Reviews (page 7 of 8)
Never heard of Can. Not a fan.
Definitely something new. Not the greatest
This album had me on board until a bit over the half hour mark when I hit Aumgn and Peking O. Aumgn was pretty much just a collection of sounds and lacked any structure long enough to hold my interest. Peking O was way too experimental and avant-garde, pretty much unlistenable. These two songs alone take up more than 29 minutes of the album! My song ratings on this one range from 1 to 5 stars so the average should be a 3 but the two songs noted above seriously drag this album down so I can't give it more than a 2. Normally I wouldn't ever listen to a 2-star album again but I wouldn't mind revisiting the first half of the album.
C Paperhouse 3 Mushroom 4 Oh Yeah 3 Halleluhwah 3 Aumgn 1 Peking O 1 Bring Me Coffee or Tea 3 After taking a peak in r/vinyl this week, I learned that anyone who doesn't have Can in their collection is either a moron or uncultured. Coincidentally, I got Tago Mago on the generator a few days later and was able to put them to the test. Final conclusion: vinyl snobs are some of the internet's worst personalities. That has nothing to do with Can though.
Hef heyrt margt flott með CAN, og næsta plata á eftir þessari er mjög góð en þetta er nú helst til tilraunakennt fyrir mig (ég er að horfa á ykkur Aumgn og Peking O), og Suzuki söngvari hefur átt betri daga. Mushroom er helst vænlegt, hitt er meh...
This was too much for me at times.
I just couldn't even get myself to focus on this music. Sometimes I noticed an interesting sound, most of the time my brain just tuned out.
Meh
I just Can't get into this band. The yelly singing drives me nuts.
Aumgn is like a bad trip and so is Peking O, but at least that one has a part that is listenable. The rest of the album is alright.
This album started out funky and fresh, but ended in the gnashing of teeth. I will seek out more CAN.
17 minute songs are cool and all but not when they suck
Am I wrong to have thought that there's an electronic band also named Can? Or is that this same band and they just hadn't got to that point yet when this record came out? Either way, I was expecting keyboards and banging on kitchen appliances and instead I got what struck my ears as a psychedelic jam band. (Redundant?) I'd have to listen to this one again to give it a fair shake, but I didn't hate it on the surface.
Pretty unremarkable. I wouldn't be mad about it being on or anything but I wouldn't really notice either. 2.5
This was an experience... so side one (as the kids say) was very very good, a tad pretentious but I dug it. The side 2 started and after 15 mins of the 17 min track I honestly thought the umbongo theme was about to start playing, then an 11 min track happens where a man wails down the mic for the majority of it and because of how terrible side 2 was it loses 2 stars
If I was only rating the first album, I'd go with a 3...maybe even a 4. It's dated, but has some good grooves. I liked Paperhouse and Halleluhwah a lot. Mushroom sounded like they were on shrooms, but wasn't terrible. Oh Yeah sounded like the shrooms were kicking in, but had a decent groove. But then the second album...absolute pure complete crap. Here are my notes: Aumgn: More shrooms...definitely out there and too long. Somewhat disturbing. Peking O - Pure crap...about halfway in is horrendous. And so on. What a shame. I'd like to give it a 3 as an average, but the second album is so bad I can't go that high. 2 it is.
Première moitié "classique" : oui ok sans plus. Deuxième moitié expérimentale : j'ai complètement lâché l'affaire, et même failli ne pas finir. Je comprends pas trop le délire.
First songs were sort of a vibe but the last half was sounding more and more like an occult ritual or something.
Some bangers, but also a lot of psychedelic noise jamming.
At times it felt like the songs would never end, and not in a pleasant way. Some good ideas are buried in the mire though.
I enjoyed the first few tracks but it eventually descended into a cacophony which I wasn’t enjoying. I wouldn’t seek it out again so I’m going to be harsh, 2*
I must admit that I was quite busy so didn't get a huge amount of time to listen. It was OK -- a bit repetitive but inoffensive background noise.
The first three tracks were not really my jam, but they were tolerable. Then came the rest of the album…Nope and nope.
