Reviews (page 7 of 7)
The first two songs were pretty rough to listen to. Almost wrote off the whole album. Shellback and Don't Go Nowhere saved this album from being a 1 star. Alaska Street and Belladonna were pretty good too. I really disliked the voice effect that was used in this album. Had some cool hip hop/funk rhythms which I appreciate, but it feels like they didn't build enough on top of that. This album felt disjointed and repetitive, it could have been shortened to 30 minutes and still been the same. Overall this album wants to be a good mix of genres, like how peanut butter and chocolate is a good mix, but it feels more like peanut butter and kiwi; probably not terrible, but definitely not aiming to satisfy.
Not as much jazz as I was hoping for. There has been a theme to our last few days where these albums are just a bunch of repeating sounds. The ending few songs were my favorite part of the album The Rough and the Quick sounds like what Ray Allen based his famous 2010 tweet off of.
Got too repetitive for ambient music
Sopiva levy loopissa kuunteluun. Montakohan kertaa meni ympäri? Ei nyt kuitenkaan mitään erikoista, 2/5
I’ve never heard of Red Snapper before. I do quite like the name though. It’s a fish, right? It makes me think of animal crossing and that’s never a bad thing. Anyway, let’s listen! Songs I already knew: none Favourites: Keeping Pigs Together The start of this album felt fairly promising. It’s electronica, but seemingly with a real drum kit rather than programmed, which made it feel a bit more interesting than what I’m used to hearing. However, after the first two songs my attention started to waver, and as I got to the final few songs I was basically clock watching as I eagerly waited for it to be over. I can see the appeal with this music, I just don’t think it’s something that gelled with my preferences.
Pointless Electronica.
Genre: Trip hop First time for me. Never heard of the band, don't know the album. Singles: None Songs that appear on best of the band lists: -------------------------------------------------- Some Kind of Kink, Keeping Pigs Together, The Rake, Best Tracks: Maybe... Keeping the Pigs together. Many songs are just repetitive loops, and aren't exactly exciting... I really like trip-hop, but this one just doesn't do it for me...not yet anyways. Maybe I need more time with it. 2.5 for now...
I liked Prince Blimey - it felt very organic at the time and had some good songs too. Making Bones had its moments, but nowadays just sounds very outdated. Did not listen to any of their other work so it was rather surprising to see this album on the list. It should not have.
I liked a few of the instrumental parts but did not digest the album as a whole well.
Not an album I enjoyed
Not into it
Nope.
I found this to be mostly unremarkable, but passable as background music. A few of the more vulgar tracks grabbed my attention, but not in a bad way.
Does it have its moments? Sure. Does it belong on this list? Nope. We've had 4 or 5 albums from the 90s/00s 'assorted background beats' scene so far, and that already feels like an overrepresentation. Definitely didn't need to listen to all of them before I die.
Not the best trip hop ever. When it is funky, it is pretty good. When it approaches acid jazz, it's okay. Too much of it is plodding dark repetitive and uninspiring. It feels disjointed.
I guess they were pretty explicit about what Red Snapper mean in the rough and the quick... Zoinks.
electrònica atmosfèrica amb algun moment interessant però, en general, massa lineal
Started nicely, but it got more and more annoying. Too bad.
not so trip not so pop...
Cool nocturnal trip-hop, but a little long-winded and samey overall, but I can't see why it is in the 1001.
Interesting electronic album, not interesting enough to make me want to listen again.
Listening to this is like when you have a rock in your shoe but it's in your sinuses instead. Best track: Keeping Pigs Together
라이브로 들었으면 나쁘지 않았을 수도
Electronica, lidt akustisk, lidt triphop, lidt vokal, ok
I don’t really know why this album made the cut when the first list was compiled, and it doesn’t surprise me to see it removed from the latest edition of the book. “Our Aim is To Satisfy” starts on a promising note with “Keeping Things Together”, but it didn’t manage to keep my attention for long, not even with the super explicit “The Rough and The Quick”. Maybe I just haven’t had enough exposure to trip hop beyond Portishead and Massive Attack? Will revisit on the weekend to see if it improves with familiarity.
Not bad and I can see the appeal, just not my jam.
The path to heaven is paved with good intentions. So is the path to energetic but stodgy funk.
Un altre exercici de fussionar géneres, superposar textures, buscar diferents estats d'ànim... Interessant... però meh
Not my thing.
Not my vibe
It was on, didn't really notice it - how is it on the list?
Some interesting instrumental tracks marred by too many hip-hop ones. *sigh* Best track (by a mile): Keeping Pigs Together. 2/5
Repetatief. Achtergrondmuziek.
chill but too repetitive
An OK, mostly instrumental album. Inflected with acid jazz, trip hop, hip hop etc, this is a pretty funky (if slightly mechanical) album of instrumentals. Not earth shattering. Really not sure why this is on the list.
