Our Aim Is To Satisfy

Fyrsta lagið, já takk. Hin mun síður, þakka pent. Ekki óþolandi, og mögulega getur eitthvað vanist vel, en þið haldið þó ekki að ég nenni að bíða eftir því.

Acid jazz electronica from 2000 - it's an ok background music as it is instrumental and quite atmospheric for a late night listen. Still, it's not something I would revisit and I wonder again why it is on the list.

Not satisfied at all. Nothing in this is actually interesting, it's just kinda boring, shock value noise.

The Good: One can not ask for better intentions from a band than to Satisfy… The Bad: The aim of the band is way off! The Ugly: The reputation of a red snapper took a nose dive… Not my thing… Did I mention that this is not my thing? Not my thing… And to think that I really liked the album art… 2* just because of that… and the name of the band… thought I should remove a point for the terrible aim… conflicted...

4/10

Why is this on the list? I appreciate the real instruments, but this music does nothing for me.

Takie se. Nie jest złe, ale na pewno nie jest to coś co trzeba usłyszeć przed śmiercią. Brzmi jakby mogło lecieć w tle składanek lo-fi. 2

Var sjovt men weird, en oplevelse

I am a fan of electronic music, but this is bunch of electronic chaos which doesn't bring any positive emotion or feeling, no recollection. I only was frustrated.

Best Track - "The Rake"

Vocal loops got old really fast

I’m so don’t with electronic music atp

I normally enjoy these ambient instrumental records but this one, not so much. I was put off by The Rough And The Quick. It was far too thirsty - the musical output I’d expect from a horny teenager - and honestly ruined the whole vibe of the album for me.

Je ne sais pas si c'est parce que l'acide jazz est un style presque désuet ou si c'est son mélange avec le trip-hop et la drum and bass mais je sens comme une fatigue avec cet album. (Je raconte n'importe quoi j'ai juste lu leur bio) En vrai, c'est space mais c'est pas naze, pas sur que ce soit mon style nonobstant.

Just not my thing. There were moments that I enjoyed but even the songs with elements I liked I found too repetitive. It’s not an album I would listen to again. Fav song: Don’t Go Nowhere Least fav: The Rake

We had too good a run recently so I knew a stinker was coming. Was not satisfied by this bullshit. Specific rating 1.5 Fav song- Alaska street Least fav- the rake

Not awful but does feel like it goes on a bit long. Fairly ambient and interesting at times. Not incredible.

techno jazz

Some of this was interesting, some of it was very background music. There was a lot of variation, maybe too much. I liked the vibe, but it could have been half an hour shorter and distilled the good bits into a much better album. It's somewhere between a 2 and a 3 for me, but it dragged just enough for me to knock it down to 2 stars.

Not a big fan of this one. The Rough and the Quick was kind of good though

Mmm…

Why is every track over 5 minutes long? Why the hell is it an hour long? Why did someone do so much ectasy to think this should be on the list?

I mean it's chill and you just kind of zone out,, but I feel like I've heard plenty of these types

These albums are never my favorite, but this is really good at the style it is trying to be. It really grooves and the vocalists are strong. I think they just get repetitive. However, I went on a 5k run to this album and it was fun. Actual rating...2.5. Liked Songs: "Keeping Pigs Together" , "Some Kind Of Kink" , "Don't Go Nowhere" , "The Rough And The Quick" , "Bussing"

Very repetitive. Boring. 2

Would probably have loved this in 2000, but no time for it now

Enough club trance music. Didn't need this on the list. Only thing I can say is the instrumental songs were better than the ones with lyrics. Got boring

boring

This wasn’t for me

Not satisfying.

Pee-pee weiners

Some ok beats but pretty slow.

Meh

If their aim was to satisfy, they failed miserably.

All the way through keeping pigs together i felt like the song was gradually building to something…..turns out it wasn’t. The introduction of MC Det at least gives the feeling the song progresses beyond the original best, but ultimately its when the music drops to just the beat that you feel this has been more than just the germ of an idea. By Dont go nowhere i am feeling that this will sum up my experience of the album (assuming the double negative isn’t conscious) The rough and the quick felt liked i was trapped in looped hell. I stole you car introduces more of a traditional song structure but i still get the overriding feeling that we are going nowhere in the instrumental. Overall it’s not unlistenable just dull. I’d much rather listen to someone like Brock Berrigan

An album where I went in completely blind: to the best of my knowledge, I have never heard anything by them, or indeed heard of them at all, prior to this listen. I liked parts, particularly any bits that leaned into a more reggae vibe and had lyrics (although I did a full on double take listing to The Rough and The Quick), but each track was too long for my liking, and without vocals on many songs, it made everything seem even longer. I liked I Stole Your Car though. It at times reminded me of Massive Attack or an instrumental Gorillaz, but it's just not an album I'd sit down to listen to. Once again, I'm back to wishing for half marks but this is going to get a 2/5

Just your run of the mill British techno band. Never heard of em. They can build a good groove & great atmosphere with the songs but can either get repetitive or annoying. Sometimes on the turn of a dime. Better than most of the other Brit techno on here. Also I have the urge to put together a gang for some sort of heist. Which is kinda like this album: Sometimes I'm IN, but most of the time I'm OUT! 2

Closest to a one star so far. Salvaged from the categorisation of unlistenable by a few cool tracks at the end.

This album is like a guy wearing a velvet bucket hat in a garden bar on a sunny afternoon. He also has Oakley speed-dealers with clear yellow lenses. When he walks to the bar to get another Pimm’s cup, he adds a little funky jive strut into his stride, and smiles at everyone he sees in a blatant attempt to force some sort of communal feeling to the afternoon.

Takes you back to being in a cosmic corner on Cuba mall trying to work out how they can get away with selling what they do. 1st track was ok. But then its the same shit for an hour.

