Smokers Delight

I'm sure this is fine if you're a stoner who doesn't have good taste in music.

Very chilled high quality trippy album, jazzy trip hoppy, cool influences,. surprised I've never heard of this before, strong 3 stars for sure.

background music para maconheiros

nada demais. mas também não foi dos piores não. achei ok deixar ele de fundo enquanto caço coisas sobre o processo do meu amigo maconheiro.

Nie miałam żadnych oczekiwań wobec tej płyty, właściwie to nawet spodziewałam się czegoś zupełnie innego, więcej dziwnego reggae, a tu bardzo miłe zaskoczenie. Sporo wpływów z różnych gatunków, a to wszystko w takiej "rozpływającej" się aurze, trochę chillery na ziółku. Mimo to dobre wrażenie, ciekawe odkrycie.

Pleasant. That's all.

relaxing

Pretty uninspired elevator music, and this is coming from a guy who likes elevator music

Reggae trip hop? Never heard of that combination before but I wouldn't have been surprised since they both have a chill, hypnotic vibe to them. This is most definitely background music, something to put on while you study rather than intently listen.

Seems that there are different avenues of listening to music "the right way" even though objectively there aren't any. Using it to study is just one of the more common ways we'd listen to this, but it doesn't make it any better than listening to each track intently (2.5-3).

"Nightmares on Wax" for my birthday. How awesome. I know the album by heart and don't really need to listen to it anymore. But good music is always worth good times. 5/5

For as iconic as the first moments of this album are, they do fall back to be background music pretty quickly. Nice while it's on, but boarders on a bit. 3/5

I’m at a 3.

I mean, look; it’s clearly a record intended as the loose background soundtrack to a smoke session. That should be apparent from the title. When this album wants to kick into more of a natural groove, it is kind of a delight, and I’d say that, as background noise, I enjoyed 8 out of the core 13 tracks here, which I listened to while reading a book. The problem, of course, is that background noise needs to evolve in order to continually stimulate the senses. This album does not fucking evolve its tracks whatsoever, leaving the senses far more prone to recognize the repetition at hand here. It’s like listening to the base of a plunderphonics track without all of the additional samples & instrumentation that’s meant to be layered on top. Admittedly, it’s not too annoying, especially if you’re already the type of person to use Nintendo music as a studying tool (see: me), but the result is that so many tracks feel infinitely longer than their already decently long runtimes due to that lack of extra energy. 72 minutes is a bit absurd here; even an MF DOOM Special Herbs album isn’t anywhere near that long, at least in terms of individually packaged volumes.

It’s also just not structured very well as an album, which is the main reason I’m bumping it down to a 3 – some awkward shifts in the mood from track to track leave it inconsistent in the tone & imagery it’s trying to give off. More than that, this album had a track solely devoted to blowing up a bomb in my ears, as well as putting a Reprise for a track RIGHT AFTER the track it is reprising. Something had to have gotten lost in translation here, because it just feels like a well-intentioned album that doesn’t hit the mark. I want to be nicer to this, but even my nicest outcome would be a 3.5 bumped down to a 3; this isn’t in the territory of a 4 (although I might’ve been generous if this had ended on “Rise”) & it DAMN sure isn’t a 5. It’s a very solid, albeit marginally plain 3 that only occasionally kicks up the energy. It’s great background / chill out music, but it’s just not as compelling of an album experience as it could've been. I don’t know if it had to be on the list.

A bit boring tbh

Some of the other reviews for this album refer to it as "wallpaper," which I find interesting. Sure, wallpaper can just fade into the background if you're not a details person. It can also transform a room and set the feeling of it altogether. And if you look close, wallpaper can have all kinds of interesting stuff going on within it. It also requires skill to pick out the right thing and install it. So, you can call it wallpaper as an insult if you want, but I'll call it the wallpaper that created the perfect mood in my room today.

I'll definitely add this to my personal collection, along with a couple other of his albums

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Es wirkt heute wie der etwas träge Startschuss für das, was später als Chill‑ und Downtempo‑Ästhetik groß wurde. Die warmen Loops und entspannten Beats haben Charme, aber vieles plätschert eher vor sich hin, ohne echte Tiefe oder Spannung aufzubauen. Man hört den Ansatz, aber noch nicht die Reife

With a title like 𝘚𝘮𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘋𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵, I expected something memorable. Instead, I got an album that seems content to coast on the same relaxed grooves for nearly an hour without ever developing them into anything particularly interesting.

The atmosphere is there, but atmosphere alone isn’t enough. Track after track drifts by in the same hazy mood, and before long everything begins to sound interchangeable. I kept waiting for a moment that would surprise me or pull me back in, but the album never really gives me one.

Maybe it works as background music, but as something I’m supposed to actively listen to, I find it painfully monotonous. More than anything, it leaves me wondering why it’s considered essential listening in the first place.

It’s funny generating an album about what I was complaining about the previous day. This list has too many instrumental albums. This just makes good background noise it’s not something that would get my attention. 5/10

Old Sky TV Guide menu music again, but whilst Everything But The Girl at least had some lovely vocals providing an extra layer of depth, this fully drifted into peripheral listening and never really threatened to truly grab my attention. Not bad by any means, but wholly unremarkable.

I always thought that chill-out tracks were created by looping parts of existing songs without the melody track. With that in mind, I find it a bit confusing that Nightmares On Wax’s “Smokers Delight” is being recommended to me as a full-length album. I have to admit that a few tracks on it do show some compositional skill. Still, the difference from my alarm clock’s ringtone wasn’t exactly obvious. Even if the sentence makes little sense out of context: disappointing, as expected.

I think it probably says something about me that I enjoy laid back, repetitive, dub based electronica like this and can't stand repetitive, 4-on-the-floor, dance based electronica.

I hated this. Honestly I didn’t enjoy a second of it. It just seemed to keep going on forever. To give it credit it’s not the worst album I’ve heard on here or anything but it absolutely was not for me.