I've never heard of Red Snapper before. The album is a fix of funk and groove on aucoustic instruments, but from a perspective of electronic music. Most of the album was okay. One track I would skip every time, dropping this album from 3 to 2 stars. The track that I would skip makes me worried that I missed other things in the lyrics on the rest of the album. I won't recommend this album to anyone.
Electronic music is just really not for me. I didn’t care for this. It’s essentially ambient noise. That’s never really going to be my thing. I like lyrics. I like singing. This does not have that sans the occasional feature. Also all the songs sound far too similar and meld into an hour long noise trip.
Another early 2000s beat tape and that’s just not my thing it’s fine in the background of nfs but not to sit down and listen to
I read a review of this album that said it reminded them of something that would be playing in a club in the Matrix. I only really agree with that for the first song on the album, Keeping Pigs Together, which was my favorite song on the album. I also liked Belladonna. There were other good moments too but overall this was not my thing.
Well, I'll give it that the songs were really well mixed. I'm not sure if this would be one of the top albums of 2000 or why it's on the 1001 albums to listen to but I digress. Keeping Pigs Together was pretty decent, but it went downhill from there. ...after a while, this album kindof grew on me? not a high rating or anything but it wasn't as horrible as I originally thought. 2.5/5
Beat tape for Eminem 3 Some kind of cake 2 This sucks 1 But not that bad "Belladonna" makes me feel something
I remember quite liking Red Snapper at the time, but this is very much of its time - pure Shoreditch 90s wine bar music.
2/5 nope
I liked this- i'm into this kinda sound at the moment but..... ....it doesn't deserve to be in this list. There are so so many artists that aren't trendy and that the judges deem not worthy.
Well this is repetitive. I've given it a decent go, and while it isn't awful I can't imagine anyone would put it in a list of must-listen-to albums. It is just absolutely, 100% pure meh.
Pretty good, again never heard this before.
I'd hate to find out this is their best. Monotonous. Dreary. Tuneless. Got as far as "Shellback" and started to FFWD. Brief redemption with "I Stole Your Car", but that was it. Didn't add.
My initial thought looking at the cover/title was scungy UK techno, and... well, yep. Not as grimy as some I've heard, but still the soundtrack to any given ps1 snowboarding game. And the length.... sigh. They never learn. I'd really like a genuine reason why I couldn't die before I heard this. It did NOT satisfy. 2/5.
wasnt so much my jam
The third album from the band Red Snapper released in 2000. The band experiments with all types of music genres, but they and this album can be classified as acid jazz - jazz mixed with funk, soul, and hip-hop. This album is one of their best and it contains "moody, atmospheric instrumentals with funkier, soulful vocals - that flows smoothly from beginning to end, a soundtrack for urban Britain". I like the vibe that this album gives off and agree that it's some chill music you could get lost in - especially when driving around late at night. A great change of pace for these 1001 albums I'm sifting through.
Weird atmospheric and electronic stuff, not really my jam
Too much noise
I owned this album first time around, at the time I was hoping it'd be an interesting collision between Trip Hop and Big Beat. It disappointed in that regard. Red Snapper always used live drumming rather than computerised loops and for that, I'm giving them a bonus mark. But I'll forget this album for the second time in relatively short order having listened through it 20 years or so after I last did
It's ok but didn't grab me.
Trip-hop makes an appearance again. This album is lacking what some of the other albums have though - tunes. There was an attempt but if I was a teacher the advice would be must try harder. Best Tracks: Some Kind of Kink; The Rake; Bussing
Some interesting moments but not enough.
not sure why this made the list. bland.
Didn't hate it. It was almost a nice, uptempo, listen in the background album.
Occasionally enjoyable
"The Rake" made me angry.
OK I guess. Fine in the background. But nothing all that noteworthy. Barely hits a 2 in my book.
Satisfied.
Boring.
Not a fan overall, but could see myself listening to a couple tracks in the background while doing repetitive work.
Not for me, in my room, by myself.
Notes: 2 seconds in and I’m scared the flood are gonna creeping up on me. First song was alright. After 2 I’m starting to think this album is basically a very early 2000s weird indie movie soundtrack set in a nightclub. Feels experimental, very background music-y. Was this the LoFi of the 2000s? Lick my WHAT 2 star cus I don’t wanna say it’s god awful, but I’m not sure that was an album I NEEDED to listen to before I die like the site says.
electronica feels like a soundtrack, very immersive like how they play with texture would i go back to it tho ? interesting but... cool album design the third track has something going for it c'est vraiment un bruit de fond pour moi ça me fatigue déjà the rake... ugh who thought that this motif would sound good ? a shame cause the guitar sounds good sounds like crazy frog w/o the fun this sounds horrendous hesitated on giving a 2 but if this goes on... it just goes on and on c'est très répétitif le 6e son = son des 90's suuuuuper répétitif. gets less obnoxious but not more interesting ok the horn on bussing is good a bit of diversity w/ i stole your car (sounds dance hall inspired). Mary jane... of course les cuivres sont tjrs appréciés lots of men in the list so far alaska street has an interesting progression belladonna, i hope you don't disappoint me du violoncelle ! où-est ce qu'il était ce violoncelle ? bordel de cul ! les 2 derniers sons sont incroyables... mais avant d'y arriver... donc note finale 2 !