'Keeping Pigs Together' is very reminiscent of Mogwai. The track repeats a hook whilst the backing music moves through a series of nice minor chord changes. Yet somehow this lacks the emotional complexity of Mogwai, and seems a bit more 'bon-tempi' derived. Nevertheless it's a promising start. Shame then that subsequent tracks feel more disjointed often trying too hard to be eclectic. They introduce too many styles, like the insipid ambient-soul of 'Shellback', the jazz attempt 'Bussing' or the bad-reggae, Massive Attack rip-off 'I Stole Your Car'. Amongst the mediocre, 'The Rough and the Quick' manages to be totally execrable. Characterless music and cringeworthy lyrics. The album doesn't pique interest again until 'Belladonna' which has a similar pattern to the opening track, and a fragility that's quite becoming. One of two outliers to an otherwise very unremarkable album. It's a bizarre entry. It's not terrible, but it's far from inspiring or memorable or other adjectives that relate to a stirring of the emotions or intellect.

Electronic music usually gets an auto 1-star from me, but this obscure band at least plays a few instruments here and there. It’s still pretty obnoxious, but there’s at least some effort at musicality put forth here, even if it’s still soundscapey and repetitive. 2/5

Perfectly listenable without being all that exciting.

- never heard of this group before and had zero idea what to expect -- not even any inkling of what genre this could be, which was a fun way to approach the album - there's something vaguely (or not-so-vaguely) reminiscent of the Matrix soundtrack in all dance music of the very early 2000s - I appreciated the mix of organic and digital instruments and effects (or at least organic-sounding to my ears). I feel like that kind of exemplifies the year 2000: figuring out the relationship with and interplay between what sounds you can make with your hands vs. what sounds you can make a computer program (in that sense, is a computer essentially an instrument in itself?) - nothing really stood out to me, though, except for some of the more melancholy tracks near the end. but those tracks were on the complete opposite end of the spectrum from the "lick my clit" from just a few minutes prior, which was a hard left turn I couldnt (and still can't) really wrap my head around. I probably wouldn't listen to any of these tracks again of my own volition, but I didn't actively *dislike* them, either

Sounds more like a movie track, not really bad, but not something easy to listen too

Então, nunca mas nunca tinha ouvido falar de Red Snappers, portanto não esperava absolutamente nada sobre este álbum. Não sou fã de música eletrónica, por isso fico acabou por ser um bocadinho cansativo para mim. Talvez num festival ao final de noite me encontrassem a dançar num concerto deles, mas não é música que ouça em casa por livre e espontânea vontade.

What is this man... Like a third of these songs are fine the rest are...not.

This is a group of really talented musicians. Synthesis of different styles of music. I understand its appeal, but it is still too repetitive and ambient to hold my interest.

Okay

2 - kinda cool electrónica

Not offensive but not gripping either. Electronics monotonous generally, boring. No interest in pursuing further really.

Meh. It's techno'y music. Some parts are more house, some more ambient. Nothing really stands out.

Good but also samey for me

shit

Nyt ei hajua edes musiikkityylistä ennen kuuntelua. Menetteli, muttei jää soittoon. 2/5.

Cool album to listen to when reading or working etc. However, the tracks seem a little disjointed. The 'flow' isn't the best from track to track. Makes for an inconsistent mood or tone throughout the album.

Might've satisfied red snapper but it didn't satisfy me

Again nothing standout and not my background vibe either.

Never heard of this. It's background music to a bar 20 years ago, or a scene from a film where the protagonist is in a taxi and it's raining. Pretty average.

Reminiscent of NES music where you have like 8 bars of music looped for a while to make a really long song. Not bad, but pretty forgettable

Muy monótono.

This album started really really strong. But now it’s track 3 and I’m falling off. Brought me back a bit. But for 2000 this feels old already. If this album was released in 1996 or 97, maybe I would understand a little more but this feels like it’s chasing the matrix soundtrack. Also sounds a lot like the music to the background of some everlast songs. I wonder if this is where the sound is sampled from. Man this album is a journey. Sound like they just follow whatever sound leads them to music. I have to respect it and thankful the sounds follow the ones I like too.

This ain’t it for me

Pretty repetitive, not super interesting. Not unpleasant though

I finally finished! It took a while, but it was a great experience actually. I bet the chick on The Rough and the Quick would say the same.

Unlike most electronic albums on this list, this one isn't immediately giving me anxiety. Not awufl.

I really did not like this album very much. There's some cool musical ideas sprinkled throughout, but too often they go nowhere. These tracks felt more like music beds to accompany other media rather than something to be listened to on their own.

Well, if the aim was to satisfy, I think they missed the mark a little bit. Look, I have nothing personal against this album, but that's kind of the issue. It just sort of felt...there I didn't retain anything the second it was done.

trip hop né. meio acid jazz até. mas me pegou num dia ruim, não curti tanto não. achei até mei chato e do nada tem uma música super sexual nesse aqui. doideira.

That was fun.

This wasn't bad but I think it was suffering from recency bias. I can tell it's before the advent of truly modern electronic unless it's doing something innovative that my untrained electronic ears just don't detect. I really am not enjoying the song, I Stole Your Car. It definitely invokes the early 90s on the song The Rough and the Quick, like something from dance mix 92 or 93. I feel comfortable giving this 2 stars.

Kinda mid

I started off thinking I was going to really like the album, it reminded me of Moby - with very creative, experimental mixing of sounds and beats. But unfortunately it never really went anywhere for me like I hoped. It kind of got better towards the end, but I thought most of the songs were too long for what they were.

I dig it and would listen more, it does cool stuff. Not my usual lane, but interested in it

I learned something about myself today. Apparently I really am not an electronic music kinda guy. Was not satisfied. 2 stars.