2/5. I definitely understand how unquiet this album is with it's extended experimental music, and trust me I love progressive rock, but this isn't it. It's not terrible but is hard to listen to sometimes. I would need to be in a specific mood and don't think I got that in me for a bit. It's a 2 because I don't hate it, just not going to sit and listen to it all the way through.
Some groove, some jams way too zonked out for anyone to enjoy straight
There's some fun stuff here but also some weird ass stuff. Aumgn could be a horror movie score.
Kind of a weird experience. This was not very good and ultimately pointless but there were a couple of songs that I didn't mind having on when I wasn't paying too much attention. Seemed like a few relatively talented musicians formed a jam band and then just wanted to see how strange they could get.
The first half of the album was pretty decent even with an 18 and a half minute song, but for that to then be followed by 17 and a half minutes of moaning was rough. Just a strange listen, every time Krautrock starts to pull me in it somehow immediately flips on itself and loses me again.
Krautrock. Rallante. Un 2.
Wowzer. I didn't like it. And then I really didn't like it. 1.5 rounding up for the boldness of the attempt. Fair enough having it on this list.
I Can appreciate bits of what's hear, you Can certainly hear it's influence. But I'd be happy if I Can live the rest of my life without this album darkening my door again.
The first few songs were pretty good, but it all got a bit abstract towards the end.
Was pretty average, some songs went on for too long
Noch ein weiteres Album von CAN? Das ist jetzt 3 (inklusiv des Albums vom Sänger) ohne echten Grund. Wer ist dieser Typ denn eigentlich? Warum kennt ihn keine außer Robert Dimery? Man könnte wohl seine ziemlich reguläre Anwesenheit als eh... unerklärlich beschreiben. Aber wenns um die Auswahl von Dimery geht, sollte man wahrscheinlich nichts anderes erwarten... Ok, es hat relativ akzeptabel angefangen, klang wie... Musik, eigentlich. Ja klar, alles ganz normal. Vllt nicht so meins aber deutlich als Rockmusik aus den 70en erkennbar. Aber... langsam wirkte es stranger und stranger, bis es total unangenehm war. Am Ende hatte ich einfach die Nase komplett voll davon. 2/5.
Couldn’t really get into it. I didn’t feel any sort of narrative was being told, no distinguishable parts. It was intriguing at times but it was no more than background music for me
None for me, thanks.
WTF am I listening to.
Terrible production, no high point, no songwriting, this was a tough listen.
Weird
Daar had ik geen zin!
Beetje moeilijk te doorgronden na slechts 1 luisterbeurt en helaas niet boeiend genoeg om er meer tijd aan te besteden.
Op zich niet vervelend, maar ik kon er ook niet echt Kaas van maken
De eerste paar nummers vond ik wel interessant eigenijk. Maar de tweede helft van deze plaat was echt volkome ruk. Hoezo zou ik 18 minuten naar wat rare geluiden willen luisteren? Volledig doorgedraaid in het experiment.
Het begon leuk, maar allemachtig: wat een ellende weer.
Ugh the weird noises on Aumgn were not for me. The album started out ok but went off the rails
i was quite enjoying this but by the end i was forced to concede that it's bollocks
For the most part it was a nice example of the genre with it's own quirks which keep it interesting with Aumg and a few other parts it carries it into a bad acid trip in the making, it does well with its inspiration of Aleister Crowley and the occult. I saved a few tracks into a playlist others I'll relive in my nightmares and discuss with my therapist in years to come.
This album started out good, but just got kind of strange. Seems like more of a thought experiment than a coherent album.
Man, what a weird album. It's funny how it's 70 some minutes long, but it's only got 7 songs on it. I got tired of it pretty quickly, and those very long songs really cemented this as a 2 star for me. I'm just glad it's over with. My favourite song was Mushroom.
Experimental, I get it. But theres a 17 minute “song” that sounds like yawning for most of it. 2.5 rating only for the experimental sound
Meh
Geen pretenties, gewoon wat langdurig jammen en maar zien waar je uitkomt. Het resultaat is wat problematisch: ja, het is een lollige trip, maar je vraagt je wel af: wanneer zou ik zoiets eigenlijk willen luisteren? Als je net een abstract schilderij zit te maken, een hoorspel over ruimtevaart opneemt of wanneer je nostalgische herinneringen aan het spookslot van de Efteling ophaalt. Niet zo vaak dus.