Never heard of it before. A bit of a struggle. Like a poor man’s Massive Attack. I got to the end but unlikely to return
Nowhere near as good as it’s predecessor ‘Making Bones, ‘Our Aim Is To Satisfy...’. straddles late 90’s trip hop & acid jazz, good live drum production and slinky double bass (eg Don’t Go Nowhere) but it’s a hard album to judge as too much of it sounds familiar in 2021. This gets a 2 but Red Snapper made better, more defined albums than this.
Not terrible but only when I tuned it out as background music. 6.3/10
Interesting. Unlikely to revisit.
15th July 2021 Listened throughout the day on my phone but finished the morning after. I liked bits of this, the more jazzy and funky songs.
Reminds me of early 2000s Moby, David Holmes, etc. Trip hop
It’s just beats..and without a vocalist or rapper, it falls flat and becomes quickly quite uninteresting.
2- ganz cool, aber nothing for me
This was super wacky but I felt like it had no substance. Hey, sort of like me.
Not really my thing, but had its moments
Extremely confusing album.
Found this incredibly boring for the most part. I didn't hate it, just thought it was uninteresting and uninspiring. Not a fan of music where it's just a series of samples repeated over and over ad nauseam, which is basically what this is. Some of the tracks towards the end were a little more interesting, but not enough to leave me wanting more.
Not a big fan. The last instrumental was fun, though
Doodah music...skater music...still don‘t like it very much
Acid jazz. Easy to listen to at points, other times quite harsh.
This Trip-Hop album feels like being trapped inside a nightclub's sound system while someone keeps turning the volume and distortion up without ever changing the basic beat. The bass and drums keep hammering away underneath layers of electronic noise, keyboards and samples, while the occasional vocals seem to emerge from somewhere inside the machinery. I find the sound abrasive rather than seductive: instead of pulling me into the groove, it keeps rubbing against me. The repetition makes the experience feel increasingly claustrophobic, as though the same mechanical pulse is closing in around me. That combination of heavy live rhythm, electronic textures and persistent repetition is what gives the album its abrasive character.
[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
Shite electronic toilet music
Feels very generic. Nothing particularly interesting going on here, move on.
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.
Fattar inget!?!???!!
Lyssnade på de 3 första låtarna. Det var nog för att stänga av albumet och aldrig lyssna på det igen
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.
Just nothing positive to say about this
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.
Sux
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
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
Plenty interesting, mostly enjoyable, don't imagine I'll revisit.
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.
Not more of this shit again.
No te creo que esté disco esté entre los 1001 álbumes. No me gustó.
Ew.
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
This is very Year 2000 but it does not work for 2026. Man was this a slog.
I really don’t like this kinda futuristic 90s/00s electronica. Does not do it for me
Utterly forgettable. What makes this album stand out from others coming out at the same time? Nothing really. 1/5
Why is this an album I needed to hear??
Why?
Another pile of bullshit.
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
Nope
Not my type
There aren’t lyrics
Dire
Yuk
Electronic music is hard for me to properly rate. I am unable to determine what is good versus what is rote or a copy of something else. The result is that electronic music by and large all sounds the same. This album especially so. Each songs starts and sounds more or less the same. No shifts in rhythm or even the ancillary music. Drab. Repetitive.
Boring, uninteresting, repetitive, unpleasant noise
It really just felt like this album didn’t know what it was
It’s not my least favourite sound in the world
Pretty boring
WTF
Is there any other genre that has aged as poorly as Acid Jazz? Maybe Trip Hop. Unbearable.
I knew absolutely nothing about this artist or album and now that I've heard I feel my life is none the better for having listened to it The first 30 seconds got my interest, dark ambient jazz like something from a neo noir film then the most generic drum track kicks in and it's all downhill to boredom town from there
I did not make it through, I think I stopped at track three? I was not here for it man, wrong headspace. I needed vital, pulsing music and this was not giving me life.
👎
If your aim was to satisfy you fucking failed. Boring slot. PS1 demo disc music.
Another boring electronica album that I really didn't get much out of. Absolutely hated how blunt the lyrics were on The Rough and the Quick, which would have been one of the better songs here were it not for the vocals. The opening song was alright, but I wouldn't come back to anything else on this thing. 1.5/5, rounded down to 1.