Never hear the band, album or even one song. First song was actually really cool but not exceptional. Rest is okey trip hop but this is not something you have to hear. I like the style personally as background music tho the breakbeats get a bit to busy for me. it's like a jazzier and more experimental version of more modern mellow electronica artist.

I can understand that this album might have been kind of futuristic at the time, however now it sounds dated. It’s repetitive, and not easy to listen. It’s not my cup of tea and I didn’t find it enjoyable.

Not my thing

More electronic music that doesn’t seem groundbreaking or interesting. It’s not necessarily bad, just not something I would think I would miss out on if I didn’t hear it. 2/5 Won’t listen again

Uhm No

they did not satisfy

I swear I try to be open minded whenever we have a club/electronica album come up. But halfway into the first track they just fade into the background and I don’t really notice until it’s over. This album did nothing to change that pattern for me.

Their aim was way off the mark. Second song ruined a great riff. The same short noises (samples?) played repeatedly with little variance, no story, makes for a forgettable album.

Although I don't think this will get repeat listens, it was pretty solid from start to end.

Not satisfied!

Mediocre at best. Instantly forgettable.

It wasn’t that the music was bad, it’s just too repetitive for my tastes.

Not satisfied!!

Background music that is in parts dull and irritating. 2/5

I was completely unfamiliar with this band or album when it was assigned to me. The wikipedia entry that gets displayed on YouTube Music simply mentioned that the album appeared in the 1001 Albums book with no other information. Having listened earlier today, I can say that I really don't know what to call this style of music. I guess it's like electronic beats or something. I found that some of the instrumental songs had some interesting bits but there was something funky with how they would use the vocals in the other songs. It was kind of like they used the vocal bits as a rhythmic device so it would just repeat throughout the song in an annoying fashion. I think I listened to about a half of this and skipped the rest after my "I will listen to the first minute of every song" rule. This goes in to the I will never think about this album again pile.

Glemte å rata da, huske kje all verdens. Tror da va litt for 90-talls for meg

My boys say, “Noooo!” They’re right.

Meh

Another someone dated feeling electronica choice that feels like a result of when the book was first published. This trip-hop adjacent music has its moments, but feels more like background music in a heist movie than something you listen closely to.

Like Massive Attack with zero tact. Or soul. Or self-awareness. Aim higher, boys.

Ahh, Red Snapper--mmm, very tasty! Before the Wheel of Fish landed on this album today, I'd never heard of this group. Their sound fits perfectly in the scope of late-90s/early aughts electronica. It is a decent album, but with repetitive compositions that fail to build, it's hardly essential listening. There are many other electronica acts that I'd listen to before coming back to this one. Standout track: Don't Go Nowhere (which could aptly describe most of the songs on this album 😆)

The instrumentals are ok to good. The songs with vocals...most of them I don't care for or I have things I like about them and simultaneously dislike about them. Some of the better "Trip Hop" I've heard, however. Interestingly, their latest album, as of writing this, Barb and Feather, is light-years beyond this album and I quite enjoyed it. Thinking on this might bring to light what Our Aim Is To Satisfy might lack. Maturity. Time necessary for a band to refine their craft with more immersive elements that doesn't try too hard to sound cool or trendy.

1. pigz - 2 2. kink - 1.5 3. zhell - 2 4. dont - 1.5 5. rake - 1 6. quick - 1 7. buzzing - 1 8. car - 0 9. alazka - 2 10. bella - 2 11. tonight - 1.5

Feels like an album of beats produced for rap songs but with no rapping (except for the 2 that did). I don’t mind instrumental stuff but this kind of music just feels incomplete to me. Decent music for a club, not for sitting and listening to.

Plätscherte ziemlich vor sich hin, etwas zu jazzig für meinen Geschmack.

Seems like 311 and Linkin Park contemporaries, with a lot less singing. And imagine how bad this might have been without with singing. The lack of vocals allows you to focus on the music and the grooves, which are ok - but still locked in time in the early 2000s, particularly the turntable sounds.

2/5. It's got a nice repetitive rhythm in each song that makes for a good run of songs. They are to find a sound or sample that feels catchy without feeling annoying, which is a difficult feat to achieve. Unfortunately my statement was proven incorrect about halfway through with Rough and Quick. I'm all for explicit content but it doesn't really land, kind of just feels like someone found out some new swears and decided to use them right now. Other than that though, it was okay. I wouldn't say it wowed me but it wasn't terrible. Best Song: Shellback, The Rake, Bussing

That's not my taste in music

Album 749 of 1089 Red Snapper - Our Aim Is To Satisfy (2000) Rating : 2 / 5 More Electronica, which I'm not really a fan of, but with a little funk & jazz mixed in, it seemed a bit more evolved and I wasn't cursing it all the way through.

Fine as far as this type of music goes. Not really my thing.

I don't really understand why this is considered essential to listen to? It's not horrible, but it doesn't add any value either.

It's good background music, or good background music when you're jorking it. But is that the lofty standard we seek to attain on this list, that claims to host the most influential albums of all time?

This ones scores low, not for being offensive but rather for not being all that notable. Some of the songs are a videogame soundtrack, others would have worked as base layers for a rap song. Vocals get repeated just a bit too often. The sound also seems to have been surpassed, in fact it sounds a bit too 90's for being 00's.

I want to like it but it keeps missing the mark

There's a time and place for this album. I think it's in the basement of a grungy rave in the late 90s/early 00s. Can confirm the time and place isn't at my desk in 2025 looking at a spreadsheet. The Rough and The Quick deserves a shout out though. Not because it was a great song, but because the content was unexpected and gave me a laugh.

Not for me.

2000 album that felt like a late 90's club music. Very receptive and get into a grove. Solid to drive to. Early syths

Not really sure why I need to listen to this before I die? Two and one half stars.