Some cool stuff I guess but most of the back half is painful. Props for them for doing something like this in 1971 but not for me
So jazzy. Great musicianship but I couldn’t sit through this one.
Wasn't listening
forgettable but ok
Cool, but not really for me. I love prog-rock, but this album feels like it doesn't go anywhere; it doesn't tell a story or even induces an emotional connection. Im sure it does for some, or maybe I need to try it again on a different day, but I wouldn't say I like it.
What the heck has Aumgn? And Peking O? I can't.
Got a bit lost in this one TBH, couldn't get a feel for where they were trying to takee
To be honest very hard to listen album.... The concept is nice and sonorities are mostly enjoyable (not all however...) You catch yourselfmov8ng your head from time to time and sometime surprised by weird noises that sound good.... But the length of the album and some bad moments of the album really take you out if you listen to the album as a whole.... Decent but not it. Small 2.5/5
Pas trop fan du rock choucroute
2.5?? What did that turn into
Basically the definition of the "is we play it weird, it will be good!" mentality. It's just not good. Thankfully, there are enough good moments to salvage a 2.
Sorta more art noise with a guitar minimal, percussion bent. I thought it had enough attitude to be Japanese, if that means anything.
Las 4 primeras canciones bien, pero a partir de ahí es demasiado para mi cuerpo. De media se queda en 2 estrellas **.
No tengo el nivel mental para oír Krautrock, lo reconozco. Necesito estructuras tradicionales, melodías, letras, etc… Es un disco difícil de digerir que puede ser un ejemplo perfecto para quienes buscan algo fuera de los esquemas que están ya muy utilizados. Ellos como instrumentistas son muy buenos, pero no es algo que llega a lucir mucho porque se diluye en la falta de forma.
p235. 1971. 2 stars. 70's German prog-rock/jazz wankage with Japanese vocals. Let's not forget that previous collaborations between Germany and Japan have not ended well. Alarm bells went off as soon as I looked at the track times... 7:28, 7:23, 18:32, 17:37, 11:37, 6:27. FFS. Early fears confirmed, lots of pointless noodling and dodgy vocals. Outstays its welcome after 5 mins. Shame as the bass and drums are really tight - all sorts of future influences for 90's club and dance. Never trust a double album made by German hippies.
First impression: "Interesting". Alas, the album is marred by a latter half that's best described as a bad acid trip.
Only one song saved
meh
Too experimental and a lot of unpleasant noise. 1.5/5
Uhh... I liked parts of it? Then it got fucking weird. I can enjoy weird but sometimes it goes in the direction of just fucking with you and I couldn't really stand that. It's certainly an experiment to say the least. I'm happy to have listened to it since I never would have but I don't think I'll be visiting this again.
Mostly too long, but has some good moments.
Songs are too long, vocals too quiet, but okay as background.
Hmm, eh. I want to like experimental music but this album just didn't catch my attention much at all. Vocals were much in the background, music felt very disorganized which I get was their aim, but I didn't find many interesting phrases throughout
This was trippy
Låter som när jag hittade garageband som en tolvåring
No no no - way too busy and chaotic for me!! So stressful puts me in a bad mood. I can see that other people with "normal" brains could love this. It is cool but it just stresses me out so much I can't even figure out which elements I like etc.
A little too weird for my taste.
Rock experimental. Demasiado largo y pesado.
Nope.
Im dalej tym gorzej się robi
Oh boy more 70s psychedelic woo hoo. This one didn’t do it for me and I can’t even be bothered to fully listen to it right now as I play elden ring
Not my thing.
Interesting blend of rock and out there ambient expiramentation. Cool as a museum piece. Aumgn is a deep trip down the rabbit hole. Peking-O is a bundle of trash falling on a crazy cat lady.
2/5
Not my kind of thing - maybe if I'm in the mood, it would be worth trying again but it's a bit too hard work.
Pas si nul mais très chiant quand même! Halleluhwah ok
The first quarter of this LP slays, full of crunchy krautrock riffs on top of smooth, infectious grooves. The rest is its Achilles heel, however, as things get way too experimental and out there to support interest in the rest of a 2 hour album.