BORRRRRRRINNNNGGGG!!!
For me, all I hear are some random noises
I don’t like this style of music, I don’t understand why someone would listen to it for pleasure.
553/1001 🌕🌗🌑🌑🌑
Just shitty noise. Happy Valentine’s Day I guess.
0 stars for relevancy, 2 stars for musical content. The verdict? Shite
Album #58 Red Snapper: Our Aim is to Satisfy If their aim was to satisfy, then they didn’t achieve their goal. I don’t know much about electronic music, but according to this list, neither does anyone else. Every electronic album on this list is completely obscure, overly indulgent, and entirely a waste of time. I do wonder if there will be any electronic albums that I’ve actually heard of, like Aphex Twin or Boards of Canada, because as it looks right now, there isn’t a single electronic album on this list I would actually return to. I did hit 12k trophies in Clash Royale while listening, though, so this album gets a bonus point. Best Songs: Alaska Street, Keeping Pigs Together, Don’t Go Nowhere Worst Song: The Rough and the Quick Score out of 10: 3
Meh
I'm sure when this came out - 25 years ago - it would have sounded futuristic. Now, it sounds really dated, generic, and thoroughly dull.
The penance I must pay for getting something really good two days ago, is the garbage I got yesterday, and somehow, someway, they found an even worse album today. Another one that really should be zero stars.
Boring.
No ta x
- Kan ikke se så meget godt ved det her album - Teksterne er kedelige (gentager det samme igen, og på en irriterende måde), har ikke noget imod instrumentalt musik, men det instrumentale er heller ikke spændende - Kan godt se potentialet i at blande elektronisk og jazz, og jeg synes det er lykkes okay i “Bussing” men det er virkelig ikke min smag
Und man wartet, ob fängt das Lied an...
I do have a copy of the book, but I don’t remember this at all. Presumably it only made it into one edition, and it’s not hard to see why
Not a fan of this one tbh
Oh oh no that was really bad wow. The Rough And The Quick was just so dumb.
A collection of instrumental jams that are struggling to be mildly interesting. I'm not seeing the significance.
Waste of time, some kiddo starting with the electronic music in garage band
TRASH
Garbage. Or as the Brits would say, rubbish.
Pointless nonsense
Their aim was to satisfy, and yet I felt nothing. I just think that there was really nothing on this album that left an impression on me.
Inoffensive but too long. There’s also the slight wrinkle of there being a non-zero chance that I didn’t actually listen to the whole album because it all just kinda sounds the same.
I guess I have to listen to these sounds while stuck in traffic as my cosmic penance for eating red snapper. Belladonna was kind of nice though
sounds like a track suit, addidas shell toes, a pack of newports, and an affinity for parkour
Musically is a 2. But no reason to be on this list. So I give it a one for wasting my time.
This seems to be one of those albums included due to the author's own personal taste. This oozes that Y2K-branded Brit-pop fusion of hip hop, rock, and electronica, etc. Honestly the bass lines are pretty sick throughout, but I'm not a fan of the songs they're serving. The 5+ min track lengths that don't go anywhere and all sound pretty similar are tiring, albeit maybe better served for background music or maybe a movie soundtrack. That is, the hooks are not enough to keep sustained interest, and there is so much thrown in, your ears get exhausted. What I hate most is the Donald Duck voice.
There is nothing here that should put this album on this list. 1 star or F.
Electronica that sounds like decent background noise for a bar. I like the authentic sounding drums and bass, but there's not enough hooks elsewhere in the mix and the rhythms aren't interesting enough to carry the songs either.
No me ha llamado la atención
Just tries way to hard to be something cool, it ends up being quite irritating 1.5*
Gave up after a couple of songs On the instrumentals I longed for some vocals to hold the (not uninteresting) soundscapes together Once the vocals arrived I longed for silence
The most interesting thing about this is that it had a song with a woman begging for sex ("The Rough and Quick"). The rest of it is just vapid electronic music with occasional rapping. It appears to have been completely forgotten; exactly the opposite of an album you must hear before you die. It is nothing; it made no impact. Ergo, it deserves the lowest of all possible ratings; the fabled 1 star reserved for only the worst of albums.
This feels like what a would-be tough kid would want people to feel as they walk through in the hallways and they creepily stare at people
No thanks
Every song is like five minutes of weird noises repeating. Headache inducing. Favourite song: Belladonna Least: Some Kind of Kink
Honestly? "...the band said a reason for splitting was too much discussing what to play, rather than playing. Each member wanted to try a different musical direction..." The author could open a list of top albums from any other country for the year 2000 and pick one.
Why the hell must I hear this before I die
Life’s too short for EDM. Especially with Iggy Pop on deck.
Why is there so much of this crappy british electronic music on here? It’s boring and repetitive. The same beats looping for 6 minutes at a time. This album is way too long and I see no situation where I would enjoy listening to something like this. I was definitely not satisfied.