Never heard of them before. Sometimes reminded me a bit of the later Massive Attack releases, but in contrast to MA, I can't remember anything I've heard after finishing the album.

New band to me. Shit name though. First track had lots of promise and reminded me of DJ Shadow/UNKLE/RJD2 etc. and also made me think the first track belonged in a Guy Ritchie film. However, quality and my interest declined markedly after first track.

Nice ideas throughout but overall quite forgettable

Giving it a 2, it's cool to hear and enjoy something totally unknown and always like anything dub-adjacent. The first half is much stronger than the second though, feels like it drags on a bit

Never heard of it before, didn't find it particularly memorable and doubt I'll listen again - not bad enough for a 1

Found this blended into background music and was quite forgettable. I don’t think I’ll be listening again

Amount of Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Tool, They Might Be Giants, Weezer, Mountain Goats, MCR, Blink-182 albums on this list: 0 Amount of British EDM albums on this list: 10+ (so far) Like, alright dude, we all have our favorite genres and I get that you like this one, but at a certain point you kinda have to sit back and be like “am I being objective about this?” What did this album offer that other, better EDM albums had not? Just include Aphex Twin and the Chemical Brothers and be done with it.

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Was fine, but just not my thing. Definitely feels like a 90s album though. 2.49/5

Like most of these atmospheric electronics albums on here, it was fine, but nothing memorable.

Not for me

Been doing this a month now and this is the first band I’ve never heard of, so had no idea what to expect going in (from the cover I expected a Bloc Party style indie band). I was surprised to hear a pretty decent trip-hop album. You have to be incredibly good at this sort of thing for a whole album to have staying power for me, and this just didn’t do it. Some really nice beats and drum work on this, but not one I’ll be returning to. That track with all the vocal samples about shagging was cringe as hell.

It was such a monumental release that they didn't release another album for 11 years on a different record label. Sounds bitchy but just stating the facts. The music tries to be mysterious and funky but ends up being dull and repetitive, coming off like a third rate Massive Attack.

Unsatisfactory. Just seemed to get stuck and didn't really go anywhere, ok as generic background sounds but didn't really stand up to an active listen.

Just another ex-1001 album!™ http://1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie.wikidot.com/album-artists-a-z-ex Red Snapper, a band is never heard of, and doubt will ever hear about again. This album was fine to have on in the background whilst pottering around the kitchen.

Couple ok songs, the rest are forgettable minutes after listening.

Why am I being told to listen to this?

I did not need to listen to this album before I died. Personal enjoyment: 2/5 Relevance to this list: 1/5

Some of these songs are interesting, but overall the album is trying too many different things. It would be stronger if it picked and stuck to a lane.

This album lacks consistency. There are a few instrumental songs towards the end that were really fun to dissociate to, but other than that… Also, the horny song has a repeating yelp sound that sounds exactly like my cat crying for help. I went running to find her when I was listening to it.

Back in the late nineties/early oughts we had stuff like Boards of Canada and DJ Shadow and some of us thought this is how all music is gonna sound like in the future. Instead we got chill lo fi hip hop beats to study and relax to. This album feels very much of that time. It has all of the same tropes, with the use of acoustic instruments, a lot of variation in beats, some liquid vocals, low fi snares. It’s all there. It’s fine I guess. No idea what it’s doing on this list so I guess this is two stars.

⭐️⭐️ i feel similarly to this as I did to albums like Play by Moby: it's very repetitive and the sound gets old fast. in fact, i think i enjoyed this less. it's obvious they were going for a similar sound to Massive Attack or Portishead, kind of a trip hop vibe. some tracks had potential but were just dull. others were just odd, like wtf was with that weird alien-sounding noise on The Rake?? this is yet another obscure/subpar UK music from the 90s and 00s that no one's ever heard of being listed as music we should "listen to before we die." i'll stick to massive attack and portishead, they do it much better

Yeah, this definitely sounds like it came out in the year 2000. I'm just not into Electronica.

This is pretty boring. I really wanted to like this. But there’s no soul here. It’s very empty. It’s not dancey. The vocal samples are tedious and repetitive. There’s just no hook.

I saw "acid jazz" in the artist's Wikipedia description and I got excited for a moment prior to listening. I guess this wasn't totally what I was expecting. I tend to equate acid jazz with the hip-hop side of things (A Tribe Called Quest, Digable Planets, etc.), so perhaps that would explain my feelings here. Not that this was a bad album per se, most of it was easy to listen to with its funky, groovy instrumentals. Some of the tracks run a bit too long, as is the case with most atmospheric and instrumental music. There are some vocal-led tracks but once again, plenty of repetitive sampling there. Not super memorable.

Did not satisfy. 1.63

The last thing this list needs is another electronica album. There’s not enough crystal in the world to make me enjoy any of it. This particular one benefits from me having never heard it before and therefore tire of it.

kinda fun but whats even going on here?

If it was 2000 and a friend invited a few people back to their flat to hang out after the club and put this on in the background, I bet it would sound fantastic. I listened to it in 2025 while cleaning my kitchen, so it probably lost something.

stylish 2000s movie soundtrack

Sounded like the part in CSI or NCIS montage of them examining the body. Unremarkable but some songs slapped a little.

Amazed they got Donald Duck to appear on one of the tracks..

Regular album, no highlights for me.

Tolerable, not my style at all, not something I would ever choose to play

Left me feeling a little unsatisfied Propellerheads would have been a better addition IMO https://open.spotify.com/album/5xbDEJ9xCamw1OSOjaTdzV?si=xPVbNegWQMCT8UGbwTkA3Q

Disjointed meh

What is special about this? Not much. Oh, one of the songs has sexually explicit lyrics out of the blue.

Started with some promise, got bored quickly. Background music.

