Kenza

Uh Algerian pop music? Why tf is this on this list???

I got as far as the Imagine cover and then decided none of this was for me. I was into the first song that had the Arabic sounds to it. But then it turned to boring soft rock.

Didn't sound great on the train tbh. But there was a child crying, think I must have nodded off and had a bad dream.

Made it to Imagine.

It’s fine, not for me

No thanks

Иногда проскакивают элементы нормальной музыки, чего нельзя сказать про вокал

Couldn't get into it

Not my style or language. Really bad

Gear: ZMF Bokeh Artwork: 🧔‍♂️🤵‍♂️🚗 Production: 🙄🤔🤷 Music: 🎤⚠️😖 Rating: 🪔/5

Album not available in spotify

Sikkert fett hvis du e fra Algeria, men føle denna har komt til feil publikum. Synd, for tror da finnes bedre arabisk musikk der ute. Og Imagine-coveren va ganske fæl

Not my cup of tea.

Maybe it's a cultural thing. Awful. Like a dismal X-factor reject.

Not on spotify, listened to the first song on youtube, dont think im missing much

Not available

Listen to about half of it, not my thing. But it’s all right, 1/5

While some songs have catchy rhythms to them I just can't get in to it at all. While I listened through all the songs I think the singing being in a language very different from mine made it a bit less enjoyable. To me the singing wasn't on beat and very harsh in songs where it didn't fit at all.

Honestly, couldn't get through it. 1/5

No va

Tracks I've liked at least instrumentally 1,2,5, 11 won me back after a long time of midtempo tracks there are songs where the rip of the audio skips, but thats on the ripper itself not the artist will I listen to this album after this review? most likely not... I would erase the Imagine cover, way too long too. 3/10

Het is niet dramatisch, maar ik kan er echt niet naar luisteren

Algerian shit

Could not Stream it.

Not my taste

I've usually loved the world music this project has introduced me to, especially African albums. But this totally sucked ass. I was having a very stressful time with a bicycle when I was listening to it, but it was still so absolutely incredibly awful and irritating.

uh..just not for me.

arabic music - not my style

(Big eye roll) the Imagine cover mostly blew it. I have to “imagine” there is better world music than this.

Ist nicht so mein Ding!

This is the 56th album I’m rating. Back to back live albums is terrible. Especially when they are this long. Adding to my Playlist - El Harba Wine, C’est la Nuit, Imagine, Trigue Lycee, E’dir E’sseba, El Bab, and Deurwiche Tourneur. Not Adding to my Playlist - Aâlach Tloumouni, Ya Aâchkou, Melha, Raba Raba, El Aâdyene, Gouloulha Dji, Mele H’biti, and Leïli. All in all I liked 7/15 songs. This album was too bloated and could’ve been cut by 25 minutes without problems. Also, I lost my full review while writing this.

Raï music isn't really my taste.

I enjoy the artistry, but this is not for me.