If their aim is to satisfy, then they have been found seriously wanting.
What is up with this author's obsession with electronica? The genre is WAY over-represented on this list. This is just more mind-numbing, repetitive, soulless electronic drum beats driving a bunch of go nowhere songs. The only satisfaction I got from this album was not listening to it any more.
# Album Name: Our Aim Is To Satisfy # Artist: Red Snapper # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: Our Aim Is To Satisfy - well sorry mate, you are well off the mark. Honestly, this could be the movie soundtrack to a generic 2000's movie. WTF is this doing here. I mean, seriously, WHY. CAN SOMEBODY TELL ME # Top Tunes: None # Would I listen to it again? Fuck no
Cut each song down by 75% and you have a nice little 15 minute album if some cool sounds without losing any meaning whatsoever.
Was thinking this was very average / dated late era big beat/ trip hop when The Rough And The Quick came on which was a bit too in your face for me and kinda pissed me off so unfortunately is a down vote from 2 to 1.
I’ll be honest, I had a busy weekend and I’m tired and sweaty. So, my head wasn’t really into listening to a “British acid jazz trio” as Red Snapper were described in their Wikipedia entry. Their album Our Aim Is To Satisfy is supposedly their best album and I couldn’t be happier for them. It’s not for me. It’s just kind of the same beat over and over with some tiny variation and someone singing a hook over and over, with a little rapping sprinkled throughout the album. The first time I listen to any of the 1,001 albums I am assigned, I listen while working. Saturday, I listened while reading. After the first song, not once did I stop and just listen or think, “Man, that was a great song.” Maybe it was the headspace I was in, or more likely, this type of music ain’t my bag, baby. And that’s alright. Rather than get angry and write how this music shouldn’t exist or call anyone who likes this album idiots, I’ll just not listen to it again and go on with my life. If you’re a fan of acid jazz, you probably already know about this album, but if not, you might want to check it out. Man, I’m tired.
Det är ganska trist, låter lite som samma sak mest hela tiden.
Well, I’m afraid that aim was well missed
Not overtly offensive in any way but it bored me to fucking tears
Eleven unmusical, pointless techno/electronica tracks.
Electronic music is not one of my favorite genres. I often find the repetitive nature to be infuriating to my brain. There are some decent beats on this album, but nothing that really wowed me. I’m not going to say it’s bad because it’s not. It’s just not for me. If Red Snapper’s aim was to satisfy, I better go grab a Snickers bar because this album didn’t do the trick.
You failed
This is drivel of the highest order. Sounds like somebody tuning a keyboard. Directionless. Get in the bin.
# 536 : Our Aim Is To Satisfy When your only claim to fame is that you are on this list… If you have to listen to this, look out for The Rough And The Quick. Worth Listening to: Not much, but The Rough And The Quick was the best here. Listened: 31/07/2025
muito ruim filho pqp
Sorry, I tried, but I can’t.
Huh. Meh. I used to really be into Beth Orton’s music. Upon reading their bio, she used to sing for them - makes sense. Don’t think I can spin this entire record.
Another album that I don’t know why it’s on this list. I can combine samples from GarageBand too. Halfway through the album, I saw a meme about Wu-Tang Clan and decided to listen to Wu-Tang Forever instead. No regrets.
I don’t get it. Average at best.
Easy 1 star. DNF Best Song: N/A Rating: 1/10 (An Abomination to Sound) Stars: 1/5
I like some electronic music but Our Aim Is To Satisfy by Red Snapper would not fall into that category. This album intolerable. Did not enjoy and was not satisfied. A 1 rating. 1/5
Pretty boring. I don't know the history of edm but I'm sure this is important or something.
Click app. After a few seconds of intrigue that unmistakable beat drops in. Look at summary. Electronica. Again. Fuck off! I'm Australian. I was born in 1960 so I heard almost nothing of that genre before this list. I'm down to the last 20 so in 3 weeks time I will hopefully NEVER hear this genre. I don't take drugs so this "music" has no appeal at all. Track two samples that sublime bass riff from Rock On. Badly. The rest of the track is shit. Will listen to a bit more of this to see if it manages to squeak in 2 stars. . . . . . . Not even close. Truly fucking awful.
Yeah so this one was just not for me boys. Liked how weird it was and appreciate the out there nature of some of the songs. Plus some of the songs were almost good and then very much not, a lot of sounded like it could have been Need for Speed menu music. Fav Track: Don’t Go Nowhere
I like the band’s name, not so much the music. Weird and spooky intro followed by catchy and repetitive drumming then overly the spooky sounds again or weird not so spooky sounds with peppier rhythms. Two choices both boring after hearing them more than once.
More random British electro dance music from the late '90's/early '00's. Just more trash. Sounds like the soundtrack to a bad Matrix knockoff.