I’m starting to think that the author of “1001 albums to hear before you die” is a massive electronica fan and wants to subject as many people to it as he can. It’s the only reason I can think as to why there is so much electronic shit on this list. Because who in the fuck would know about Red Snapper? And of course, it’s almost a hour and pretty much acts as background noise. It’s not the worst album, but like… what about this was so groundbreaking to be put here? I put this on during my ride home from work. Do you know how many other songs I could have put on instead? Do you think having the phrase “I want the kind of night that I read about” repeated over and over before being told to lick someone’s clit is vital hearing material? Actually, don’t answer that. Just let this album stay in the year 2000 where it belongs. Favorite track: The Rough and the Quick (out of sheer irony, but because of quality) Other hits: Belladonna, maybe. I got almost nothing else.

Not really satisfying

Keeping Pigs Together and Alaska Street are interesting songs. Rest just ok really 2/5

Доста зле

Lyder egentlig ret godt men den her genre gør intet for mig. Synes vi har haft det her album flere gange allerede

Very boring.. you know it's a niche when the albums wiki page only mentions that it's included in the 1001 book...

Not the most disappointing electronic album, but still glaringly uninteresting. Just. So. Boring. 2/5

Shouldn't be on this list. First half is okay, didn't enjoy the second half as much. One of the songs had really awful lyrics I might give it a 2 because I think I want to. Sorry lad

Booooo I am not satisfied this is fucking boring I liked “Belladonna” I guess.

Didn't know what I was getting into here, but I did not use a private Spotify session. This type of music seems to be not the type you actively listen to, but it's the background at bar or during some action scene in a movie. It's too repetitive to be interesting and not that much different than a lot of this type of music, some of it seems like I have heard it before, it the background, but I think there a lots of DJs doing this. I could have died without hearing this album.

Not terribly boring but still quite boring.

no era taan malo al final

rien ne m'a tant intéressé.

I only really liked Don't Go Nowhere. Reminded me of This Will Destroy you or Panama or something. Keeping Pigs Together was pretty good too. The rest was just meh.

I imagine this is what Tyler Durden listens to. Very early 2000's. As thrilling as dishing out a 1 star is I'm elevating to 2. I think a 1 star has to be truly insulting - this is borderline but some cool stuff here. They were trying something for sure.

I like to imagine this album was made by Jez from Peep Show. Has anyone else seen that show? It’s a British sitcom from the early-mid 2000s and maybe the funniest sitcom of all time (imo). Anyway, Jez is one of the main characters - a clueless, lazy and talentless electronica DJ with delusions of grandeur, and this sounds exactly like the music he and his crackhead bandmate Superhans make together. To me, it’s not that it sounds bad (it sounds fine) but just that there is a general aimlessness to these songs where it feels like keeping ‘the groove’ going is a distraction from the fact that the songs don’t actually go anywhere. they just add increasing layers to themselves as they go on, which is a neat trick once or twice, but I just don’t think these musicians are pulling from a deep enough bag of tricks to keep this interesting for more than a few songs.

In high school there was a group of upper classmen who were all super into Incubus. I worked the grocery store with one of them and he told me he was saving up to buy a turntable set to learn to scratch - he played no other instruments - that shit had such a grip on us in the early 2000s. Thought there were moments of this album that were ambitious and cool - Pigs, Alaska, Belladonna, Hanging - pretty and cinematic and they pulled off the blending of genres jazz, electronica, trip hop, all very 90s but fun. Then there were moments when I was brought back to reality - most notably Rough and Quick - where I kind of lost trust that these guys had a super clear vision for what they were trying to do as a band. I poked around on a few other tracks not on this album. They do some cool stuff that leans more jazz with more forward horns. Overall, the drummer seems excellent, but I’ll defer to the “corner”. Also was inspired to revisit some Incubus tracks, and think their hits actually hold up pretty well - makes me want to get some turntables.

Elevator music with a dash of low grade methamphetamine.

The first half of this album was okay, the second half dragged for me. I'm just not loving all the electronic music I've been listening to lately. Hopefully today's album has some real lyrics.

Run of the mill early 2000s electronica. Nothing special.

Meh, but the"rough and the quick" caught me off guard.

More boring British electronic. You can spot these albums a mile away.

I had never heard of this band before...and probably didn't need to. Some decent grooves here and there but nothing outstanding compared to other electronica albums released that year.

Meh. Fine background music for working but not something I’ll come back to ever

This goes along the line of now how but why does something like this make this list? It's fine, enjoyable enough, but as far as staying power on me, it lacks anything special that makes me want to return to it.

i hate to say it, but this was one of the most bland electronic albums i've ever heard. there was not really anything here that enticed me or i found interesting. it just sort of went on for almost an hour. sort of the epitome of background music in a bad clothing store.

There were many great electronica albums released around the time of the new millennium. Unfortunately, this was not one of them.

Found myself bobbing my head along with the music but I didn’t necessarily enjoy it

There’s nothing bad on this album, but it’s really forgettable.

non malissimo, ma è musica elettronica. proprio non ci riesco, mea culpa.

I'm not usually one for ambiant music like this, I guess I listen too intently but it wasn't bad even if it felt like music to put on in the background. 4/10

Repetitive and boring. Don’t understand what is special about this compared to every other electronica album circa 1996-2000.

did not do it.

This was a bit too weird for me. Not music I very much like to listen too. What was going on with The Rough and the Quick?!?!

It's not horrible, but it's extremely repetitive and doesn't give you much to grab on to. It's background noise. Honestly, the stream for the album ended, youtube queued up another track from the album and I didn't realize it was replaying one of the earlier tracks because it kind of just washes over you like that. This is extremely forgettable. I'm not sure why this would be on here when there are a number of other fantastic instrumental bands that make far more interesting and inspired music. Tera Melos, Pelican, Russian Circles, etc. I definitely didn't hate it, but in context of a "must listen to" list, I feel like I'm being generous giving it a 2/5.

