Reviews (page 8 of 8)
This music is somniferous. And, sure, it is no surprise to find that it is ambient music, if the title of the album does not speak enough by itself. There is a strange conjunction of dance-inspired elements and a very monotonous and minimalistic tone. It does not favour at all this album, and the main reason why is that it becomes very bland and distasteful, and so repetitive. And there is neither a cohesion nor link that unites those songs, they just feel the same boring thing but with different productions. It is surely not something good considering it is meant to be an album... but, well, let's just take another look at the title: Selected Ambient Works 85-92; maybe there is no cohesive intention at all to begin with. And, finally, I find quite exhausting to find that ambient most of the times becomes a synonym of making music that is thought to be listened in the background, with no actual musical interest at all. I can find certain nice elements, other very questionable ones, but there are some nice things, I must say... But... I cannot find any purpose. It does not transmit anything. It does create an atmosphere, but a very polished and loose one. It is just a monotonous sound that does not evolve more than just adding or removing few layers of the songs. The rest is all the same. Something between electronic minimalism and dance music but without any actual joy to it. It feels weak and pretty unattractive. And, to be honest, music should be meant to transmit something and should be meant to be listened (carefully). And this album is none of those things.
Ambient hold music
Why is electronic music?
Bad
Probably just the mood I was in, but I felt overstimulated the whole time.
If you listen to an hour and 15 minute long album and none of it registers, did it really happen?
52 albums in and I've finally had to give a 1 star review. This is literally just background noise. I have several playlists like this on Spotify for when I'm studying or reading and need to drown out other noises, but I'd never tell anyone they needed to hear them before they died. 75 mins of noise and I honestly couldn't tell you one memorable thing about this album. 1*
If there was ever an album that I would like less than this I can’t imagine. Over an hour of just repetitive sound effects! Yuck.
Not my jam. 1.5
This should be considered a must-listen album of all-time? Come on, man. First, it's a compilation, that disqualifies it for me. Second it's just not good enough to be included. It's a playlist you could hear at any dentist's office! WTF, is the Aphex Twin guy the one creating this list?!?! I'm glad she's not singing, I found the other album they have on here to be complete shit. You know AT has same # of entries as Jimi, Petty, Doors, Nirvana, bands that changed R&R. And one more than Journey, Boston, GNR, Pearl Jam, Rage Against The Machine, bands who have influenced so many others. This list has become a farce. One star
Wow an hour and 15 minutes of "ambient" works? Groundbreaking. A lot of the songs were about a 10-note riff played over and over again and then eventually, after many drawn out minutes, had very slight variances. I didn't need to hear this album at any point in time, during any lifetime.
Pleb
UGH!
It's inoffensive enough, but by the end of this I found myself just so annoyed. The repetitive nature of this really ground down my brain. I thought this would be a 2-star for me, but the overall effect on my mood after getting through listening to the full thing is a true 1-star experience.
not my vibe and wouldn’t listen again… did feel like I was on a secret mission on my walk tho
Good for putting you to sleep
when listening to this, I could almost see myself at a rave or all zonked out at like 4am somewhere downtown. I can't say that I enjoyed any of it but I guess it's interesting for it's time and place?
Oh these are the electronic sounds of their times…..I am bored silly with the repetitiveness of each track. They dont change enough to keep me interested. No doubt when they first came out people were hooked with the novelty. Good for trancelike dancing!
Phhh... rubbush
I'ma be so fr this shit like elevator music. If you into House or EDM I'm sure you fuck with this but like, dude they be playing this in like family fun center when you in a heated round of laser tag like be so for real... Favorite track was Ptolemy.
Хоч я послухала увесь альбом, я нічого не запам'ятала. Мені видається дивним, що це вважається кращою музикою усіх часів, годиться максимум як набір саундтреків до якоїсь хоррор-гри. 1,5
esto no tine voz Yisus. Oigan veré a BTS jejjejeje ultra musica de fondo y ni es buena. Bye
Bloop bloop doo doo whirp whirp
Annoying sound effects
No
Even if i didn’t already know that i didn’t like Aphex Twin, the title ‘Selected Ambient Works..’ would not raise my expectations. Unsurprisingly then i dont think there was a single track on this i remotely enjoyed and my god over 7 minutes of ‘We are the music makers’ is enough to push me over the edge.