I’ve been meaning to get into DJ Khaled’s early work. The man before all the winning. Before the apparent brain injury. He appears to be getting out of his car here to gaze back at the accident he inadvertently caused while filming a TikTok about sandwiches whilst driving. A trail of bodies is sure to follow the big winner. For those interested, I know that this isn’t DJ Khaled. What I don’t know, is what this will be. Spin the wheel K man. Oh hell yeah pal. That smooth horn coming in over the top. A lot of bombast to start which can be off-putting, but the middle eastern instruments and vocals go pretty hard. Man this thing is pretty cool. So different to what I’m used to and a haunting song. Oh no. We don’t need to go off a cliff this fast. FUCK I thought that was him hitting that falsetto. Had to check the feature to find it was a female vocalist. Initially thought this was a “Gimme the Loot” scenario. I wish it was at this point because this is an awful song. Algerian 80’s prom music hit hard in 1999. It is the night where I realize that there is more than an hour left with Khaled. Whatever deity we’re going for here. May they guide my voyage with minimal trauma. Cyndi Lauper’s “True Colours” played in the clubs of Algiers? Off to a bad start. We’re doing “Imagine?” Christ. I am so bad with different languages (not great with English either) but I can’t even figure out which word is “Imagine.” This is NOT for me. This song has a nice message, but between that COVID celebrity cover and the general overplaying over the past half-century, I just don’t care. Starsky & Hutch’s Algerian equivalent Mahmoud & Zayd. Who will play “Huggy Bear??” Yeah so this is an extended 70’s TV opener and it is ten thumbs down. Back to the discotheque. Although it seems like a club on maybe a Tuesday evening. Late. Somebody is sweeping. There are a few desperately lonely regulars looking for the bottom of their drink. When the weird DJ scratching part comes on, that’s last call. For the bar, and potentially this album. The final minute plays until power is shut off. Early. It’s been a difficult year. It seems like nobody wants to party anymore. The thought fades with the final riverboat piano riff and into the warm Algiers eve. What can I even say about this? The bass is growling pretty good underneath, but man this just isn’t for me. I can say it a thousand ways but the bombast and pop sensibilities just suck. Too many instruments that don’t fit. The guitar and woodwind (?) solos near the end ain’t half bad, but the return to the dumb clap stomp chorus is where I seek the skip button. Never to be found, as I am a completionist. UGHHHHHHHHH. Terrible. Terriblé, if you will. These are certainly running together for me. This one is giving a Las Vegas vibe near the end. Or at the very least, Señor Burns. El Bab. The Bab?? See I know Spanish. No. It’s the most current thing on here. To 1999 that is. Obviously. Anyway. God, this sucks. I am so incredibly bored. Numb at this point. Why, you may wonder. Well, the same vocal tone for starters. Seemingly the same inflections and it begins to become grating. I have the disadvantage of not being able to understand the lyrics and the horns are so obnoxious. That’s a start. Whoa. Stand-up bass highlighted. A little too marimba-y. Noooo. We were in the pocket. Now we’re back. I can’t do this, man. Painful. Is this the jingle that the channel “Showcase” uses? Perhaps before episodes of Trailer Park Boys? Why does every song need to be interminable? That’s the real question. I forget that I’m on the same one half the time. Arena hype music. THIS POWERPLAY IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE ALGERIAN TOURISM BOARD AND OF COURSE, BY EAST SIDE ABDUL’S. PIZZA HAS NEVER BEEN SO HALAL. This sucks. Oh good. An Arabic version of C’est La Nuit. We need to hear that “It’s Nighttime” in every language on earth. Let’s do it Khaled. Start learning Swahili brother. This was a slog. A collection of relics from the 70’s mixed with more artifacts thankfully left un-excavated by much of the music I consume regularly. The same tones, the same horns ad nauseam for what feels like an eternity. An album written for others and that’s the worst way to approach music creation. I am once again ensnared in the purgatorial mire fiendishly concocted by the nerd or nerds responsible for assembling this hellish list. I looked it up. This is Khaled’s TWENTIETH album. What in the sweet hell are we doing? Even RYM hates it. This is a personal pick based on some dumb spiritual retreat trip where he had a layover in Algiers or something. An album that started with a bang and could’ve very easily ended with several more bangs as I discharge a firearm into the device that played this thing. Thankfully I don’t own firearms, but I do own two ears and a supposedly functioning brain, making “Kenza” an arduous trudge that leaves me limping into Wednesday. Bottom of the proverbial barrel and top of the steaming heap. May my journey be eased through the rest of the week. 0-0.5 HIGHLIGHTS: Aalach Tloumouni (Alimony???*GULP* Errrrm, better call my lawyer??)

Fun music but it gets incredibly repetitive after a while. The record feels way too long

This was heavy. After amusement it has just heavy and showed how little one can understand.

I'm culturally, and by a language barrier, unable to rate this album. Tonally it seems like very basic arabic pop music, production also seems nice, but other than that it offers nothing for me. I don't understand why they would want to re-record Lennon's Imagine nearly 30 years later tho.

Very hard to track these songs down, but the ones I found were not very memorable.

Not for me

I'd like to pretend I'm cultured and that I enjoyed it but truthfully I kept checking to see how much time was left because I wanted to turn it off.

Call me uncultured swine but this ain't for me. The 'Imagine' cover was kinda cool to hear in a different language tho

Not my tempo at all, and then he started singing Imagine and I bailed - unforgiveable.

One of the hardest albums so far, it couldn't have been over sooner.

Not listening to this whole thing sorry?

What even is 'world' music? Would this be considered world in its country of origin? I don't know. What I do know is this album is an odd duck, and I don't really want anything to do with it.

