to listen to there are multiple other albums to check out first

Semi electronics

Lite techno

Letzten 3 songs 💯💯

forgettable

A mix between ambient, hip-hop, and electronic music. It’s like that Basement Jaxx record but less overstimulating. Like all the other dance records of its time, doesn’t really hold up to most modern music. Track Six though is pretty goofy, just not in a good way (2.5-3).

It's not a bad album as a whole, and there are some interesting bits. It just feels too forced and garage-y. Red Snapper has some great stuff in their musical portfolio, especially in more recent years. This album specifically doesn't stand out.

7.1.26 (and 7.2.26) a fun album with some funky and entertaining tracks. very viby and good music for reading, but idk if i'll come back to this one. Favorite Song: The Rake Rating: 2.5/4

I Stole Your Car var fet. Resten var ganske kjedelig.

Likte noe, annet ikke så mye. Totalt sett ganske greit album å jobbe til.

A mediocre palate cleanser for the next shitty fuckass album this list makes me listen to

Ugh

Dear Red Snapper, you missed. This was not enjoyable at all. It was droning and uninteresting. Not my cup of tea. 1.5 stars

Not my style. Found it pretty boring

Plenty interesting, mostly enjoyable, don't imagine I'll revisit.

way way too long. boring

It’s not bad, it’s just not crazy good and worth listening to. Three stars

I loved this way more than I thought I would. I’ve never heard of them and am glad to find them. Score 1 for the list.

Why is there so much shitty electronica on this list from the 00s? This one is a bit better than most of them. A few of the tracks made decent background music. 2.5

23/06/2026 On the scale of things.... this is a low 4. But it scraped 4 nonetheless. Spotify listeners: 60.8k

Goeie vibes, kleine ontdekking 3,5

sommige bangers, sommige ass

yo yo yo yo yo

Oof

According to the album title, Red Snapper’s aim is to satisfy. Well, they don’t quite succeed, but the way they fail is remarkable. I read on Wikipedia that real musicians contributed to this record, though that’s not apparent in most of the tracks. The production is so over-the-top that the original musicians' input practically plays no role at all. Opinions on this may vary; mine is that the core element of art—namely, people expressing themselves—has been lost. The result doesn’t move me in the slightest. I have better things to do than hearing this album before I die.

Kind of fun.

Never heard of this group or knew what to expect but I enjoyed it. I'll check out their other stuff.

I appreciate the variety of the tunes on this album, even if I don't find any of the tracks particularly compelling. The mix of electronica and hip-hop brings together two sounds that have never been particularly in my wheelhouse, which greatly diminishes my potential "ceiling" for an album like this. And while I can admire how effectively it's sometimes done, the songs inevitably go on far too long for me.

Not bad but not good.

Ikke dårlig nok til å være fælt, ikke bra nok til å være interessant.

Electronic/house music with some rap in between. Fun listen, obscure inclusion in the book. I would listen to more from them.

Cool, funky, and groovy. If this was made by a respected 50s/60s jazz musician, it would be getting all the praise in the world, calling it a revolutionary piece of art. For me, I am excited that I had the chance to listen to this before I die. My favorite track in particular is Shellback. Overall, seems very futuristic and makes a good soundtrack to relax to. 5 stars.

pretty nice

Fine to listen to at work, but nothing amazing - and that’s despite me being into electronic music. I’ll round down to 3*.

Don't Go Nowhere

As I was driving along on a sunny day, window down, Our Aim is To Satisfy playing at a healthy (unhealthy) volume, and as I was enjoying the music way more than I expected to from the description, my mind wandered down a dismaying path that ultimately revealed a deeply disturbing trend. My musical evolution from naive child to now could be be broken down as follows: 1) Music made with acoustic instruments is real, and electricity music is fake. 2) Electric instruments add epic dynamism, and sampling is lazy theft from true creatives. 3) Sampling creates a diverse buffet of musical possibilities, and pure electronic music has no soul. 4) Electronic music done well can be truly inspired, and A.I.-generated music is an abhorrent rejection of God. Well...you get the picture.

This was not a dislike two star, more like a not my thing two star. Although I would like to sit down and have a cup of tea with someone who considers this a five star. Why? What makes you tick? Why is this a face melting record? Goddamn it, I’m going to have to by the book now aren’t I?

I had a different diatribe originally written for this album, but by the time it ended, I actually changed my tune. This is a unique and experimental album that starts a little bland and generic with the 2000s electronic feel, but eventually blossoms into some tracks that feel very melodic and intentional. I won’t rate it that high because the beginning is still kind of a drag, but it’s better than I expected and I wish there was more detail explaining the production and choice of making it onto the list.