Awful bland shite
Bah. bum bum.... bah bum bum.... bah bum bum, one five second sample repeated 200 times a good song does not make
Songs were too long and repetitive
I hated this
Öde!
boring techno with occasional unmemorable vocals. wouldn't bother me if it were in playing in a movie (though it would probably cast doubt on the quality of the movie) nothing I would usually opt to listen to, nor will I start now. blech.
I could see a lot of this as background music for a video game or movie. It would be cool in maybe a scifi futuristic setting with an alien band who all play weird looking instruments. Here on Earth as an album to just listen too though? It's super boring. The Rough and the Quick stands out of course. Definitely interesting and attention grabbing. Pretty groovy too. Overall, I could see songs from this album being applied well for other media but it's just extremely repetitive and largely uninteresting to me
Not in my edition of the book! 2000. 1 star. "Our Aim Is To Satisfy." Fail. Tedious electronic sampling with no redeeming features. WTF is this doing on the list?
Meh
Nah fam. 1/5
Not for me
Wtf
Not at all satisfied.
Meh, I thought it would be good, that's on me
Middle of the road electronic music. Nothing notable or special about it at all.
"Listen, we're supposed to hang you tonight, but the rules say you can listen to any of the 1001 albums you didn't get to first if you want." "What's next up?" "Our Aim Is To Satisfy by Red Snapper." "No, that's ok." music: hated. (⌐■_■)
C’mon man
Sterile and semi-boring. Don't remember a ton about it. 1.5/5
Another one of these terrible electronic records. There is nothing interesting here whatsoever in my opinion. I’d love to know the reasoning behind including this one.
# The Rough and the Quick - LOL! Soooo repetative, it must be what OCD feels like?
Yet another post rave spliff album. This is categorically NOT an album I needed to hear
Well, that was a whole lot of nothing. Normally I don't like to be that blunt right off the bat, but, wow, there just wasn't... **Anything** there for me to get invested in. Not even the vocal on one song that sounded like Donald Duck with a cold could do too much for me. There's a person in my group who talks about this "the first minute is the whole song" trope. Now, I'll admit, I was reading some crossover fanfiction as I was listening to this album, so maybe my attention was too diverted to notice any deep intricacies, but seriously, that trope applies to this whole album. Every time my focus wandered back to the music, I had to check what song was playing and how far I was into it, 'coz for all I knew I could still be at the very beginning of the first song. And, y'know, I can forgive repetition if the song at least evolves and morphs over time, but there ain't no "Around The World" or "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" here. Honestly, there were parts where I had to wonder if they were just looping the same bar of music over and over again. The album's length sure didn't help either. 57 minutes. Why did it have to be 57 minutes? Lemme bring back an idea I've discussed in a lot of my early reviews that I haven't brought up lately: CD bloat. The fact that once CDs became the dominant form of releasing music over vinyl records; once artists lost the limitation of 23 minutes per record side, they suddenly felt like they had to include every idea they could because... Well, they had the room. Who was going to stop them? And this isn't as egregious as some other cases; this is at least under an hour and not aiming for the full 73 minutes... But I still hafta ask: **none of this** could be cut? Not a single second? We **had** to have "The Quick And The Dirty"? Or, like, a bunch of these songs that're barely distinguishable from each other? All of this was supposed to be worth my time? Really? Like, I gotta wonder who exactly they were aiming to satisfy here. Me? Well, obviously not; no one makes music specifically for me except me. I'm not **that** much of an egotist. Was it clubgoers, then? I mean, like that's the most discerning audience in the world. As long as there's a good boom-down beat, I'm sure clubgoers could dance to anything. So, like, was it just themselves, then? 'Coz I've been going back and forth on whether the band's name is supposed to be a part of the album title or not, and... Y'know, I don't wanna go out claiming the band is like that, even as much as I didn't like their music. It just wouldn't surprise me, from the way it looks, if we really were supposed to read it as "Our Only Aim Is To Satisfy Red Snapper" is all. I really can't remember the last time I got so little out of an album, yet so much to complain about. 'Coz, like, I had no expectations for this album, so I shouldn't be too offended that all I got out of it was acid jazz/trip hop mush. What did I even want out of it in the first place? I suppose jus'... Something more than this. Honestly, it doesn't even make for good wallpaper. Even Les Rhythmes Digitales, who I actively thought I was gonna go after for making faux-French house music, did a better job at it. And as I've been writing this, I've been debating with myself if I really wanted to slap this thing with a 1 or not. Unlike every other rating I give out (check my 150 4's), I don't just wanna throw those around willy-nilly. An album actively has to do something to get under my skin to justify that. Either the artist has to be so shitty, where I have so little respect for them, that I can't justify keeping the album at the 2 it'd otherwise get (Kid Rock, Koffi Olomide); or I have to find the album just that unlistenable for my sensibilities (MAXINQUAYE was too boring; PSYCHOCANDY was too much of a noisy mush). I really hafta be honest with myself in asking if this album really bothered me that much or not. Was there really **nothing** redeemable about it? Yeah. No. No quarter. There wasn't. I'm slapping this thing with a 1. This album is a box. I could have chosen to spend my time with anything else; anything that I'm already familiar with, but I chose to take a chance on finding out what was in the box. And inside the box... Well, if I may quote the scene from UHF I thought of upon seeing the band's name: "NOTHING! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! STUPID! YOU SO STUPID!"
