Selected Ambient Works 85-92 by Aphex Twin

Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Aphex Twin

3.21
Rating
22449
Votes
1
9%
2
20%
3
29%
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26%
5
16%
Distribution

Reviews (page 8 of 8)

Not ambient enough to be enjoyable

Not my style

D Xtal 2 Tha 1 Pulsewidth 2 Ageispolis 2 I 1 Green Calx 1 Heliosphan 2 We Are The Music Makers 2 Schottkey 7th Path 1 Ptolemy 2 Hedphelym 1 Delphium 1 Actium 1 Utter garbage.

Ethereal background music

More ambient BS 🥱😴

Don't know who they are and I don't care. I will not be listening to them ever again. This was a truly ghastly record and should have never been allowed to see the light of day. Was a waste of my time

Uih - Industrial… -> please give me other stuff. Thanx :-)

Do not like

Not my music

the foundation for an excellent electronic album is here, but then absolutely nothing is done with it. it is truly designed to be ambient music, so there is nothing notable about it. this album is designed to be nothing, so my rating will give it the same

1. ztal - 1.5 2. tha - 1 3. pulzeuuidth - 0 4. ageizpoliz - 0 5. I - 1 6. green calz - 1 7. heliozphan - 1 8. uue are the muzic - 0 9. 7th path - 0 10. ptolemy - 1 11. hedphelym - 1 12. delphium - 0 13. actium - 0

# 150 : Can't Listen - don't like it - Just the name of it sounds bad…. Another long and drawn out piece of BORING elevator music.

Art Of Noise was good. This was just annoying to me.

Didn't like

I feel I’m wasting hours of my life listening to god awful albums like this one. NEXT!

Not a fan. Industrial Anya with no cohesion.

Not my jam. Could hear how it's influenced modern electronic but the songs never seemed to hit the part I would like.

really boring :(

So tired of electronic music selections.

I thought this felt aimless and too dull. I can’t see how it would be 1 of the 1001 albums to listen to before you die.

Don’t see the appeal whatsoever except as a movie soundtrack. Doesn’t stand on its own one bit in my opinion.

uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha uncha one star.

I'm very much surprised. I know and like Aphex Twin from songs like Come To Daddy, or whatever his other good songs are named. But I've never heard of his ambient work and I wish it would remain this way forever. Is it revolutionary? Maybe at the time, I'm not historian to say that. But is it nice to listen to right now, in 21st century? Not even in the slightest. What I remember from this album is a constant stomach ache from those beautiful tracks. So just let me forget it and move one to next one.

Boring

I know it’s considered amazing and classic and groundbreaking but it’s just dull to my ears. Ambient techno does NOTHING for me or too me. Maybe if I was a robot in 1993 I’d find this amazing, but even the robots now would likely find this too simplistic. Sorry not sorry.

Half hold music, and half the background music after you finish a race in F Zero and you're looking at the results. Didn't get anything out of this, but to be fair I'm listening in a context that doesn't suit it (eagerly awaiting a new Greatest Album every day). Dunno why it's on the list though. On the bright side it didn't distract me from my admin!

Every person I know who loves Aphex Twin suffers from crippling migraines. These two things may not be unrelated.

aem... okay(?)

Is this like the background music for The Sims or something? I'm going to get medieval on someone if this fucks up my Spotify algorithm.

Yes aphex twin

Oh no, not some more fucking electronica. Have I not suffered enough listening to this garbage already? With an album title like that, I am not optimistic of the contents of this record. Apparently everyone sweats Richard D. James (and this record in particular) because, as the name suggests, this is a subset of music he wrote between 1985 and 1992, meaning the earlier songs would have been written when he was 14 years old. Ok, that's cool, but it's not like he wrote a fucking symphony at that age. He pushed some buttons and spliced soundbytes together. Anyways, on to the record. As I thought, this is the dullest, most bland elevator music imaginable overlaid with a strong drum beat. I will give Aphex Twin props, at least it has a beat, unlike some other electronica I've listened to on this generator. So, one can infer that, at 14 Richard was smarter than some of these "artists" in this genre, so good for him!! The spacey sounds that most of these strung out bastards seem to enjoy are alive and well on this record. Green Calx sounds like aliens who are involved in a gun fight with all the laser noises and boops and beeps. This shit lulls you into a trance. As background music it gets a pass, but to sit and focus on this would be almost impossible. 9 minute songs where they establish a beat, then nothing else happens, just repeat the same beat loop 500 times and call that a song. Awful. I wish I knew why electronica artists as a group decided to make their shitty records over an hour long. I don't want to listen to this shit for 10 minutes, let alone an hour. Listening to gorilla's bang would be audibly better than this album. Favourite songs: Pulsewidth Least favourite songs: Hedphelym.... Probably others as well, but it all ran together into a boring mess that I've already forgotten about. 1/5

This is noise.

Wtf is this shit

An hour and thirteen minutes of background music. Why are there so many electronica albums in this experiment

p679. 1992. 1.5 stars Background synth music. Well done but instantly forgettable, and it really outstays its welcome. Someone whistle me a tune from any of the 74 tedious minutes. Anyone? No, thought not.

Not for me

Terrible music, I don’t like it. Makes me unrestless…

Dang, 2 ambient albums in a row. Just not for me. Was so bored throughout. Just felt like an hour of a video game on a pause menu.

Not my type

Pioneering at the time - not really my thing today, kinda boring. Good bg music.

This is the kind of music you can put in the background of a slide show or an animation.

not for me.

I’m not a fan of electronic music at all so it all just sounds the same after 10 minutes. Maybe for people who are into the genre might enjoy it but definitely not for me.

I just couldn't get into this at all. No tune, just a beat with sounds. It was hard to distinguish one track from another.

DNF Just sounds man... kinda calming tho

This was dumb. I mean, kudos for doing this before GarageBand came out and made it so much easier - but I just can't bring myself to care.

Volgens mij zijn ze vergeten een selectie te maken. Het eerste nummer duurde al 7 jaar.

#ookniksaan

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