There remains a certain breed of listener who hears the words "electronic music" and immediately assumes they're about to endure either soulless dance-floor fodder or the soundtrack to a particularly uninspired corporate presentation. Red Snapper's third studio album, serves as yet another reminder that such assumptions reveal more about the listener's limitations than the music itself. Released at a time when electronic music was still fighting for recognition beyond clubs and niche audiences, Red Snapper crafted something remarkably organic. The album refuses to sit comfortably within any single genre. Jazz, funk, dub, breakbeats, and electronica intermingle so naturally that attempting to separate them feels almost pointless. This isn't electronic music attempting to imitate "real" musicianship; it's musicianship enhanced by electronic possibilities. What makes this so enduring is its sense of movement. The grooves are deep without becoming repetitive, sophisticated without descending into self-indulgence. Tracks evolve patiently, rewarding attentive listening while remaining perfectly suitable as the soundtrack to a late-night drive, a crowded gathering, or a solitary evening with a drink in hand. In other words, it succeeds where great music often does: it adapts to the listener rather than demanding the listener adapt to it. The rhythm section deserves particular praise. Red Snapper understood something many electronic artists and many traditional bands alike still struggle with: groove is not a byproduct of technology or instrumentation. Groove comes from feel. Throughout the album, basslines slither and pulse beneath intricate percussion and subtle electronic textures, creating a sound that feels simultaneously mechanical and deeply human. If the album has a weakness, it is perhaps that its understated confidence can be mistaken for a lack of ambition. There are no obvious attempts at grand statements or dramatic climaxes. Instead, Red Snapper trusts the listener enough to let atmosphere, rhythm, and texture do the heavy lifting. For some, that restraint may register as background music. For others, it reveals itself as a masterclass in musical economy. More than two decades later, Our Aim Is To Satisfy stands as evidence that the old distinction between "electronic" and "real" music was always a false one. Good music is good music. The tools are irrelevant. What matters is whether an artist can create a world worth inhabiting for forty-odd minutes. Red Snapper accomplishes exactly that, delivering an album that remains intelligent, immersive, and effortlessly cool without ever feeling the need to announce its own importance. Those still unconvinced that electronic music can possess warmth, sophistication, and genuine musical depth may not find their minds changed here. Then again, they may simply not be listening carefully enough.

Yet another peculiar addition for electronic music on here. Some of this material is a non-starter, and other bits of it are quite cool, like the looped vocal line in "Shellback". Then there's multiple tracks of nothingburgers, then there's "Rough And Quick" outta nowhere. Then there's some dub on "I Stole Your Car" which would be normal and expected except it's not really done all that well? The production is actually neat enough, lots of little sounds and bloops to add some texture, but the parts don't fit together. Then the first two minutes of "Belladona morph into this pristine ambient passage. This track is actually really worth your time! Agh! I can't make sense of it! This album exists in a superposition where it's both everywhere and techincally impressive, but also nowhere and unmemorable. 2/5, a better and still similar listen is "MJ Cole presents Madrugada". I’d love to hear what Robert Dimery’s methodology was for picking electronic music albums. It’s so out of touch and seemingly random

Not too bad.

I listened while doing yoga, thats a good pair. I work in a wine shop, great shop music. I'm not so outraged at this being included. If we are thinking about canon in the music world perhaps this does not measure up to greatest of all time, but I think it does exist as a proper example of a genre and time. And its a good album, a good representative album..

Not more of this shit again.

Lots of beats sharply observed

Day 302 Nice to get someone I’ve never heard of before, reminds me a little of lo fidelity all stars. Fine but not one I’ll return to Highlights Sone kind of Kink The rough and the quick

Inconsistent sub Portishead

Another one of those lo-fi albums best enjoyed when you've kicked back and are just chilling the night away. Perhaps I'll listen to it again when I'm in that frame of mind. Perhaps not.

Mostly instrumental and mostly quite good.

Me pareció bastante interesante, creo que en cada canción se puede escuchar un sonido diferente o un instrumento diferente. Es un álbum que crea una atmósfera y es continuo es es lo que yo le llamo Brain Food y no tiene la intención de tener una canción que sobresalga, sino que el álbum tenga continuidad y crea una atmósfera cree movimiento ritmo

No te creo que esté disco esté entre los 1001 álbumes. No me gustó.

Ok ambient music. Hard to have in the foreground though, much more of a soundtrack/background vibe that I don’t mind playing but don’t pay a ton of attention to.

I was not at all familiar with Red Snapper before, but I enjoyed the album and would certainly listen again. Something about acid jazz tickles my brain, so I was happy to find a group so heavy in that genre.