I have so many thoughts and no words at the same time.. this may be the most interesting album we've had so far. I've never heard of them and was surprised to see an album from a band with so few monthly listeners, but cool to see So many interesting sounds going on in these tracks, mostly in a fashion that just feel interesting to me as opposed to actually wanting to sit and listen to it. I love an instrumental intro so that got points from me Donald duck in The Rake ??? Weird day of working with this on in the background, probably wouldn't listen to again with the sun up and stone cold sober
I usually don't listen to this genre. There were a few songs I thought were ok but probably won't listen again.
could i write poetry to this? n
Not satisfied
I found the majority of this album irritating. When I wouldn't even put something on for background music, well, it's a 1, unfortunately. I thought Some Kind of Kink sounded familiar and was kind of into it, so I looked up the sample and yeah, I'd much rather listen to the David Essex song, thanks.
Nicht meine Richtung
Music to make you feel like your bus ride is part of an epic action montage when really you're stuck in traffic outside and abandoned kebab shop.
Pretty bad
This album gives me the vibe of the "Piracy is a crime" campaign video that I had to endure everytime when I wanted to watch Garfield the movie as a kid. 1.4
I see you. Have little time. Go Adrian, Michigan. But not yet. Will keep notified. They are here. Many more coming.
Why the fuck is this on the list? Seriously. Does Dimery truly not understand the gravity of the phrase "must hear before you die"? Jesus Christ. 1.5/5
I think this is the Mission: Impossible soundtrack. I would take the first track and it's techno movie score over the second all day, every day. This has no business on this list. The distorted vocals that sound like a mix of Donald Duck and the Chipmunks is ridiculous. The Rough and The Quick is more like stereo instructions for having sex rather than being actually sexy. Primarily instrumental pop music strikes me as soundtrack music, it was the same for Tubular Bells. Alaska Street is probably the worst song on the album....so far. The drill bit sounds is particularly annoying.
PS1 menu music. This is repetitive as fuck and boring to boot. This is the first album I have turned off halfway through. When the only info on wiki is that it’s in this list, it doesn’t belong.
Nope
Iisejä biittejä. Siinähän soivat!
Big fan of the fish jut not so much of the band.
terrible, what were they doing here?
This is like listening to the "you wouldn't steal a car..." Anti-piracy add on DVDs for a whole hour. No thanks, I did about 20 minutes and gave up.
Just really bad music.
At least with artists like The Butthole Surfers, Throbbing Gristle, or the Residents to name a few, there’s irony and wit to their music, whilst deliberately pushing your buttons as well as the boundaries of good taste. Whereas here, there’s none of that. ‘Our Aim Is To Satisfy’ does the exact opposite. It’s one of the more laborious albums I’ve had to sit through. I just didn’t find it very interesting or engaging, just tedious. ‘The Rake’ is up there as one of the worst things I’ve ever heard, as is ‘They’re Hanging Me Tonight’, as are a bunch of other tracks.
Так-то заебись. Для кого-то. Не для меня.
At first it just seemed generic and forgettable but the repetition became torturous. Should not be on this list
Not for me
There are moments on this that could work decently as a soundtrack to a movie or TV show. As music to just listen to there are none. It's boring. It just kind of exists. I knew a guy in college who fucked around on his computer making music like this. I hated when he had me listen to it. He's in sales and marketing now.
this was not good.
Lofi hip-hop beats to break your mute button
i have beef w/ whoever wrote this book
This sucked.
Awful electronic shit, god knows why this was in this list so many better albums of this genre from around this time
Interresting nice sound constructions. Does not hurt, does not alarm. In my mind: no music at all. from this point of view 1 Point, because 0 is not possible.
Fuck no
Unfortunately, cool drum rhythms does not good music make.
This is bad. Absolutely nothing redeeming about this whatsoever. Every track is far too long and tedious. You know when a beat or a vocal line is repeated so often it becomes grating? And you start to questions your life choices and your sanity? This is where this album lives
The worst thing art can do is fail to produce an emotion from it. I went into this album with hope that it would be a fun electronic/dnb record. What I was left with was a deflating sense of fun as none of the songs did anything for me. It all felt like it's been done before and better. My rating might not represent the musical skill of the album but my experience coming away from it. Entirely forgettable.