I do not dig it
Some of this wasn't bad, but a lot of it was a lot of bad.
good lord, i was listening to the first half and thinking "damn this is some pretty good psychedelic rock, i wonder why the other guys rated it so poorly" and then i got to the back half and i realized. 3/10, I wish I could rate it higher because the first half is 4/5 star quality, but Aumgn and co. just make it unlistenable as an album
4/10. What if Pink Floyd was really boring? Some of these longer songs could almost be video game music if you dropped the occasional lyrical sections, and if they were they'd be pretty cool. Even still, the length of this makes listening to it as an album pretty rough.
From a historical perspective, I understand why this album is on the list and I appreciate its influences on experimental music. From a listening perspective it's awful. First half is alright while the second half goes completely off the rails, including an amazing impression of the Tasmanian devil, the ambient sound of an industrial freezer, and a couple of those infinitely rising tones. 3/10
Although I love me some funky riffs, this was all over the board and far too long
I hated almost every single second of this. Saved from the 1 star because I still prefer it to U2 or Erikah Badu
No thanks
Nope
Started well enough but overly long and ended up fucking me off.
Woof. I was really excited to listen to Can after hearing them referenced so heavily. Album starts out great, but holy shit I was not ready for the 17 minute ambient “experimental” clusterfuck, which the album never really recovers from.
still all sounded the same, hopefully itll start growing on me eventually
it's experimental music for sure. I'm good though.
long experimental psychedelic grooves - obviously an influence on the Happy Mondays and the groovier side of Primal Scream, very much a record of its time.
I get it that this is a classic and that krautrock is an evolutionary step forward in modern music, but I wasn't in the mood for meandering jams at the time of listening. I'm grateful for what it inspired downstream.
I wonder if the Happy Mondays were inspired by this? The album sounds like an early prototype for Shaun Ryder's lyrics and vocal delivery. There is even a song called 'Hallluhwah'. Anyway, not quite my bag.
Noisy sound effects. Mostly garbage.
I’m sure this was influential to many. But as an album not the best listen
I understand that Tago Mago has been extremely influential on many pieces of experimental and Krautrock, but it's just not very good music in my opinion. It's confusing, loud, and annoying. I am not in the mood to drop acid to enjoy this, but it is not the worst thing I have ever heard.
started strong, then got real weird
Joah… mir zu uneingängig
So kompliziert bin ich nicht
Rating: 4/10
First disc is decent, but the second is pure shite wasting my time.
I like the instrumentals the first part of the album. Very funk influenced, but as the album progressed, it become grating and too experimental, bordering on random sounds mashed together in a wild mess that resulted an unpleasing sound to listen to
In this case, historical significance didn't translate into an enjoyable, or even interesting experience.
Listening to this album is like babysitting someone through the stages of a shroom/LSD trip, which is not something I care to do.
I couldn't really get a handle on this, it's all a bit disjointed and difficult to connect with. There are moments that I enjoyed but this album struggled to hold my attention. It's strange, it's very nearly good but there's just something, some indescribable ingredient, that is noticeably missing.
Not a fan of very long songs
3.4 did not give a full listen oh well
Started off ok then by halfway through I was praying for it to be over. Very interesting album but songs too long and experimental for me
Aumgn and Peking O are truly terrible. In Aumgn, there was literally a ghoul moaning over ambient sounds for 10 minutes. In Peking O, someone was literally screaming at me in gibberish for 10 minutes. Hard pass. The first 3 tracks give me strong Radiohead vibes so I wasn't expecting the assault.
Started off well enough
Muy raro. Pensaba que me iba a gustar, pero no ... Experimental, sonidos raros.
Very bizarre, a little spooky. But interesting
Very very odd, strange, discordant. I "liked" one of the songs (Vitamin C) but doubt I'd ever listen to it or any of this album ever again. Interesting and creative
Bra groove , stört långa låtar dock
Bullshit!