Instrumentaalista trip hoppia. Siistiä. Brittiläisen toimintaleffan tausta musiikkia. Hyvä tunnelma. Parhaat: Alaska Street, Bussing, Belladonna, Keeping Pigs Together, They're Hanging Me Tonight

Another total waste of time

One of the more consistently good EDM records on the list (and there are many) I enjoyed this pretty much all the way through. A variety of styles, live instrumentation, and compelling guest vocals make this record a pretty fun listen

I enjoyed the jazz/techno/hip hop beat combination. Would listen again

Never heard of them so let's have a listen, shall we. Huh! Really? We're doing what? What's going on?

Sunglasses in a vampire nightclub. This album makes me feel good and also cool.

Super cool album. Definitely feels like the early 2000s. This music can so easily become boring and repetitive, but Red Snapper almost totally avoid it here. Such a good album to turn on for a chill groove.

Intresting album that just missed the 4 mark for me. Great soundscape and intresting for sure but not as blown away by it as some other albumns.

Electronic records take up a strange place in this list. It feels like for every electronic record there are at least 4 folky singer songwriter records and yet, people complain that there are too many. People write this record off in particular as just simple electronic music without merit. I tend to disagree. People fail to recognize, partly due to the very short description, that this record isn't purely electronic music at all. There is an entire band behind this. When you look at this record in that way, it's actually rather interesting and fresh for its time. As I'm not that familiar with this genre and time of music, I don't know if its place on the list is merited. However, there are many many records that really don't deserve it simply because they are bad, and this record is not one of them. Now to talk about the record itself instead of about reviews: The record sets a good vibe. It blends a more trip-hoppy atmosphere with punchy drums, funky bass and vocals. It's actually really similar to a lot of modern drum and bass tracks in that way. The real instruments do add a very nice quality to the songs. I've always found that live instrumentation makes tracks like these less repetetive and soulful. It's good music to put on and listen to in the background. It's not a record that has blown me away, but it has pleasantly surprised me. 8/10

A fun and funky instrumental album, ideal with headphones when you can give it the attention it wants.

Strangely I kinda like this - especially the first half of the album. The Rough and the Quick… um, hello!!

Another hidden gem here tbh. Clearly went under the radar because of bigger names at its time. Some great songs, some chill stuff, and just some decent music to listen to overall. Very good stuff, glad to have heard it.

This album was quite good... slightly long in my opinion for a sort of instrumental album, but a good listen nevertheless. There were some tracks that stood out more than others to me, for example, 'Belladonna' was a beautiful piece of music, heavily contrasted by tracks such as 'The Rake' or 'Some Kind Of Kink'. I like that there was some decent variation throughout, as I find that instrumental albums as a whole can get slightly tedious, as you can slowly lose interest. This album, however, kept interest and attention at a high level by varying the types of tracks. This is why in a lot of albums, the order of the tracks matter immensly. Favourites: Keeping Pigs Together Shellback Don't Go Nowhere Belladonna

Ew.

This one is not really in my wheelhouse. I certainly enjoyed parts, but have to admit I didn’t really get it. Decent though. Feeling a 3 here.

Errm what is he doing to the red snapper? We're beyond a joke at this point. It's Friday, it's unseasonably hot signalling the end of days, and I fucking hate music. This is complete garbage. That's all I can say. Fuck it. It's making me madder as we go on. This is low effort electronic music that is also trying to be funny. It is a complete failure on both counts. I can't even fathom who would sit and listen to this voluntarily. It's a big world, and I suppose that's why we're not all pals. Wars have been started over less grievous transgressions than this record. I have nobody to blame but myself for undertaking this ridiculous endeavour where I am halfway through a list of movie soundtracks and British house music, sitting through Crazy Frog for adults with stunted learning abilities. There is a poster of me at the aquarium saying I can't come back. 0 GENRE: Performatively driving around in the dark pretending to be an interesting melancholic

Ok, well that first song promised a lot that the rest of the album didn't really deliver on. Keeping Pigs Together really felt like I was gonna get some trip hop infused post rock (and that sounds like a combo that'd be AMAZING). Honestly fantastic track. Then most of the rest of the track list kinda veered more towards if The Prodigy and Jamiroquai had a baby with a jazz band. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, just not my speed. Sometimes it tracks more towards a sound like the first track, like on Don't Go Nowhere. Still a little bit of the acid jazz on that one, but not enough to take me out. Other times you get something like The Rough and the Quick which... woof those lyrics are bad. I'm not against sexual lyrics, but the vocals just aren't working here. It's coming off as way too try hard and honestly a little trashy/porny. The moaning at the end of the track doesn't help. And the rest of the track list is kinda back and forth between those two vibes. So overall, OK album. Would prefer a whole album of stuff like Keeping Pigs Together over what is actually here though.