Got to the Imagine cover and just could not continue

Not for me, It sounds like the sound track to Aladdin 2!! I did enjoy some of the music and I appreciate the change in vibe and being taken out of the comfort zone but I won’t be listening to this again. Favourite song: Aalach Tloumouni Least favourite: The rest of the album Album artwork: Not one I will be hanging up at home

Couldn’t listen to it.

At least now I have an opinion about Algerian music

No songs were available to actually listen to.

album doesn't exist bruh lmfao

Painful. Imagine was appalling.

– Mom, can we buy oriental music? – We have oriental music at home, my dear. Sikerült belepasszintani az összes létező sztereotípiát, ami a kétezres évek játékainak sivatagipálya-zenéit képviseli. Seth Everman mind a húsz (!) ujját megnyalná utána! Igen, az első két számot visítva végigröhögtem, és letekertem a hangerőt, mert ennyire még a maxon bömböltetett hentait sem szégyellném a szomszédok előtt, mint ezt. Aztán megérkezett a wishes Imagine, meg az aliexpresses sanzon (ráadásul KÉTSZER IS!!!!). Nem tudom, ki adott erre engedélyt anno. Én legfeljebb kilövési engedélyt adnék rá. A második fele viselhetőbb, de nem jobb, és nem menti meg még az akár korabeli mildly hard dubstepként induló Derwiche Tourneur sem. Kérlek, algoritmus, kíméld az idegeimet.

Algerian folk music (rai) over a hip hop/dance beat. Honestly, this could be worse. And now it is. El Harba Wine's background music is from a cheesy 80s music, and not a good one. This is like what you'd expect to play over the Algerian dub of Teen Titans Go! in place of The Night Begins to Shine. I guess some of this is in French. The musical styles of the first three songs are all wildly different, this feels more like a greatest hits album as there's very little cohesion between the songs musically. Cover of John Lennon's Imagine is recognizable and awful. Much like modern Western music has been greatly influenced by the history of sacred music, a lot of this sounds like calls to prayer. English lyrics! The guest singer, Noa, does not have a strong voice. It's not helping that this is unavailable through Spotify. You can't even find E'dir E'sseba anywhere to listen to. The music from this is all over the place, pick a style and stick with it. This should only be on a list of 1,001 albums if they are albums from Algeria specifically. Ok, El Bab has something going on, massive improvement but again, no connection to the rest of the album. It feels like every musical style included in this album, and there are MANY, is from the 80s...maybe Algerian music is 25 years behind America.....so maybe the great Algerian Britney/Christina debate is happening right now. I'm counting the minutes until this is over. Mele H'bibti could be the music from a terrorism action movie sequence, Algeria or Paris based....Jason Bourne driving a car through the streets of Casablanca. It must be exhausting having to be this pretentious all the time for music critics. No one should need to feel like they need to impress people they will never meet this much.

One of the selling points and pleasures of subscribing to Tidal and Roon is the automated playlists generated which are based on your listening tastes. So this was another occasion I had to find a secluded corner of my home (don’t want the family to think I enjoy this stuff) and listen on another streaming service where I’m not bothered too much about what the algorithm thinks I like. It was a very quick visit. Whilst I appreciate this list has to include every form of music it is nevertheless still dominated by westernised music. To dip occasionally and feature albums such as this is nothing more than tick boxing. There may be an argument for a list to reflect every type of world music and that the albums featured, many many more than 1001, are evenly distributed in the list. If this is a list of modern western music from the 1950’s onwards so keep it as such. 1/5 29/8/24

Not my type

Imagine a better album

Sounds like noise to me... and not the good kind

I had to go to YouTube to find it. He may be the Algerian sensation - but I wasn’t feeling it. But I have to admit I was surprised by the Imagine cover. Not necessarily in a good way. Just surprised.

Somewhere between not very good and not my type of tunes.

Horrible week of selections ended with a clunker

I can’t shake the feeling I’m being tricked into listening to the Algerian Gary Barlow.

I tried. Listened to the whole thing. Read up on the guy, and okay, seems like this isn't a total asspull addition to the list, but Jesus fucking Christ. No. I'm sure it goes reasonably hard on a trip to the Sahara or something, but I live in the mountains, man. I feel like a white woman going to a Mexican restaurant and saying 'Konnichiwa" to the waitress. Vibes are off. Can't do it.