Jag gillade den förra krautrock-skivan men detta var fruktansvärt. Oljud!
meh
Major props to Can for not exceeding my sub-ground level expectations for this flaming pile of elephant droppings
I genuinely think they're capable of making good music, but it's so pretentious to think anyone wants to hear you just dick around for an hour
Why
Jesus fucking Christ
I think if you were high listening to this you would have a panic attack. I wasn’t high and I almost did
Best Track - "Mushroom"
Argh.. too bad
The first little bit of this album was solid, but then everything goes off the rails. Won’t be returning to this one.
What the hell happened to this album? It started out decent. The music was good but I wasn't crazy about the vocals. As we got deeper into the album it just devolved in to 20 minutes of nonsense. Not just 20 minutes of nonsense lyrics. It was just noise. What a weird spiral into a 1 star rating
I was in, until I really, really wasn't. Is this a Krautrock thing, where one half of an album is good and the other half is unlistenable noise? I swear, this keeps happening to me with Krautrock.
Can't
So long and so annoying. Closest thing to an Asian album is a Japanese singer in a German band.
Super raro. 2/10
1/5
Absolutely not.
Awfull
This album is like if a panic attack was boring
Krautrock is a funny name for a Genre. But I'll be damned if my ancestors stormed the beaches of Normandy just for me to listen to a knockoff version of psychedelic rock... 'Murica!
It was going to be two stars but any artist that records a track like ‘Aumgn’ and thinks “yeah this is a great piece to put out there” deserves a one star. ‘Aumgn’ and ‘Peking O’ are especially excruciating.
This had decent/mediocre stuff in the beginning but then quickly diverted to garbage.
The first two songs were so much better than yesterday’s album, despite the mumbling, I was thinking this might be a three; however, that rating dove sharply the further into the hour-plus album I went. Props to the percussion, but the rest is experimentally mental.
Really not for me. Seemed very loose and held together by random screeching
Good Lord, this was terrible
Wenz: Hmm, it is a no no for me 😅 couldn’t vibe with it. Shermz: haha it’s just noise 🥲
80% straight bullshit 20% acceptable 1.5/5
No me dieron ganas de escucharlo de lo tedioso que era pero hice el esfuerzo, no me gustó para nada
I made the mistake of listening to this in the bath, and it was not relaxing at all. Not good.
1/10 This is the first one I didn't manage to get through. Simply not for me.
an album not meant to be listened to i can respect it, but cannot give it a higher rating
diosss es inescuchable
Weird and long, nothing really interesting. Moving on. Best song: Paperhouse
У меня язык не повернётся назвать это музыкой
Not as bad as I was expecting, with a summary that says "experimental." But still unenjoyable. I think the lead singer would have been better suited to a punk band.
Do not waste your time
First listen
2/10
Mushroom head? Mushroom head! Yeah, this certainly was experimental and I did not enjoy being experimented on.
This was awful
Pfff... Too proggy for me
Woah ok. Kinda Beatles sounding actually. I have no idea what words are being said right now. Like yeah man what are we talking about. Krautrock. Interesting. The Germans are always up to some bullshit tbh. I really don't know how to feel about this. It's something. I don't know what but something. Are they singing backwards?? I don't like this. And of fucking course it's white 70s rock. Of course. And I've finally found one that's doing something different and it's somehow worse. Holy fuck. Just take some more acid and call yo uber big dog what are we doing. Hey so that's actually not a song it's just noises. This is definitely so hype for a certain demographic that I unfortunately do not contain within myself. Favourite: Bring Me Coffee or Tea Least favourite: Aumgn
What the heck was that. I have no interest in listening to that again. I am not sure why this is on the list
Wtf
Suena mejor de lo que esperaría considerando lo que anticipaba, pero me aburrí zarpado. Interminable. Temas larguísimos que se sienten como escuchar un soundtrack más que una canción per se. No mi estilo at all, y si supiera que es el estilo de alguien dudaría fuertemente de si no está siendo un snob nomás.
Pretty mid. Thought the first song was decent but got way too weird for me with the 18 minute long songs and their boring sequences.
Previously unknown. By turns obnoxious and boring.
This was just awful. I wanted to rate it negative stars.
whenever something like this ends up on the 1001 best albums ever, i have to conclude that either: 1. the authors procrastinated and then had to rush to fill out the list 2. they have awful taste 3. there aren't 1001 good albums of music out there somewhere in the middle of the 17 minute 'song' of groaning i started to believe it's number 3.