I'd compare it to a friendly chat with an acquaintance at a party. Polite, but nothing to write home about. It didn't offend, but it certainly didn't make me want to rush back and tell all my friends either. Spins: 1 Playlist Additions - Keeping Pigs Together - Don't Go Nowhere - Bussing

This is very Year 2000 but it does not work for 2026. Man was this a slog.

You gotta admit those last couple songs were kinda cool

2/5

Como vengo diciendo, yo no soy fan de lo progresivo o lo completamente instrumental, pero este disco me re gustó. Sentí que estaba adentro de Matrix. O del Need For Speed. Es recontra esa onda. Para ponerte en la autopista y pegarle derecho toda la noche. Entrás en un transe mal. Hay que estar dispuesto a comerse esa peli igual. Me lo voy a guardar para futuras ocasiones.

Kind of tea

some chill, some annoying in almost exact equal measure. drums go hard. wouldn’t mind ignoring this late at night in a crowded cocktail bar with chaotic vibes. generally not for me.

I remember getting my hopes up about one of these guys' records, on the strength of a Melody Maker review, then feeling a bit underwhelmed when I had a chance to actually pick up a copy for myself. This follows a similar trajectory: I wanted to like it but the reality mostly felt pretty flat. Somewhere on the more sensible end of the big beat spectrum. Hints of David Holmes. A pinch of Nightmares On Wax. Tunes that, to be fair, probably sounded great on bar sound systems around town 25 years ago before heading on to a club. Less engaging now, on earphones while walking a dog on a bright spring evening.

I'm a pretty big fan of this kind of electronic music, so this was pretty good. It also definitely gets better as it goes. Those last few songs were incredible. The songs with a guest vocalist were the neatest part, they all added something that the other ones didn't and it put some much-needed variety into the album. That and the strings in some of the later songs made it stand out a lot from some similar releases on this list.

This was a fun album to get some work done to. I don't think I would listen again

This band is so unheard of that their Wikipedia and Spotify tagline is that they appear on the 1001 album list. That's it. There were some good moments but on the whole it was trying to do too much and ultimately ended up an album between genres (rap, hip-hop, triphop, ambient). It was not terrible to listen to but I am absolutely not going to find out more about them or listen again. Shellback sounded like they wanted to be Portishead and then it progressed to tacky hip hop. i did quite like the ambient end. Belladonna and they're hanging me out were the standout track. 2.5 stars

Pretty funky, each song had quite a different vibe! Enjoyed listening to this on the plane back from Switzerland

It was okay, some nice instrumentals but wouldn’t listen again and I have no idea why this needed to be on the list. The random explicit lyrics in The Rough And The Quick completely caught me off guard. A lot of the tracks are very repetitive with almost no development. The vocals were not great, and kind of annoyed me. I didn’t hate it, mostly my ears were just bored.

This album is an anonymous hour of turn-of-the-millennium electronic music. This was probably used to sell Mitsubishis in the first George W presidency. It was OK, but just OK. I don't think it is a "must listen" album.

#137/1001 🇬🇧 My first (and second) time listening to this album, although i have other music by them. I enjoyed it on the whole but nothing really stood out to me. Preferred the instrumental tracks largely. Best Tracks: Keeping Pigs Together, Shellback, They're Hanging Me Tonight.

A fun record for sure. A bit of a strange inclusion on the list, but it’s an interesting mix of trip hop, house, and sample-based pop. Not sure how often I’ll come back, but glad I heard it.

An instrumental album with a type of music I'm not crazy about. Less annoying than other bands in this world because there are so few lyrics. Repetitive music is less annoying for me than repetitive lyrics.

- fun! - track 6 so freaky - i like the end of the album

Never heard of these folk and album, really great discovery for me, love it as an album at a single play though, very Tricky-like sort of, was going with 4 and expected to grow on me but I really dig it, will be adding to playlists and seeking a physical copy⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

This is a vibe. Mostly instrumental. When there are vocals the lyrics don’t add much. Sounds like the soundtrack to an R rated movie. I Stole Your Car is the highlight for me. Love the dub step feel. Could have done without the explicit verse on “The Rough and The Quick”. Warning: unless you want to answer some pretty specific questions, don’t play that one in the car with your kids!

Our aim is to listen and be satisfied.

Материал идеально соответствует обложке альбома. Это довольно гипнотический, повторяющийся грувовый альбом, под который можно просто приятно почилить. Мне нравится подобная ночная атмосфера и к трип-хопу я довольно благосклонен, так что для меня это скорее мэтч, чем нет. На фон - это достаточно приятная вещица.

Not for me

First half of this album was bad, but Alaska street was cool! They're hanging me tonight was haunting and cool, will definitely need a relisten. Uniqueness of this project gives it a higher rating for me .

