Ninety

Roller skating rink music. I don't doubt that building this music and putting it together in a coherent way is very challenging, and it certainly has a beat that can carry you. But just not into the sounds, the style, the little laser-beam beats. Mercifully, just 39 minutes long.

Very bleepy and bloopy.

90 is an album that I'm shocked that i enjoyed as much as i did. I had this album on while i was doing homework for one of my college classes and it fit perfectly as background music. This is an album that already works in that regard but it's got a lot going on as just a simple listening experience. There were so much ambient sounds going on that it really helped this album feel full and rich. Granted there were points where this album could get more noisy than it should be but that was only for two of the 8 songs. The rest of the album though is some really nice and deep electronic music which i seriously enjoyed listening to.
Best Song: Donkey Doctor
Worst Song: The Fat Shadow

Still enjoyable.

Oh no please no. Mancunian Electronic bands are not for me. Electronic Pop like the Pet Shop Boys, sure but this is just hooks with funny noises and feels very clubby, that’s so who I am not. This band influenced acid house music too, just another nail in the coffin for me. Make it stop.

ou é gostosim demais, viu.
acid house de primeira qualidade, bão pra ficar batendo a cabeça e dançandinho. bom album pra trabalhar, inclusive

Ugh, I get zero vibes from this. It sounds like some cheesy, overproduced 80s dance trash that just doesn't hold up. Seriously, without being in a warehouse back in the day, throwing shapes, it's just bland, repetitive, and robotic. It's basically annoying background noise, not music I'd want to listen to.

People say it's groundbreaking, but it sounds like something you'd hear in a bad movie. It's got no soul, and it's just... bad. If this is the best the genre has to offer, I'm gonna find something with some actual character.

Nice, good to work to and a good vibe - glad to have heard this and will come back.

Why does this sound like I'm leaving eBay feedback? "top seller a++ would listen again"

While listening to this, my thoughts constantly oscillated between "WTF am I listening to" and "this is awesome!!!"

This was cool, crazy it came out in ‘89. It sounds way more modern than the 90s stuff I’ve heard off this list.

"It's 1989! It's 4:00 in the morning! We're tripping!" is what I said as the first track started up. It's a good accompaniment to the video I'm watching where somebody put a gopro on their cat and let it out to run around in the snow. Aw look at that cat, it's having fun. OK I think I'm getting a contact high from the music.

This is great stuff. A couple of the tracks had vocals that detracted a bit for me, but it's mostly lots of fun.

4/5 stars

Started off good, aside from the really bad vocals in the first song. Next couple songs were solid aside from some random noises they'd add in repetitively. After that though, things started falling off a cliff a bit. Don't think I've ever had an album start off at a 4 but bumble its way to a 2 before.

Decent enough electronic music, but yeah, too many issues, and the music just isn't solid enough.

215/1089 - Strange and cool. I wonder if anyone at Sega or Namco listened to this, some tracks would work in Super Monkey Ball or Ridge Racer.

Nah man. There is nothing special about this.

This is a pretty cool album, but I think it's a bit uneven. Songs like Kinky National are awesome and I think they hold up quite well. On the other hand, songs like Pacific 202 are not quite hitting. I can't tell if that's because they're just kind of out of date, or if they're just bad songs. But I'll tell you what - when this album gets it right, the songs are BANGING.

This is such a tough rating, because the good songs are *really* good, but the meh songs just drag down the overall vibe. 3.5 is the right call here, but do I bump it half a star or dock it half a star? Considering how early this album is in the electronic era, I'm leaning towards a bump. Because this isn't early, German, experimental noise electronica, it's catchy, bouncy and revolutionary.

although highly unlikely, it is possible for someone to get - in one week - the albums 21, 25, 90, 1984, 1989, 1999 and 2112. and i think that would be a really funny thing to happen to someone.

anyways shoutout to the fish on the album cover

Conditional 5: be in a french laundromat on a rainy day. This album hit the spot in a really cool and weird way

It’s a soundtrack to a Super Nintendo game. 1.75

Esta parte de "Madchester" tan electrónica es la que menos me interesó, aún así la escuché bastante en su época y llamarse 808 les honra por homenajear a la máquina. Recordaba "Magical dream" y "Cobra Bora" por el título y al escucharlo también "Ancodia", "Pacific 202" que debe tener parte de la culpa de todos los saxofones que se metieron después todos los DJ en los años 90 o "808080808". Mucho mejor de lo que recordaba y esperaba.

This album manages to seamlessly be both evocative of the 80s without being outdated, nearly pioneering a sound that can be heard not only in acid house scenes of the 90s, but also genres such as hip hop or IDM. It knows how to tread lightly when it comes to sampling, although that doesn't mean you don't get a few cheeky ones in there that are fun to spot, and overall the whole project is just a lot of fun. More energetic than its contemporaries, 808 State manages to present a mostly instrumental release while still keeping it engaging to the common folk, especially boosted by its oh-so-familiar PlayStation-like sound design, although obviously years before that console's appearance. It just comes off as a love letter to the lighter electronic tunes that came before, whilst ushering in a new scene that takes the genre more seriously, giving way to a nice blend. Helping things tremendously is its relatively short runtime, in which later electronic albums seemed to ignore concise and tight instrumentation, while this one nails it. It does have some hiccups in the way of still being relatively repetitive, as many tracks can be cut down a minute or two with little loss, and I can't imagine legitimately getting up and dancing to this, instead it feels more like playing a racing game, and I'm never sure if that's a compliment or not. But this album still has enough bright moments for me to appreciate and enjoy what it presents. Hoping an earlier or later release from this group may click with me even more, but this album may have hit that groove just right.