Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Aug 11 '10
Pros: The ultimate album in blending daydreamy soundscapes with complex, tight grooves.
Cons: The middle isn't quite as spectacular as most of the rest.
Summary: Reviewing one's all-time favorite album is probably a challenge for most music fans. You know what you love about it, but putting it into words to do it justice is another matter, especially when it's capable of creating so many fascinating ...
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Feb 20 '11
Pros: The work is stylistically sound and remains a classic today.
Cons: Short interludes and skits get in the way of the music.
Summary:
Bay-Area producer, DJ Shadow released what is still known today in esoteric reference, "The Album" otherwise known by its marketed name, Endtroducing, in the mid 1990's. The work then was ahead of its ...
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Jan 10 '10
Pros: Powerful entrancing music. Innovative, creative production
Cons: Nope, not for this one, sorry guys
Summary: Honestly speaking, of all the albums that I’ve listened to in my lifetime, only three have truly taken me to a higher listening experience. One is Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the second is Pete Rock and CL Smooth’s Mecca ...
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Oct 14 '07
Pros: It's the greatest produced hip-hop album of all time
Cons: You don't own it
Summary: Whether it be DJ Premier, Dr.Dre, Kno, Stoupe, J-Zone, 4th Disciple, Pete Rock, Large Professor, or RZA, production is crucial for the structure of any song. Without a beat a song is destined for failure. I don't care if even the most ...
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Mar 15 '02
Pros: DJ Shadow bring to hip hop something lacking: unbridled creativity
Cons: You might get lost in these songs
Summary: I first go this album in 96; I was still in high school and didn't know much about sampling, beat production, etc. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd ever heard. Now, as a senior in college with more musical experience under my belt, I...
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Aug 03 '01
Pros: Atmospheres, beats, melodies . . . this album excels in all of those.
Cons: Preemptive Strike has a better version of Organ Donor
Summary: Herc and Flash invented the rig. Bambaataa installed circuit boards. Terminator X turned them into a dangerous weapon. Prince Paul put them on blotter paper. Dre rolled them into a big, fat blunt. Ah, the crazy, crazy things that have been done with...
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Mar 31 '01
Pros: An intense, funky, ground-breaking musical experience.
Cons: Ar times redundant, drawn out
Summary: Portishead and Dj Shadow provided me with an introduction to electronic music. A whole new world of sound and musical possibilities exploded forth from the speakers, leaving me awe struck. Endtroducing, now 5 years old still has the ability to grasp the...
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Mar 08 '01
Pros: Great to kick back and listen to
Cons: some tracks are too long
Summary: The first time I had ever heard of DJ Shadow was at a live performance 4 years ago. Immediately, I knew I was hooked by the slow beats. The music was similar to Portishead, but a bit more mellow with few vocals involved. The missing vocals didn't...
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Nov 15 '00
Pros: I like drums
Cons: much too depressing
Summary: It seems like every DJ out there has there own cd out now.Every time i browse through the DJ's cd's i havent a slightest clue what it will sound like. Cousin Dan is right about a lot of things, but he was definetly wrong about recommending this one to...
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Aug 13 '00
Pros: Innovative, Funky, Fresh, Very Enjoyable
Cons: No Vocal Tracks, Rhythms and Tunes can get Annoying
Summary: After much debating I decided to buy the album “Endtroducing”. To tell the truth, I did not know what to expect at all. The album was released in 1996, and received rave reviews.
What does album sound like?
DJ Shadow...
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Jul 11 '00
Pros: You'll never get tired of it
Cons: None that I can note...
Summary: If you've never heard of trip-hop or don't know what it is, this is a CD you should seriously give a listen to. Trip-hop, in a nutshell is ambient music with a hip-hop drum and bass line. Think Brian Eno meets Run-DMC! The two genres are incredibly...
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Jun 14 '00
Pros: This disc flows well from track to track, and will appeal to many.
Cons: It's not long enough. 8-)
Summary: A while back, MTV was good enough to grace the airwaves with a small sample of M2, their sister network that actually plays videos. They'd show a couple of hours a day for three days straight.
One of the videos they showed was DJ Shadow's...
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Mar 01 '00
Pros: Spacey, funky, drummy, transcending
Cons: Depending on your mood, might seem repetitive
Summary: I just bought my first DJ Shadow CD... I'm pretty psyched.
I heard about Shadow through Radiohead. I'm a big Radiohead fan and had heard Thom Yorke (of Radiohead) mention his respect for Shadow. Thom did a duo with Shadow on the UNKLE CD --...
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Dec 21 '99
Pros: Spellbinding grooves, heavy drum beats, tremendous sample selection, and dark ambience
Cons: Some grooves perhaps a bit too repetitive
Summary: DJ Shadow's "Endtroducing" served as introduction for most of the music community to the man from the Bay area, Josh Davis. And what an explosive debut it was, melding big-beat funk, hip-hop, rock, and chilling ambience with a flair unmatched...
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Nov 03 '99
Pros: Brilliant. Epic. Great. Need I say more?
Cons: ummm...it's not free? That's about it.
Summary: ...here's another one. As you may have gathered if you've read any of the other epinions on the album, it's rather good. In fact, it's mega-grandslam-super-stonkingly good. (Bet you've never heard a music reviewer say that before.) DJ Shadow's music...
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