I really don’t like this kinda futuristic 90s/00s electronica. Does not do it for me

It was ok I guess. It would work as background music when I’m doing other things.

This is a fine album overall. I enjoyed having it on while working, it makes for really solid background music. Nothing here really stands out as great, but there are plenty of enjoyable laid-back grooves throughout.

It's at least a little better than Let's get killed by David holmes (which I listened to recently on this list), but again, if you're going to include trip hop on this list, it better be the best damn trip hop I've ever heard, and this isnt

Really good stuff. How have I not heard of them before?

como soundtrack de una peli, esto está super super bien. Pero es más para tenerlo de fondo, no aporta mucho sino (especialmente las canciones sin letra lol) 4/10

Poor

Por momentos parece que va hacia lo trip hop y por otros suelta cosas más reggae o de otros géneros que siento no cuadran. Suena lindo, eso sí. Pero me costó. Como me pasó otras veces en este juego, estando Massive Attack o Portishead (con álbumes hechos antes), no entiendo por qué dirías que esto merece llegar como representante del trip hop acá. 4/10

I quite liked this, and I feel the other reviews are too harsh. Needed just a little bit of less slow/weird songs and it could have been an all timer.

I found the first cut, Keeping Pigs Together, so magical it carried me through the rest of the album. I don't know anything about acid jazz or trip hop, but I think this is it with some soul. Ethereal but with a driving bass. Lilting but with pulsing drums. Really loving this.

Didn’t really do anything for me and it was a weird mix of being meaningless background noice and then occasionally sounding like Portishead. Didn’t rock my world…

Nothing here for me.

I'm not sure I gave this my full attention. One of those days. Nothing quite stood out for me. It seems like a weird blend of electronica and early 2000s europop or something. i don't know.

the electronic aspects didn't flow for most of this. more moments of disparate noise than music that gave me a groove

i was so ready to be done with this by the end. it's another one that just drags on for far too long. there are some parts i vibed with more than others and it's more listenable than l'eau rouge but i still find it hard to give it more than a 1. i mean it's not Bad but it certainly isn't something i ever want to hear again

I honestly don’t really understand why this album is considered essential. 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘈𝘪𝘮 𝘐𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘧𝘺 𝘙𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘯𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘳 has a decent groove and a laid-back atmosphere, but I’ve heard plenty of albums in this style that leave a much stronger impression. A lot of it just drifts by without really grabbing me. It’s listenable enough, just not especially interesting or memorable.

At first I was very skeptical about this - another electronic album from the 2000s from an artist I've never heard of, but some of this was pretty fun. It sounds exactly like what you'd expect from the album cover. Fave Tracks: Shellback, The Rough and the Quick, Bussing 3.5/5

Another electronic dance album. Really only thing I could write since it wasn’t that unique to me

I would have liked this more without the vocal tracks. Also, a techno album coming up immediately after Daft Punk is likely always going to sound inferior.

Some tracks stand out. Enjoyable for the year it came out. Never heard of them before