I did not enjoy the experience of listening to this at all. Hedphelym in particular made me feel really anxious and I genuinely considered bailing out, but I'm 335 albums in and haven't quit an album yet (even Trout Mask Replica!) so I'm not going to let Aphex Twin defeat me. I am clearly a glutton for punishment. I do not "get" ambient music and I certainly didn't enjoy this. 1/5
Obegriplig "musik"
This is basically what I expected. In my opinion: lifeless and uninteresting. Same beats and sounds repeated for what feels like FOREVER and nothing really stands out at all. If I was tripping I think I'd enjoy it. Maybe it's just that this style isn't for me, but I just don't get it.
I remember when this album was the background music to the Weather Channel. I’m expecting to see the 5 day forecast soon after the local radar goes away. It’s also the soundtrack to any generic racing games on the original PlayStation. Yes it’s “music”. Yes people rate it 5 star. Yes the world is filled with idiots. Case in point; this album and the people who love it.
This whole album is just a set of sounds... nothing really too exciting at all, very understimulating, but I guess okay for parts of futuristic-feeling games from the 90s. I don't know what the aim of this is, but I guess there is an audience for it.
Listening to this I'm realizing why The Virgin Suicides is good and this isn't: The Virgin Suicides was half as long; it was musically more interesting; and it had breaks from the ambient stuff.
It sure was a selection of ambient noises. Not really sure why this is on this list.
I wish they had selected fewer ambient works for this album. Goes on far too long. No obvious flow, which was always gonna happen with this kind of project. Weird inclusion on the list.
it's not a music, it is just... sounds
My God almighty this was beyond boring. Not for me at all. I was literally forgetting it as I was listening
Repetitive instrumental electronic music? Hard pass. Best song: I
Büro, Heidenheim, Deutschland. Was ein dummer Müll. Mir bluten die Ohren.
I'm all for some good background music, but this didn't strike my fancy.
Music to match a pc screen saver. It literally does sound like a teenager in his bedroom
I like some ambient and don’t hate techno, but this is not working for me. Songs are either forgettable or annoying. Too distracting to be background music, but too annoying to listen to in the foreground.
The Aristocrats!
Aphex Twin put the ambient in "ambient Electronic Music Shit". That's the better definition for this album. I almost fell asleep listening this.
👎🏻
This is music like my five month old’s sound machine is music.
Album 1006 of 1089 Selected Ambient Works 85-92 - Aphex Twin (1992) Rating : 1 / 5 I’ll apologize in advance for the bluntness, but this was just a piece of crap listen for me. This is exactly the kind of electronica I struggle with the most - repetitive, aimless, and completely lacking anything that grabs my attention or rewards sticking with it. I understand its place in the genre and why it’s praised by fans of ambient and electronic music, but none of that translated into enjoyment for me. It felt less like music and more like background noise that never developed into anything meaningful. No hooks, no movement, no sense of payoff — just long stretches of sound that left me checking how much time was left. I listened, I tried, and I moved on. This one firmly reinforces why electronica remains a genre I rarely connect with.
I listened to it but now you guys need to send me some Beatles, Springsteen or some Stones to get this nonsense out of my head. This was just one long boring, monotonous track.
No Words. A must? This???omg
Average electronic background music. 3/10
Three minutes in and I know I'm going to struggle with this one today. It sounds like the music that would be playing in the showroom of a vaguely upscale car dealership. It is generic and simple and repetitive and artificial sounding. This album is so boring I forgot it was playing. My wife was with me when I listened to this, she typically likes electronic/ambient music, and she commented several times what a garbage album this is. I do not know why this was included on the list and I can't think of any situation where I would recommend this to anyone. 1/5
So uh yeah I really didn't vibe with this. Ambient really isn't my thing but I've heard so much about Aphex Twin and know that this is a classic so I thought maybe I'd like this one. Turns out no, in fact I did not. Darn. 2/10
Sound like the preset sounds on a synthesizer.