Nope is spelled Tago Mago
It’s weird bc I like the velvet underground
Good grief! Should I have partaken in drugs to have enjoyed this?! Utter noise!
was originally 3/5 then i started finishing the album. the fuck are we doing. stop making 20 minunte long songs of random fuck ass noise.
Certainly music, though I didn't really enjoy it or ever want to think of it again.
Abysmal. Absolutely not deserving of being in this list.
Un des pires album que j'ai écouté. J'ai détesté le coté "expérimental" qui faisait plus tentative de sortir de la norme plutôt que réelle expression artistique, si il y avait une note 0, ce serait pour lui. Il n'y a aucune valeur ajoutée à écouter cet album
An incredibly annoying album. It took a lot of patience to finish it
Nope.
Just noise that causes headache. Perfect tool for Quantanamo Bay. After listening to this album in complete length, you'll confess everything.
Seriously?
I thought this album was fine to listen to in the background until Aumgn came up. I'm sure a lot of critics who take themselves too seriously will claim this is high art or something but this feels like the musical equivalent of some ramblings of a drug addict. I could probably record this too with a gram of psychedelics and a synthesizer. I guess one positive thing to say about this is that it's very inspiring for new artists because if this can be top 1000, anyone can be top 1000
not for me
I propose a prerequisite for this list: an album should actually contain music to be allowed on.
Dull and incoherent. What are we doing here?
While the first half had some redeeming qualities, the second half made Trout Mask Replica sounds like the white album. Maybe if i was also dealing with the physiological pain of what my parents and grandparents just did in the war i also would make "Peking O"
I never heard of Can even though 1971 was right in my prime music listening era. Now, I know why. If I didn't know this album was from the early 70s, I would have guessed it was the mid-90s while listening.
Tough to get through. Long and upsetting.
Could not finish, oof.
non.
Honestly, I couldn't get into it. 1 star.
not my thing 1.5/5
The first few songs were really jamming. Aumgn went off the deep end with some psychedelic moaning
Not familiar with Can but prior krautrock entries have been a nice little surprise for something different that I wouldn't normally be exposed to. I wasn't minding Tago Mago for a little while. Nothing special but a couple of decent tunes to zone out to. Then about 30-minutes in it took a complete turn. It devolved to a bunch of way-too-long minimalist experimental bologna. I feel like I typically have a pretty wide range for this type of thing and even if it's not my cup of tea I can appreciate an artist going off the rails to do something weird. This was not the case for the back half of Tago Mago which was pretty much a bunch of nonsense. I'm not sure why this would deserve praise or critical acclaim. I don't think I'm missing anything so I'm not sure who would enjoy the 30-minute detour this album took. Save your time and opt to listen to something else. 1.08 stars
It was okay and then...HalleluBOAH... Absolutely hated this. What sick people write "music" like this?
Wtf was that?
It was Fine until it took a sharp turn into haunted house sound effects in track 5, and somehow only got worse from there
How many albums of free-form jazz fusion-inspired nonsense are needed on a list of 1001 great albums that has somehow managed to exclude every single album by Warren Zevon? I can't imagine that anyone other than the surviving members of Can and their immediate families would think any less of the list if this album had been left off.
Albsolute brainflood music. I'm sure it's very technically accomplished but it is a tad experimental for me.
I think that we should sort of stop equating longer with better. This album is pretty boring to say the least. If you wanna make a good album with a length runtime, make it as cohesive as possible. Also the songs were pretty annoying and almost pretentious. Like, what the hell is Aumgn? An 18-minute non-song of a guy messing around with a soundboard in a cave? In that case, than that's what it is. It is way to experimental that it doesn't even sound like music, it sounds like a unearthed demo soundtrack for A Clockwork Orange or a Kubrick film that was made before he became a famed filmmaker. Sorry for the long complaining but I just do not like albums like this. It gets to a point where experimental turns stupid and this crossed that barrier. Favorite Tracks: Paperhouse, Oh Yeah Rating: 1/5
I was kinda into it until the 16 minutes of haunted house noises. Didn’t get better from there.
Was a pretty cool pschadelic sounding album until the overpowering random screeching and annoying noises.