Cool, fat Beats, trippy

Removed Album #31 (List: https://pastebin.com/cSThNiK9) From the Vault #13 (March 26, 2026) Another day, another ex-album for me to comb through. I've never heard of this album or artist before, but this artwork is pretty sweet. There's nothing this can be other than an electronic album, right? Aside from "A Grand Don't Come for Free", I haven't listened to a piece of music with a nocturnal, urban album cover which didn't wind up being some subdued electronic music. I'm hoping this will be more of the same - that style and aesthetic is definitely up my alley. Here goes. Not quite what I was expecting, but the music is nocturnal all the same. There's some good moments packed in here, but man if it isn't shaky. Truth be told, it's difficult for me not to draw comparisons between this album and Machine Says Yes by FC/Kahuna. For context, Machine Says Yes is another UK, largely instrumental electronic album released around the early 2000s which roots itself in similar nocturnal sylings as this album. It's a middling album save for its one stand-out track (Hayling), which is absolutely fantastic. While I do think the album is objectively mediocre, I like it quite a bit. Definitely a guilty pleasure of mine. It's an album where you can make your own fun envisioning all of the nightlife scenery that accompanies the music. I also like to think to think of it as a bit of a concept album, where each track represents a successive hour of the night, beginning at 7 PM and ending sometime around 5 AM (this is going off of the original UK track listing and not the jumbled American track list that is on streaming). As evidenced by the professional dissertation I have just written about Machine Says Yes, I get quite a bit of mileage out of that album relative to what the music is. A visceral reaction I don't at all get from listening to this. A shame, as I do think it has potential. There are a few moments in here that are competent, notably the trip-hop percussion, layered synths and funky bass lines. I just don't think the music materialises into anything which hooks me. It doesn't capture any feelings, places or experiences in particular, which I think is essential when you're making a nocturnal album. Still, there are good cuts. I like the Silent Hill-esque "Don't Go Nowhere". "Bussing" is a pretty good song - best one of the album. It's that one rare moment where everything came together, which is surprising when considering how disparate the influences are. "Belladonna" sounds like an early lo-fi track. Big fan of the backing ambience, and the acoustic guitar and blinking electronic tones ground the track quite nicely. It's also funny that one of the only vocal tracks on this album is a gratuitous description of oral sex. I mean, come on. Is that all you have to say for yourself, Mr. Red Snapper? Overall, this was an alright listen. Definitely up my alley, but I just wish it were something more. This album was, tragically, removed from the list and it's my job to figure out why. Let's see. Included in the original 1001 lineup and pulled from either the 2013 or 2016 editions of the book (I don't have a scan of 2013). A good run - way longer than I was expecting this album to last. The book entry says that this album "...introduces a wealth of musical tastes [...] and a pioneering combination of electronica and acoustic instruments." The curator of this album really liked that one song about sucking and fucking. They summarised the album as "...sexy, confrontational and mesmerizing". Wikipedia has fuck all on this album aside from it being in the book and being liked by a handful of critics. It did alright on the national charts too, peaking at no. 78 in the UK. So, why was this album removed? These guys just aren't prominent enough. This album is the only one of theirs to even have a Wikipedia article, which I imagine is coasting by purely on the 1001 Albums cred. Regardless, I'm favourable to this album. Like I said earlier, nocturnal songs are an interesting make of music, though I sadly don't know of any nocturnal albums which stick the landing. We'll keep this one as a placeholder. I cosign this inclusion and graciously save it from the album shredder.

I liked first song on the album then the rest was just overload

The acid jazz isn't my type of jazz but I still quite liked it would of gave 3 if I added more songs

not bad but mostly instrumental which isn't really for me i wish they had lyrics

Was not real impressed. Different but not outstanding,

I liked it.

Been Listening to a lot of late 90s and early 2000s alt music and idk I kinda vibe with this one more than Mylo. I think we’re scraping at the edge of musical scenes but I did enjoy this listen but I think this is just a sign of scale creep in 1000 albums

++: Some Kind of Kink, Don't Go Nowhere, The Rake, The Rough and the Quick, Alaska Street, Belladonna +: Keeping Pigs Together, Bussing, They're Hanging Me Tonight +-: Shellback, I Stole Your Car 7,0/10

As someone else mentioned, the big problem with this list is that they're throwing in albums that barely had time to age, and while some of them stand the test of time, this one for sure didn't. If you're looking for this kind of sound, just check out Massive Attack instead. 2/5

Utterly forgettable. What makes this album stand out from others coming out at the same time? Nothing really. 1/5

The music is interesting, but no big deal.

Good.

Why is this an album I needed to hear??

there's a trip hop continuum. on the left, we have hip hop and Red Snapper lives here. on the right, we have psychedelic and Portishead lives there. and the in the middle is Tame Impala. anyway, I like Red Snapper and this album a lot. I've heard their music some but didn't know who they were. that being said, I feel like they were somewhat unpolished so it didn't quite make it to 5 stars

Pretty boring album with not uch variety but i did like the nocturnal atmosphere 5/10 Favourite: Keeping Pigs Together Least Favourite: The Rough and the Quick

This one was neat. For the most part I preferred the instrumental tracks, especially the opener and closer. The rap parts (or whatever MC Det is trying to do) and samples kinda ruined the flow for me. The mood of this is really nice, it fits the album cover perfectly. The rest of them didn’t stand out too much. Favorite track: Shellback

elérték a céljukat, kielégítettek. fogom újrahallgatni sokszor, az biztos. miközben hallgattam a vizkult érettségimhez csináltam egy feladatot (látványtervet a moszkva térről) és hát azt hiszem, hogy sikerült a zenét valamennyire a vizualitásba konvertálnom. irtó jó album. borító: 10/7.6 nagyon tetszik, hogy nem tudom eldönteni, hogy vajon egy makettet, vagy egy igazi autópályaszakaszt látok a képen

Coming off that Public Image Ltd. album, this was such a breath of fresh air. Funky, driving rhythm section and some goofy samples to go over the top. My kind of bullshit. Delightfully sleazy. Consider me satisfied :^)

Actually mildly pleasantly surprised by this one, I'm sure anyone who has made any decent progress in this project is all too familiar with the amount of obnoxiously long and completely souless electronic albums from around this time in music history. And while I definitely wouldn't go so far as to say that this is one of the best that this era has to offer, I still just feel like it has so much more substance than a lot of the others. It just feels a lot more dynamic and captivating, and even takes a few risks in places that generally seem to pay off. It's clear to me that a lot of the main influences are from the aforementioned shitty electronic albums, but this one is pretty much the best I've heard of that bunch, and to be honest could even grow on me further if I got to know it a bit better.