I can't say if this is good or bad, but I can say it's not for me...

That's not music for me. I'd rather listen to hip hop, which I don't like at all. I've heard enough of this music blaring out of the open windows of our little oriental friends' overpowered cars. 1/5

El harba wine, best 4 min 34 seconds of my life, is the only song playable on spotify

🐶

Where the heck is Aicha?

I wish music could be uninvented.

Nope. Kinda like the music, but - not his singing.

I listened to maybe 4 songs of this on YouTube before I gave up. I know others have had a hard time finding this album too. I'm not entirely sure why that is. What I heard sounded like contemporary middle eastern music and it wasn't bad but it's definitely not something I'm going to seek out.

I do not understand the inclusion of this album on the list. A rare miss when venturing outside of the Western hemisphere.

no.

Åhh.. Mine vestlige øre har svært ved det her. Det bliver ikke mindre forvirrende at hverken cover, eller fransk..

There are great arabic artists and albums out there and they still found a way to add this crap to the list. Incredible.

Why are so many of the world music albums on this list albums that try to incorporate so much influence from western music. I wanna hear the actual world music, not some dumbed down westernified stuff.

- Spoiler: nicht gerade für Workouts geeignet (imo) - okay-ish würde ich aber glaube ich nicht wieder hören

Trash, the sorta music you hear in a NYC cab

I hated it. I really don’t care for this style/genre/microtonal singing

Minus minus minus

Terrible.

Call me uncultured swine, but I really can’t get much into this at all. 1.5/5

Nope... nope

no idea why this is on the list at all

Potevo anche sopportare le tracce in arabo…ma quella in francese è la cover di Imagine sono le due che annullano la qualità dell’album

Got as far as the terrible cover of Imagine. No thanks.

Nope.

Not for me 1/5

💩

No thank you.

Spotify only has one song from this album available in the US, but based on that...yeah, no.

No es mi estilo.

Did not like the one song I listened to

This is not enjoyable at all, I appreciate different cultures have different tastes and do like that this list includes that but really not for me.

Couldn't finish 1 song.

Imagine Raba-Raba

Que bosta

i love some eastern funk check out habibi funk compilations not thius

Was it the train of screaming school children or the album itself? We’ll never know. What we do know is that I will not be tuning in again, apologies :(. Under different circumstances you might’ve been the one (probs not).

Not available on Apple Music.

Couldn’t find it on Spotify

Unable to download songs

Tried to listen, but for some reason only one song from the album was available to play on spotify.

I just couldn't get into it.

Moeizaam voor mij... De cover art me dan wel deed denken aan de pinda foto's die Arie ooit in zijn nieuwe appartement vond, dus dat is eigenlijk meer dan die ene ster waard.

Not for me.

I don't know what I'm meant to do with this album, not speaking any of the languages it's performed in, and there's also a really bad cover of Imagine on there. I'm absolutely here for a broader representation of world music/non-English influences but at least make it good if you're adding it.

Hur i helvete kan den här skivan vara med.

Not on Spotify. L

If this album was sung in English I would rate it a 1 because it’s generic and bland pop. So just because it’s sung in Arabic I won’t give it any charity either. And also his cover of Imagine is insipid and doesn’t add anything at all.

I’m all for getting out of your comfort zone and listening to something you normally wouldn’t but… not this

It’s not available as a whole album anywhere. Why is this here?

Not for me

Niin uskomattoman perus poppia samoilla vinkula vankula äänillä aina kuuluu ahmadin autossa ku mennään päristään... Vihaan poppia.. ei auta vaikka kieltä vaihdatetaan... Uskomattoman paska kokemus.. Vängähtävä arab tone kiinnostava.. siitä jos joku selittäisi meikäpojalle.. ETTÄ MIKSI KUULLOSTAA PITÄÄ EPÄVIREISELTÄ MIKSI.. siis haluan ymmärtää.... miten päätä heiluttana epävireinen tone vilauttaa menemään.. Onko ylös alas häh.. sanotaanko "Awww broo dirty ass vingahdus" häh mikä homma... Olen albumin yläpuolella. Tämä ei ole isku Algerialaisia kohtaan. Tämä on isku kriitikko himolle (on haukku heh ruskea reikä heh) joka ei löytänyt algeriasta oikeaa artistia joka leikittelisi arab vinku tonella.. ei joutuisi sen leikiteltäväksi... Progressive vinkuna...