Experimental avant-garde music sucks. This sucks.
I understand why this is "influential" and there are moments that they are clearly looking into the future like on Peking O. However, that doesn't mean I have to like it this was about as tough a listen as we've had on this list.
Yuck. It started off like something at least listenable but in the 2nd half its just spacey noise. Pretty shit not gonna lie. The first long ass song was OK for the first 3 minutes then I was done for the next 15. Terrible. Im sure I just dont get it or care to get it but if u wanna make it for me and my selfish ass make this shit 3 min long max. Too long and it makes my brain go numb. I was gonna give it a 2 for the first few but even then those aren't great. Not for me dawg
What was the intent of this album in this list? This was a makeup after I already rated 100+ albums, and I have basically no reaction to this entry other than WHY? Listened before?N Saved any tracks? N Favorite tracks? None of them ⭐️ Did not hate. Did not understand it.
I promised myself I'd try to make it all the way through every album. I had to stop #17 (Bug) a few seconds into the last song, but otherwise I've been OK. I stopped this one halfway through. I guess avant-punk Krautrock is so far outside my comfort space as to be unlistenable.
hell no. i know myself to like rlly niche and avant-garde stuff, but this rlly is on a whole other level the album started rather prog-rock, with stuff you’d expect from king crimson. then it got a bit weirder, into kid-a and mogwai territory, and by time i got to the last 3 tracks, i literally had to skip them all. never ever has a song made me feel so uncomfortable and so strange!!! peking-o and bmcot were kinda strange in a boring way, but i literally could not bear to listen to amugn for more than 10 minutes. horrifying, really uhmmmmmmmm only song i remotely like is paperhouse, bc of its rock nature that now im coming to appreciate due to how fucking freaky everything else is
boring
Come on, man
Interesting for the time of release; not much else.
No thanks
Luister, ik ben progrock gaan waarderen. Echt waar! Steely dan met Aja is absoluut een fantastisch album. Maar dit? Nee sorry, dit is echt dus 3 keer niets. Het heeft ontzettend lange nummers(18 minuten voor 1 nummer? Doe ff normaal...) En ik ben best down voor progrock die ingewikkeld is, maar dat is hier niet perse het geval. Er zijn langgerekte stukken waarin eigenlijk niet echt iets gebeurd, buiten een soort didgeridoo stuk? Is dat vet? Ik ben er eigenlijk niet zo weg van. Misschien begrijp ik hierin niet het achterliggende thema, omtrent jungle of mystiek, maar het ontgaat me volledig waarom dit nu zo vet zou moeten zijn. Het is wel een oud album, 1971 om precies te zijn, dus misschien is het het eerste album dat dit soort geluiden in een wat meer mainstream rock jasje verpakt? Ze krijgen geen 1 ster, omdat wat het doel is van dit album, experimentele lange rocknummers, precies is wat het album is. Het klinkt als iets van een andere planeet en ik kan me voorstellen dat met genoeg LSD dit fucking vet is. Helaas heb ik 1001 albums uitstaan in het weekend en ben ik niet zeker dat mn werkgever het zou waarderen als ik een zegeltje neem bij de koffieautomaat. Jezus christus, Peking O is dan weer echt complete onzin. 11 minuten waarin eigenlijk gewoon niets gebeurd. Nee sorry, dan verdien je 1 ster. Je neemt je muziek niet serieus, ik voel me ook totaal niet serieus genomen en weiger nog een seconde langer te luisteren naar deze onzin. Stik er in. Dit is oprecht het eerste album dat ik niet heb afgeluisterd, het is de veralbumificatie van 'dit had een e-mail kunnen zijn' en ik irriteer me daar ontzettend aan. Misschien zit er een goed album in van 3 kwartier ofzo, maar op dit moment voelt het echt als verspilling van mn tijd. FAVO:
This was terrible. Track 5 was horrendous. And then the follow up was even worse. So many reviews on here saying this is the best album they’ve ever heard… your desire to be pretentious and obscure is deafening. Coming from somebody who tends to appreciate a lot of experimental art pieces.
Couldn't get through any song without fast forwarding.
Dudes took too much LSD recording this album
Mental.