Got bored.

Great background music while cleaning your house.

Pretty interesting, I might come back to this later, sort of a morcheeba/massive attick/portishead sort of sound.

I liked this quite a bit, some more Prodigy style danceable songs and then the last two, Belladonna and They're Hanging Me Tonight, which I saved to one of my playlists with similar vibes.

6/10 - Good background electronic music with a 90s vibe

"racing game lobby music"/"rap sample type beat" but kinda better

Not bad, actually. Worked its way nicely into the background of my workday. Probably won't return to this, but it was chill and had a few tracks that I enjoyed.

Why?

Another pile of bullshit.

really good beats

A pleasant surprise! Really helped me tear through some spreadsheets yesterday

Great surprise. It’s a rewarding blending between trip hop and free base. Some of its songs made their way to my curated playlist. Thank you!

Nothing inspiring really, background music

This album was deliciously good!!

got bored quickly

What is this. What genre is this. What is anything. Is this entirely instrumental?? What the fuck. Weird and I'm not sure if it's in a good way. Repetitive in a kinda bad way. Oh there's a girl nice. Why is there a mosquito in my ear. Kinda boring. I mean I guess it's interesting. Please don't steal my car. Favourite: Shellback Least favourite: The Rough And The Wuick

Podría funcionar como música de fondo... Demasiado exoerimental para mí gusto

Listened to a lot electronica at the time, particularly Warp releases. Red Snapper was never a favourite. Its the sort of cafe background electronica that doesn't do much for me. 3 Heard before? Some Owned: No 65/2645(24%) Will I get: No

It was a decent trip hop album for the first half but the second half was much more of a bore. I was counting down the minutes until the end. I enjoy the cover art. Rating: 2.3

You failed! I can see, in abstract, why this made the list - presumably not long after release when the writers had to quickly decide which new releases were worthy of inclusion. On paper I think this is a fairly interesting and novel mix of trip hop and some influences from jazz and rave music. The problem is that whilst at first this is unexceptional but very listenable, you realllly feel that 57 minute runtime as the album approaches its second half. This would probably be a 3 if it were somewhere in the 40-45 minute region.

Lots of my friends really like the band Thievery Corporation. I suspect Thievery Corporation really like Red Snapper. I will tell my friends to check out Red Snapper, as I think they will really like them. For me, though, they're stuck in a middle ground between stuff I like. Not weird enough for electronic music, too present for ambient music. So like with Thievery Corporation, my response is: "yeah it's fine".

mid 4 i enjoyed this one. good to have on. always to get a good one youve never heard of

i thought this was cool tbh

interesting album. the first few tracks seem to be the best and make good background music to listen to while working, assuming your job is being a hacker or getaway driver from a late-90s action movie. by track 6, the rough and the quick, it became clear that this was supposed to be A Sexy Album and any built-up goodwill was immediately lost. am i the only one who doesn't want to listen to graphic songs about people fuckin at 8 AM? it's all over these 90s albums and really breaks the immersion imo. i know you had to wait 30 seconds for a sexy jpeg to load over dial-up, but come on. anyway, the rest of the album is boring af. 3 stars babey!!! favorites: keeping pigs together, some kind of kink, shellback, don't go nowhere