When the entire Wikipedia article for this album is a paragraph about it being included on Robert Dimery's 1001 albums list, how influential is it, really? We call that a circular argument. More annoying electronica. Just because it's played by a live band doesn't make it good. This album is basically a Linkin Park album with the vocal tracks removed. I'll admit the fourth track, "Don't Go Nowhere" and the seventh track, "Bussing" were kind of fun. The last two tracks are just obnoxious ambient pieces filled with ear-piercing sounds that'll make you grit your teeth. 2/5

Ummmmm…it’s fine, but I checked to see how many tracks were left and I was on the second to last, they all kind of started to blend together at some point without much variation.

Electronic-ey beats, some simple vocals

You failed to achieve your aim, Red Snapper. I think had this 20 years ago and it was disappointing then. Very sloppy samples and dance music there’s no way you could dance to. A long hour.

Sounds very typical of early 2000s electronic music. Mostly beat and samples, little musicality. Would be more interesting to me at a doubled BPM. A bit like Jamiroquai, but more Avant Garde. Last track sounds a bit like Radiohead. First half of the album is quite hard to listen to but the tracks from Bussing onwards are a lot more chilled out and enjoyable.

Sepäs oli vain tunnelmointia. Tai siis olivat selvästi omia biisejään, mutta saman fiiliksen hinkkausta kappaleesta toiseen. Taito kuuluu ja tässä on mukavan orgaaninen ote, ei kliininen. Mutta yksikään melodia ei jätä muistijälkeä.

synthy electronic mixes, not bad but not my fave

initially a bit interesting, but ultimately sorta boring

This actually got on my nerves after awhile.

This music is very... odd. I think I'd enjoy it more if it were accompanied by a late-night drive out of the city (or, perhaps more fittingly, through an urban hellscape). The music is kind of dull, but with a hypnotic electronic spin. The percussion creates an almost industrial atmosphere, particularly in tracks like Shellback that have heavy, atonal synths backing a slow, equally heavy drumbeat. The tracks with vocals are very artificial-sounding, and I imagine it would be an unusual experience listening to them live. The bass playing is probably the album's high point – particularly on tracks like Don't Go Nowhere and Keeping Pigs Together, where it's more prominent – because of its clear, central mixing. It acts as the melodic voice when there aren't vocals, and I think that's a nifty choice. Other than the points above, the music is pretty nondescript postmodern stuff. At times, it's almost brutalist, and can get a bit overwhelming. I didn't enjoy it much, but it wasn't horrible either. 2/5 Key tracks: Keeping Pigs Together, Don't Go Nowhere, Bussing

Well the vocals on track 6 was a surprise lol. Other than that, just an hour of pretty good electro hip hop kinda beats

Ik stak gisteren nog de loftrompet over Trip Hop, over hoe goed de verschillende nominaties het tot nu toe doen bij mij. Dit daarentegen kan niet tippen aan de magie van voorgaand werk als DJ Shadow, Portishead en Tricky. Er mist iets. De beats zijn op zich wel aardig, maar ze missen spanning. Ze zijn bij tijd en wijlen best cinematisch, maar ik mis - verrassend genoeg - de adrenaline van de Jason Statham film die erbij hoort. Een beetje spice horen we wel bij het vulgaire 'The Rough And The Quick', dat los van het schunnige toch wel een pakkende beat heeft. Maar echt een highlight is het ook weer niet. Mwah. 5/10

Dit is het net niet. De beats zijn af en toe nog wel oke, de lyrics en stemmen vind ik bijna allemaal niet te pruimen. Het past in een rijtje van triphop albums die de afgelopen weken meer zijn langsgekomen, maar deze scoort toch ver beneden niveau. 4,5/10

Weird video game music.

I kept trying to listen to this for 2 weeks while listening to the other albums on the list, thinking I was the problem. No, it's just not that interesting or good

Et underligt mix af forskellige arter af electronica. Når det bliver trip-hoppet som på Bussing giver det løfter om noget interessant. Der er bare lidt for lang mellem de tracks.

te wack

decent vibes but too bland

Who decided this should be on the list

Э. Услышал об этой группе первый раз. На RYM 500 рейтингов - абсолютный андеграунд. Как это работает? Очередной альбом из начала двухтысячных, который мешает трипхоп с *чем-то* - это как бесконечные блюз-рок альбомы из 60-ых/70-ых. Не очень интересно. Лучшая песня - Keeping Pigs Together.

Langweilig...

think i’d actually like this more if there weren’t vocals….. may try to rec some of these songs to my brother. might be too out there for him tho highlights: keeping pigs together, don’t go nowhere (aug 7 2024)

Here is a band I know nothing about other than what I can see: the name, the album's title, and the cover, so I'm intrigued to listen (although also a little bit apprehensive since the name and title sound dumb). I put it on and at first I think it's some okay study / work music: a funky blend of electronic and traditional instrumentation, mostly instrumental with either samples or MCs over sections of the music. And yet, as we progress, I can tell it's no home run. The suspicions I had based on the name seem to be playing out in decisions made within the music itself. The thinking around this record seems to be on the juvenile side of its era in ways that reveal a goofy decision-making that lacks restraint when it comes to so-called humor. The cute / funny stuff just doesn't land with me. I think part of that is because I too am prone to this kind of thing "a pun" as part of the artistic output. Let's have a little joke here or something I thought was clever over there. Over time it is precisely these asides or jokey bits that I thought made the work something special I can see are actually weighing it down and have held it back. Really just feels like: A less clever Soul Coughing and 311 blend jamming on joke tunes with DJ Shadow, Amon Tobin, and the Chemical Brothers playing in the background of their practice space.