MF’ers out here sounding like the Matrix Soundtrack
This is the 223rd album I’m rating. I never listened to Aphex Twin, but I've heard a lot of good things. Adding to my Playlist - Nothing. Not Adding to my Playlist - Xtal, Tha, Pulsewidth, Ageispolis, I, Green Calx, Heliosphan, We Are the Music Makers, Schottkey 7th Path, Ptolemy, Hedphelym, Delphium, and Actium. All in all I liked 0/13 songs. I don't understand why people like this nonsense, but not Haunted Dancehall when they're the same kind of trash.
Grok why is my brain mush? Oh its because I listened to 75 minutes of shitty electronic music
Ugh, no good
This was shit
Not my kinda thing
I don't trust anybody who listens to this for anything beyond background noise
Background noise. Yes, it is arguably ahead of its time, but in terms of the actual listening experience it is just an hour and a quarter of meaningless noise
New wave elevator music
just very much not in the mood for this.
Best Song: Xtal Back in 1992, a 19-year-old attends a rave with a ton of Molly in her system, sucking a pacifier, when a methed-out 23-year-old with more tattoos and piercings than face enters. Aphex Twin comes on and the two grind it out with a concoction of Molly sweat, lube, Boone's Farm, and Zima spritzing passerbyes. The memory of that night is hazy except for the same five beats of Aphex Twin that lasted 90-minutes. Nine months later a future, failed YouTuber is born whose resume never leaves the ""we'll pass"" pile of applicants at Trader Joes.
Alien elevator music. Left me feeling scared, not a fan
Boooring!
What am I listening to???
I really find stuff like this boring
Xtal 2.3 Tha 0.6 Pulsewidth 1.6 Ageispolis 2 i 1 Green Calx 1.3 Heliosphan 2.4 We Are the Music Makers 1.6 Schottkey 7th Path 0.8 Ptolemy 0.7 Hedphelym 0.8 Delphium 1 Actium 0.6 Score: 1.284615385
Definitely ambient
noise
Pass Best Song: Xtal Rating: 2.0/10 (terrible Stars: 1/5
This put the numb in mind-numbingly boring. Really? Why did we get more than one album of elevator music? This is only classified as music for those people who don't listen. Considering this list quotes itself as 1001 albums you must LISTEN to it seems a little oxymoronic.
I was an elementary teacher for 25 years and developed incredible patience. This album tests that patience. I’m sure it has some musical influence but there’s little enjoyment. A simple four minute repetitive drum solo seems like eternity.
Det kan jeg slet ikke lide!
Meh
0,4/5
If you like listening to synth-sounding backing tracks, this one is for you.
I gave Selected Ambient Works 85–92 by Aphex Twin a couple of listens, but honestly, most of it went in one ear and straight out the other. The album feels like it's caught in an endless loop, never really building toward anything or resolving. There’s a drifting, meandering quality to it that, for me, fails to engage. It comes across more as ambient background music than something to actively listen to—and not in a particularly memorable way. At best, it sets a mood. At worst, it's electronic music at its most forgettable. Favourite track: Xtal – largely because it's the first track, and at that point, you’re still interested and hopeful for what’s to come. Least favourite: Pretty much the rest of the album. It blends into a single, indistinct soundscape that left no lasting impression. Album artwork: I actually love the cover—minimalist, iconic, and a perfect fit for the album’s aesthetic.
.......it's electronic music. It's neither bad nor good, it's just there? I dunno, great working music, but just not enough interest for me to tell one from the other.
Music meant to be heard but not listened to.
1.5
Sounded like a kid with a casio keyboard.
It just went on a bit, didn't it? 5.3/10
I’m beginning to feel like I missed out on understanding any appeal of electronica because I wasn’t doing E at clubs in the 90s like apparently everyone who contributed to this list. Every fucking record sounds the fucking same.
Grating background noise. Not a fan.
Boring ambient electronic album
Mind-numbingly boring.