Ironic title. Not much to say about it on Wiki. When I Wiki’d the band it said they had a ‘compilation of unreleased and rare Red Snapper tracks’. Can a band have rare tracks if no one’s heard of them? I’m listening to the first song…drugs might help its enjoyment. But I don’t have any. I guess when you have a list of 1001 something, you can cast the net pretty wide. I must say this exercise is exposing me to many different artists and styles of which I was unaware. This is an album I’d want to tell my music friends “Oh my gosh I just heard the greatest album! You have to listen to it.” And then play it for them and while I’m extolling its virtues, watch their faces.
Damn, after Amy and Al, you gave me this? Yea, not for me and not going to re-listen.
Terrible! Awful! Unlistenable!
This band is too talented to be making such bad music. The drummer is so dynamic. The bassist is soulful and interesting. But this music is difficult to even get through. They write a funky groove and then ruin it by singing about something insane like licking and spitting. Please stop singing about licking and spitting. Some really interesting grooves that just didn’t go anywhere. I did not like this
I feel like perhaps I've been too generous in the past, especially with electronic music. I don't know why but this is the straw that broke the camel's back. This is the first 1 star review I'm giving out. I know I've been to generous in the past and if it wasn't something I liked I would just rate it 3 stars saying it wasn't for me. But this is a bridge too far. I really didn't like this. It wasn't for me. I don't know who this is for. It was boring and repetitive. It maybe even is a little better than some of the other electronic albums that I rated earlier because it does every so often do something a little bit different... But barely, and not good enough. So I guess I'm changing the way I rate things maybe.
Ibiza hotel background Muzak like you would hear by the pool. Suit the trendy euro travellers who don’t need to stress out by knowing the lyrics
Gaebage
:(
Time and place may have made this more popular than I can perceive at the moment. Not my thing!
I'm now very sorry for the albums that have received 1 star from me so far. Because actually I should give this album a negative rating as a result. Which unfortunately doesn't work.
Eu não quero chamar de ruim mas nossa viu... Dentro do meu cérebro isso é processado como um monte de barulho sem o menor nexo e não agrada nem um pouco
Hellish
How has this made the list
Make random noise, repeat, make random noise, repeat. Do this for 5 minutes and call it track 1. Repeat process 10 times and call it an album. Sit back and self gratify yourself for the shitty album you've just created.
Nah
Impressions: Why is this here? So many other great electronic albums, but why this? Favorite tracks: Shellback Rating: 1/5
It's a no from me.
Repetitive nonsense. Doesn’t belong on this list. Did not finish the entire album. Would give it 0 if I could.
Not really my cup of tea.
No
Pointless. Mildly irritating background music but without character. Dull as weak tea.
At the risk of sounding like a boomer, this album is just noise.
Um so this was awful. Like, in all aspects. It is awful. no thank you.
Yeah. Inoffensive. That’s the best I can manage.
I'm not a platypus. That's by design.
Isn’t it pretty telling when all the Wikipedia intro has to say about the album is that it was featured in the 1001 albums book? The question is: Why?
moves effortlessly between mind numbing and annoying. what an achievement!
It didn't satisfy anything. Completely forgettable. I know there's good electronic music out there so why is so much of what appears on this list so bad?
The best electronica on this list so far. That’s not saying much
Meh
Well they failed at their aim
Kinda feels like this doesn’t belong on the list. It’s just weird industrial techno. No thanks.
I got halfway through the first song and turned it off.
Me costó mucho terminar de escucharlo y seguramente no lo vuelva a hacer nunca más.
Too many repetitive rhythms, chords and themes for me to enjoy.
With a full hour of music, the album managed to say very, very, very little. Not unpleasant to listen to, but I felt as though I was waiting for the actual album to start the whole time. Like listening to how pure gluten tastes.
Not good.
I could see this being a cool soundtrack to some action/suspense movie where there’s lots of running down dark streets hoping the bad guys don’t catch you, but I didn’t need to listen to it as an album
No
I’m afraid their aim was off. Played it once. Life’s too short. Not at all interesting to me. Enjoyed hearing the famous backbeat from David Essex’s 1973 hit, Rock On, on Some Kind of Kink. And Karime Kendra’s voice on The Rough And The Quick was effective. Other than that, I found it difficult to stay awake. Not one for me.
Aside from the great beginning track, this album did not cease to disappoint me. Endlessly repetitive beats and recurring sections, unattractive vocal *noises* and overall a lack of progression. Feels very stale.
Electronic, mostly instrumental. Seemed disjointed to me. Only made it through a few songs. Best of luck to them but not my thing.
Didn't finish. Kept skipping though songs waiting to find something interesting but never did.
Die haben sich doch in dieses Format eingekauft.