Meh

Good background music, but nothing I would seek out.

Meh

Had some cool grooves. It was ok but got boring and a bit too repetitive. Favorites were Shellback Bussing Don’t go nowhere.

I really don’t understand the purpose of this. It’s so repetitive. One star because little to no vocals which is better than bad vocals

not really much happenin for me on this record but liked the use of vocals

not terrible

Un autre album dont le mauvais score a plus à voir avec la nécessité de l'inclure ici que sa qualité, bien qu'en plus je ne l'ai pas tellement aimé. Certains genre, le jazz ici en exemple, ont absoluement besoin d'avoir un représentant de tous les sous-genres, alors que d'autres styles n'ont pas le même traitement. Pour en revenir à l'album, je n'ai pas tellement compris l'attrait. C'était un peu du pareil au même sauf sur certaines chansons quand il y avait des paroles. Certainement pas un album que je vais tenir à réécouter. 4/10

The spotify listening stats show it all, the first song is amazing and the rest are not so great. I'm glad I've listened to this album, but I don't think I will again beyond the first song.

Not really into EDM

Listen to Snapper (NZ) instead. This is nothing.

It’s “okay” for me. But it’s kind of like a watered down version of music that I enjoy much more. I don’t agree that this is something I need to hear before I die

in Shell Back is the woman repeating "she's gonna get me like cheese barn"? asking for a friend. The entire album made me feel a little nauseated.

There must be loads of great albums I've never heard of, and I thought this list would provide. Instead, we get this. Occasionally chill, mostly generic and lazy. Dated. The kind of album a pseudo-cool posh kid at uni in 2000 would have been into.

The album is largely hit or miss, and then it becomes a lot more miss. Aside from the two songs below, it's all kind of same-ish and forgettable with brief moments of musical clarity. I like the vibes and the idea behind the songs/album had a little bit or promise, but it just ends up falling pretty flat for me. Favorite Song(s): Shellback, Belladonna

Not really a fan of this. For an "instrumental" album, there was a lot of repetitive singing. 2/5

not my kind of music

La vaina ta cool pero la vaina ta rara. Es un álbum pa samples no pa escuchar.

It's never a good sign when there is barely a Wikipedia page for an album. Usually it means the album is hard to find or the fans of the band aren't passionate enough to spend time on one. In a shocking twist of events, this is a group from London, England. I know, I know, try to contain your shock that an English group is given deference in this book. I have gotten a lot of these electronica, instrumental groups of late. It's not that I think it is bad music but it is not down my alley and a lot of it sounds very similar to me. I can't figure out what this group is doing differently from all the other instrumental electronica groups in the book.

Like rap without the rapping

I didn't find it particularly engaging but I did love "I stole your car"

Not for me

Our Aim Is To Satisfy is more electronic stuff but a more chill vibe, just ultimately quite boring and not as skilled as someone like Massive Attack. I didn't need to hear this before I die. 2.

Doesn't benefit from coming the day after the Chemical Brothers - this is not trying to do exactly the same thing but does it in a similar way and sounds very lightweight in comparison. We've had much better, call it a 2 and on to tomorrow.

Instrumental stuff just isn't my vibe.

Acid Jazz und Trip-Hop. Nun gut.

Put this off for a few days, just didn't have it in me for an hour of unknown electronic music. I ended up liking this more than I thought I would after my initial impression, but it's not for me and is entirely too long. I'm sure plenty of people out there dig it though.

I feel like heard all the instrumentals as the menu music of a PS2 game. It's not quite a 1 because it's not awful but it's definitely a weak 2.

I'd argue that no one has ever heard of this band or album before. What gives with that?

Not entirely sure what the point of that was. Pretty poor trip hop album given the quality that was getting released around a similar time. Belladonna the only track that made me feel anything. Anything at all. 2.5*

Disappointingly dull.

That's like 8th British electronic music album in the last 40 albums on the list for me. From said eight, one was good. It wasn't this one.

Somewhat enjoyable, in certain moods I could even see myself revisiting this one. High 2.

mostly mix of disinterested instrumentals. Alaska Street was the only one I really liked.

I dont hate it, but I wouldnt say that I'm satisfied by it. Not a terrible album, but a lot like everything else coming out of clubs in the UK in 2000. Ultimately not anything anyone should have to hear, and entirely forgettable. 2/5

Massive Attack but without everything that makes Massive Attack good.

Je suis pas sûre??

Did not enjoy

1.5/5

Need to listen

Not for me. Honestly don't understand why this is on this list. Overall I'd say it was boring and uninteresting.

Was enjoying this fine, very of it's time that it is, as a decent background electronica to work to with that turn of the century big beat sound, Propellorheads etc. Then it really lost me at track 5 and 6 when it sped up and went shit. At it's best when it makes most use of the acoustics such as the double bass. Very odd choice, never heard of this lot then or since. Not essential.

I had Jack and Cal help me rate this and they actually gave it rave reviews.

Weird music style but I liked Don't Go Nowhere.

not quite my cup of tea.

I appreciate what this album was aiming for and at times it was an interesting listen. Overall though I just don't think this is a genre for me. I don't plan on coming back to this band or album.

a bit of its time, was probably round about bang on in 2000 but missed it then

You know an album is influential when the Wikipedia article is three sentences long, one of them being about how it's included on this list. Well, I guess it's satisfactory background noise. Nothing more, nothing less. Who cares. A perfect 5/10.

Favorite Tracks: Shellback The Rough And The Quick

2.5/5

not for me.

This is a “must”?

so.. this was mainly instrumental, but listening to a whole album that sounds like the intense movie chasing scene background music that you used to get in the early 2000s is a bit too much, so I didn't really enjoy it, but at the same time, it wasn't THAT bad to rate it 1 star... and the songs that weren't chasing scenes, it was super annoyingly repetitive, saying the exact same things over and over again. The one song that started off nice and peacefully "Alaska Street" had some super annoying sounds throughout the song towards the middle of the song.