If I'm going to listen to this for an hour I'd better get a plane ticket at the end
Tar mig inte igenom hela plattan. Sjukt dåligt.
I've never forgiven him for the Window Licker video. And I never will......
Une certaine idée de l'enfer.
Banging "hold" music. Zero reason to listen to other than beats to sample.
I thought this would be one of the most interesting albums so far but it was actually one of the hardest to get through. I thought it would be good background music but it was difficult to determine when one song ended and other began, it was soooo long, and it wasn’t that interesting.
nie mój typ
Didn't care
No, not for me chief. Just a lot of white noise and tumbleweed.
WTF?
a million monkeys with a million synthesisers, given enough time will churn out the works of Mozart - guess we need to give them more time cos this is just a collection of sound bites and noises WHY IS IT SO LONG?!?!
Polarisiert. Für die einen Fahrstuhl- und Anrufbeantwortermusik. Für die anderen das ultimative Hörerlebnis beim Drogenkonsum. Ich tendiere zum ersteren. Das liegt aber an meiner mangelnden Drogenerfahrung.
бля да отстаньте вы от меня, это можно свихнуться целый час какие то свистелки перделки слушать
Not sure how it got SO many listens on Spotify. Unremarkable background noise. One long irritating song.
There are only a few electronica/techno bands that I would pay attention to, and I know this band may be considered the grandfather of techno, yet there’s nothing here that tickles my ear.
Nice ambient group. Nice having this type of music at times.
It's not bad, but not for me. I would not listen to this for enjoyment as there is no emontional connection what so ever. It's ok for background music.
Zzzzz Two hours later I thought the album had automatically restarted ....it hadn't ...it was a fly caught inside my office window, desperately trying to get out
Not my cup of tea at all
I’d expect to hear this crap at 4am while on 17 pingas at a terrible techno club.
1 hour and 15 minutes felt like about 7 years...
It didn't take long for me to decide I didn't like this
If I were to open a hair salon or spa in the midwest and wanted to project oan image of trying to hard to be nre age eccentric while bringing "a bit of the big city to middle America" I would loop this album. I can practically taste the hair spray just listening to it.
I'm allergic to electronica so this was an absolute nightmare but I'm sure he was a cool 13-14 year old.
Thought aliens were gonna abduct me listening to this... Not my thing.
Nothing against electronic music but found this uninteresting.
Mag ich nicht. Ist das Funk?
God, I fucking hate ambient music
Interesting but it was literally just sound so it didn’t click with me
Just noises
Pure garbage. Why would anyone listen to this on purpose?
Ambient Electronica…75 minutes of it. And it is everything I feared it would be. Completely unengaging, completely unremarkable, completely forgettable. Certainly NOT essential. Background music for those time when you want to know that the music won’t intrude on whatever it is you’re doing. Actually, it didn’t take long to get downright annoying. I started skipping songs part way through, and couldn’t last till the end. 1/5
Don't think I need to listen to ambient music in any way before I die. I think my life is perfectly fine without it.
"Selected Ambient Works 85-92" is the worst album I've rated (so far) on this list... but, after over 300 reviews, it's the second worst album. A nightmare of baby powder, fluffy clouds, used diapers, and wretched hot boxing.
This was SO LONG and it was not pleasant. One song actually hurt my ears with the repeated notes.
Maybe one or two songs. But a whole album of this! No.
Ambient electronic. No thanks.
Nope
So much noise
There is not a soul in the world, including Brian Eno himself, that could convince me that electronic music as a genre is the least interesting thing to happen to music. I don't care about influence or technical prowess if the whole album is a bag of shit that a braindead coma patient could out perform. Whoever added this album on the list was trying to upset me and it worked. I'm on vacation. Give me something good. 1/5
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
Noooi
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.
Noise
Art Of Noise was good. This was just annoying to me.
Didn't like
1+
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.
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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.
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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
Yawn
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
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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
More insufferable electronica trash
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.
No.
Volgens mij zijn ze vergeten een selectie te maken. Het eerste nummer duurde al 7 jaar.
#ookniksaan
non
näpp. blippetibloppeti till ingens glädje.