French Arab style music. Non for me

Not available on Spotify. 1 song was pretty good

Horribly dated production and bland. I like some of Khaled's other albums but this is a bizarre choice, borderline unlistenable. El Harba Wine is a tune tho

Got to second track and stopped. Seriously.... 1001 albums and they chose this? Not for me, it was busting my head trying to listen to this. A load of bols

Not for me.

only el harba wine available on spotify

Ja..

I don't drive a taxi, so why the fuck would I listen to this?

I'm sure in it's way this is popular and groundbreaking and I'd probably have got into this a few years ago but today it hit me in the wong way. Too poppy and upbeat I think.

I can’t listen to this album so idk gonna rate 1 star

Not my cup of tea at all

I tried, but despite the polyglot offerings, I didn’t really enjoy it.

Not my cup of tea

only 2 songs play on this album on the spotify platform😮‍💨😔. not the best ill have to look it up somwwhere to fully enjoy😮‍💨

Not a fan.

Not much of a fan of Middle Eastern Pop....

Not for me. I don't get how this makes the list.

I tried, I really did...melha was probably the closest thing on here that I could handle. But the Imagine cover was like Gal Gadot all over again. Not for me.

👎

This one wasn’t for me

Takes it off the list. Sorry Khaled Cover art: minus one out of 5

No mamen, no voy a escuchar esta mierda.

jamais j'écouterais cette merde!

Don’t know what’s being said. And don’t care for the Arabian instrumentals. This could be a great album but to me it is a lot of noise. 1.0/10

It was so far removed to most stuff I listen to I was finding it fairly interesting. And then they did the Imagine cover. Fuck me

1 1/2

imagine, that I had to spend two hours listening to that crap. Awful stuff, the only thing I did while listening was praying for the end. Worst album generated til now. Imagine such a cover of Imagine tho xD

Oh fuck off.

This came out of the gates strong, El Harba Wine is like '90s Euro Pop through an Arab music filter. Or maybe Arab music through a '90s Euro Pop filter. Whatever. So that's good, but it went downhill from there pretty quickly. A terrible John Lennon cover and a lot of very '80s sounding cheese. and schmaltz. Most of the album is restaurant background music at best. At least it wasn't DJ Khaled I guess, so that's a small win.

Not my jam

Nah

I only remember the hit song Didi from his debut album Khaled (1992). It was a chore to get through this album, I'm afraid. It can be refreshing to hear one song in this Arabic/Western crossover style, but a whole album of this is indigestible to me.

This was just not for me.

Might be good, but not on Spotify...

Cudan mi turski, a glazba vise manje.

Rađe bi slušao DJ Khaleda.

Are you kidding?

Khaled?! If Bonde do Tigrão pops up here I'llnot be surprised. No, serious WTF, that's total crap. This album doesn't even have Même pas fatigué... It's all rrrllluirrrkirrllaarrrrhhhullarrr

Not for me thanks

I can say that this is actually better than most of the pop coming out of the US and the UK at the time. The cat seemed to like it. Or maybe he hated it, he started howling pretty good. This is competent music, created by a polished professional, and it shows. That said, this just isn’t for me

Shhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaatttttttttteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Prob big in Middle East, just not used to this style of music and unlikely to adopt it.

yeah not my vibe.

I mean…. I don’t know man. I need to find some new music soon but this ain’t it.

dafuq

There is no reason for this album to be here... I mean, yes it is the 1001 albums you must listen to before you die and all that BS... but c'mon, are we going to listen to a Samba album? Tango album? K-pop? Japanese Ska? African tribal songs? Chinese... whatever they listen to? If the answer is no, then this album doesn't belong here. We all know the list is american-centered anyway...

Umm... I guess I can appreciate that others from different cultures enjoy the wailing pop of Khaled. Not for me at all.

Seriously? Every song sounds the fucking same!

Definitely not what I was expecting when I read 'Khaled' haha,. It was proficient enough, but I really couldn't get into it.

No thank you.

1,5/5

Ei vittu... Lopetin tokan biisin kohdalla kun ei vaan pystynyt.

Ei pystyny tätä ulinaa kuuntelee loppuun.

ugh