I should know about this as I was 18 and in the UK when this came out, I loved music around this area but I've never heard of this. I have no idea how this made the list, it's fine for a genre that I do enjoy but it's not good. It made me want to listen to propellerheads, chemical Brothers and massive attack, not listen again.

Really confused how this one made the list

This was in my wheelhouse in the early 2000's, but shouldn't be on this list.

Not for me

2 Oh God, another 60-minute instrumental electronic album. I thought the first track, Keeping the Pig Together, was actually pretty good and felt promising for the rest of the listen, but it very quickly gets incredibly same-y and repetitive from there. There is one thing in particular that stood out to me, and that’s that this album sounds just like the São Paulo Confessions album we had from that dude Suba, even down to the album art looking incredibly similar. That album came out just a year prior, so maybe Red Snapper were heavily influenced by it, but I found it to be pretty unremarkable as well, so these guys clearly didn't do much to evolve the sound if so. If anything, Suba’s album at least had video game vibes and to my knowledge never had any explicit descriptions of oral sex, so I’m going to give the guy the edge here. I suppose this was okay as background music while working, but not the kind of thing I would go out of my way to listen to again. Your aim was not met, Red Snapper.

Track 7 absolutely beautiful. Until then a bit one noted to me. Very groovy but not detailed. Track 9 great too. The End of it much better than the start! Another point better infact! It would be a 2 1/2, but unfortunately I would have to give a 2

OK, some nice grooves here and there, but in general quite boring, and a lot of weird alectronics that might have sounded cool for a clubbing audience some time back in the 90’s, but not really long lasting

Pretty boring electronic music, though the final track was cool. Stand-out: They're Hanging Me Tonight

Moody, mostly anxious, but, in one notable case, sexy, electronica. I should like it but the vibe is a little too weird art house horror movie for my taste. Also boring. It isn't terrible but I don't think I *had* to listen to it.

Red Snapper fueron pioneros en llevar los sintetizadores a terrenos donde nunca antes habían estado. Su fusión de la música electrónica con el hip-hop les puso a la vanguardia del estilo trip-hop con temas como "The Rake", a ritmo de beatbox-funk. En este disco la electrónica está trufada de dub, soul-jazz ("Bussing" o "Belladonna), música disco ("The Rough And The Quick"), big-beat e incluso hard rock.

A touch of David Gray - but that's probably just the drum machines! Not bad, but a bit tooo electronica Bit of hip-hop/ funk thrown in. And quite a few random noises too. Not into any of the above genres. Overall it's a 2. (That's actually better than a 1!)

wasn't monotonous. not sure what to think. I can see it being influential but I never have to hear it again.

Decent. Some I really liked and other tracks I could not get into. Overall, ok.

had zero idea of what to expect. really felt like a crazy mixed bag. wish i could give it 2.5

Okaaayyy, was not expecting the explicit lyrics, but definitely appreciated it. Unfortunately, instrumental heavy electronic music is still not my preferred choice. Respect the work, but didn't love it for myself.

First time hearing of this band and album. While not usually something I would listen to, this was pretty good

Instrumental. Little rap

emblematic of 2000s techno and yet still thematically all over the place. derivative and boring.

Never heard of this group. It did not kill me to listen to this, but will never probably pull up again. Favorite was Some kind of Kink. One of the worst songs I have heard yet was The Rough and the Quick.

I was interested on where this album was going after the first song, but it fell off significantly as it went on.

Surprisingly generic turn of the millennium beats, is this really something that worth listening to? Something worth recommending that someone listen to? I'm honestly not sure it is...

In the final 100 album stretch of the project and they saved all the poorly-aged triphop club music for last it seems. This one at least manages to bring some interesting vox and synth timbres into play, but at the end of the day, it still rushes by in a forgettable whirl of standard 90s drum machine presets.

Not for me. Noisy and random. A couple fun tracks.

Första låten är ju kanon. Resten är inte kanon.

This wasn't bad. But I was bored. And it was super repetitive. Which I didn't like.

Sounds like the 90s.

Lush, Atmospheric, Monotonous, Mediocre

2.7

Excellent cure for insomnia, but a rubbish album

For something labeled as acid jazz this wasn’t the auditory assault I expected. It was just another shopping mall electronica album, though. It probably came packaged with the reviewers new 5 disc CD changer.

They did not please me, they did not satisfy me. Their aim sucks.

Reading the reviews I see that this album is like Massive Attack or Chemical Brothers - two bands I've had to listen to and actively hated. So I don't have high hopes for this. But to my surprise, I didn't end up hating this album. I also didn't love it. It's incredibly repetitive. You could trim songs by at least a minute and not notice anything missing. But it's pretty chill, you could put it on in the background for ambience. Not sure it's something you really want to pay attention to though.

It’s not the worst electronica I’ve heard, was generally unobjectionable background music but still not my style. “The Rough and the Quick” had some … interesting lyrics.

Weird robotic noises, not even lyrics. Flume vibes.

So repetitive

I just don’t care for this kind of loop-heavy squishy electronica. The beats were solid and a couple songs set a cool mood but mostly I listened to each track for a minute or two and then skipped it when the repetition grated on me.

Subpar electro DJ stuff, not for me this day.

I read somewhere that this band is like a revved up Massive Attack, you could also throw in there a chilled out Chemical Brothers. I also got some Portishead vibes from some of the songs sung by the female vocalist. The frenetic drum and beat songs got old fast, but they were saved by the last two chilled out tracks that sound like the Cinematic Orchestra. So my point is that this record is all over the place, some good some bad.