This starts in territory I recognised immediately: that late-90s British world where acid jazz, dub, sampling and cinematic electronica were happily rifling through one another's pockets. There's something of the David Arnold universe about it, but Red Snapper are more committed to the groove itself. The cinematic atmosphere isn't the destination; it's material to play with. And they are extraordinarily good at grooves. The opening stretch is full of them: beautifully constructed, busy without becoming cluttered, and almost entirely free of ego. Nobody seems interested in stepping forward and demonstrating what they can do. Bass, drums, samples, little scraps of sound and occasional vocals all contribute what the groove requires and then get out of its way. The David Essex credit made me raise an eyebrow until I heard the unmistakable bass from "Rock On". That's exactly the pleasure of good crate-digging: something with a strong identity in one context can become part of an entirely different soundscape. I recognised the method, too. My own earliest recording experiments were loop-based instrumentals, and I loved making them. I'd set something running and incrementally feel my way towards the finished piece, changing patches, adding and subtracting things, seeing what happened. I generally preferred MIDI loops because royalty-free audio loops could carry an unfortunate GarageBand aural stamp. Sampling offered infinitely more interesting possibilities, but a one-man amateur musician doesn't have much of a sample-clearance department. Red Snapper had access to a much bigger playground, and they use it brilliantly. "Shellback" is assertive; "Don't Go Nowhere" is lovely, with something that reminded me sideways of Étienne de Crécy's "Prix Choc"; "The Rake" is a beautifully judged piece of work. "Bussing" may be my favourite, a gorgeous groove that seems to need absolutely nothing more than it has. "I Stole Your Car" is another wild success, including a vocal that sits exactly where it should. It's also a superb car album, which I mean as considerable praise. You can put this on and let it provide motion and atmosphere while retaining enough attention to avoid all the twats trying to kill you. You can groove to it. But you can equally sit at home and listen closely, because beneath that immediate physical pleasure is a cerebral record full of tiny interactions, changes of density and remarkably patient development. "Alaska Street" makes that especially apparent. It seems to develop its groove at a glacial pace before the mood changes and the track begins to hang and withhold. By this point the album itself is changing. The sound becomes increasingly spectral and pared back, as though all that earlier excitement is gradually cooling. And then the ending completely complicates that reading. "Belladonna" has what I can only describe as a submariner groove: seabed cool. "They're Hanging Me Tonight" begins beautifully, and even when the drums arrive there's no overwhelm. But the closing stretch gets genuinely heavy: portentous, claustrophobic and menacing. Not abrasive heaviness, either. It's more like drugged chaos. At moments a melody seems to be trying to emerge from it, only to sink again before it can establish itself. So what initially seemed like an exceptionally tasteful groove album turns out to have a superb arc. Excitement gives way to chill, chill becomes something spectral, and eventually the same restraint that made the early music so pleasurable becomes capable of producing real menace. Red Snapper never have to abandon their basic language to get there. That's what finally sold me on its place in the canon. _Our Aim Is to Satisfy_ can function as background, reward close attention or simply make you move, and none of those feels like a lesser way of hearing it. It is cerebral without sacrificing physical pleasure, sophisticated without becoming polite, and constructed by musicians who understand that sometimes the best thing you can do for a great groove is leave your ego out of it.

a bit of an odd one, i liked the parts with less singing better.

I've listened to this at least twice now and forgotten it both times

Boring trip hop. Likely will never listen to any songs ever again. You get the gist of the whole album halfway through the first song

hm?

Слушал дома и очень понравилось.

Oh come on! A. Who the fuck are these guys? And B. Why are they on this list? Answer: I don't know and I don't know. Pretty good album but off this list with you.

Not sure who these guys are, not really my kind of music but not the worst

No fav song

Perfectly serviceable.

Eeesh, maybe I just wasn't in the right headspace (I was almost delirious with tiredness) for this. I was actually fairly excited, but it was just the most generic and quite irritating EDM. The second half in particular just blurred into one for me. On another day, in another mood, I could like this. But not today.

I’m often a fan of electronic genres, but this stayed too repetitive. It was like being on hold or playing some version of tetris

Another hard listen something I wouldn't listen to again a disappointing 2 stars from me

Nope

90s electro

The kind of shit that Jez from Peep Show would claim to have created and been stolen from him. Quite interesting as an electronic album which sounds about 90% acoustic Not unlike Endtroducing, which I think manages to make more "iconic" sounding tracks than anything off this. That said, Belladonna managed to stand out for me despite being near the end - both of the album and my tether - really beautiful soundscape mixed with the heavy double(?) bass. Reminded me a bit of Mogwai

Some of the lyrics on this one were a little wild just out of nowhere Wasn’t bad but also wasn’t that special, maybe if I’d had a chance to get an additional listen in I might have liked it more 2.5

Not my type

There aren’t lyrics

Dire

Sounds like Massive Attack trying to do a soundtrack for an Urban Outfitters store

Aimed, but totally missed.

Another one with a clear 90s sheen to it. Found this to be a bit too busy, and rough around the edges, though. Very heavily sample based, and idm-sounding at times. While not necessary, it certainly cements its sound in time. There are some interesting tracks in here, like 'Some Kind Of Kink', and 'The Rake' to name a few. But it's hard to not feel like it works best as soundtrack for Mission Impossible. And while that have its valid place, it's nothing I'd go off and listen to whenever.

If you showed me this album, I’d think it was okay, I guess. It feels a bit like Massive Attack, but more cinematic. It’s a nice album to have on while studying or doing something similar. But if you told me it was one of the best albums ever, I’d seriously question both your sanity and my own. It’s a pretty generic album released in 2000. If it had come out in the early ’90s, I might understand the praise, but 2000 feels way too late for it to be influential. This is kind of confirmed by Wikipedia, which barely has anything to say about it, aside from mentioning that it appears in the book this site is based on (and is apparently better than their last album). 2 stars.

3.4 2x enjoyable