This album consists basically of long-form tracks that only loosely qualify as songs and instead serve as jumping-off points for a lot of barely-structured jamming. The improvisation here never rises to the level of compelling listening. Gets increasingly ridiculous as it progresses, which is remarkable considering its haphazard start. Sound quality is equally cruddy, with brittle-sounding guitars and poorly-miked drums.
Ugh, I realty wanted to like this and there were some parts in the beginning that I was really grooving with. Then it descended into just unlistenable psychedelic experimentation noises and that was it.
This was not what I was expecting. When I saw how long the songs were, I expected this to be jazz, but it was definitely not jazz. I don’t even know what to call this except weird. It was very experimental and got weirder and weirder as it went on. I was going to give it 2 stars until I got to the second to last song where it went off the rails.
Had to skip Paperhouse and Mushroom. I can't stand the whispering. Fun with misophonia! This was...weird. There were a few spots where I bopped my head along with the music. There were more spots where I was just confused. Am I being pranked? Overall, it was deeply unsettling. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): I guess Oh Yeah wasn't horrible
the three 10+ minute songs in a row are how i know the drugs were shit and they didn't have enough movies or video games back then.
There were so many unpleasant noises in here, including but not limited to screechy violin. "Aumgn" was kind of spooky (positive). 1.5
This album sounds like the Ross Geller Experience meets Pink Floyd, and it sucks. This is the worst album that I've rec'd so far, and I've already had Throbbing Gristle. 1 lousy star and I'd give it way less if I could.
Had to skip Paperhouse and Mushroom. I can't stand the whispering. Fun with misophonia! This was...weird. There were a few spots where I bopped my head along with the music. There were more spots where I was just confused. Am I being pranked? Overall, it was deeply unsettling. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): I guess Oh Yeah wasn't horrible
Noisy crap
This is one of the worst albums I've heard on here, I at one point was laughing at one of the songs because it sounded so stupid! I just couldn't get into it and I will never listen to it again!
Worst experience ever
Too long and just painful
This would have been a 3, then a 2 now it’s a 1 sorry wtf is this
it has some good samole opportunitues on it, but that 17 min tune killed it off
Meh
Started out promising then divulged into random notes being smashed on every instrument and the singer turning into Donnie from the Wild Thronberrys which did you fucking know that was Flea?! These psychedelic acid experimental rock groups from the 60/70s are always the same. It starts off kind of nice and then the drugs kick in and it all goes to shit while you know they thought they were creating the next gospel. 2/10
One thing this list has taught me, is that I really don’t like psych rock. This album isn’t the worst of the psych rock picks though, but it tries its damndest at one point to do so. Fortunately my phone decided to briefly lock up and restarted all the apps. Since that caused Spotify to stop playing, I accepted it as a sign to move one, and so I did.
Nup
I don't even know what this was, started out alright an descended into some weird psychedelic screeching which wasn't for me.
1/5
I admire its inventiveness and wild experimentation for its time, and I can absolutely see why it’s on this list. But I do not want to listen to it ever again. Paperhouse (6/10) Mushroom (4/10) Oh Yeah (4/10) Halleluhwah (5/10) Aumgn (5/10) Peking O (2/10) Bring Me Coffee or Tea (6/10) 4.5/10
What a tremendous waste of time
Just noise with no redeeming features. I don't think this was supposed to be listened to by sober people. I don't actively hate it like some of my ⭐ reviews, but I don't see why this is a thing, or why anyone felt it was necessary for me to hear it.
Another album of yelling and random noises
Way too experimental for me. Skipped half the songs halfway to 3/4 if the way through
хрень
when I started this project I was expecting to listen to black sabbath deep cuts. not haunted house ambient noises.
Glad they were able to experiment. Also happy that others enjoyed this. I absolutely did not. 1/5
The album started out pretty good. Some of the tracks sounded much newer than what I'd expect from a 1971 album -- "Mushroom" and "Oh Yeah" sound like mid-stage Radiohead. But then you hit an 18-minute track "Hallelujah" which is so jammy and endless, and then Augmn is even worse. The whole back half of the album is pretty much unlistenable.
We have Led Zeppelin at home
Finally done with krautrock. I'm in full agreement with my group members. The first 3 or 4 tracks were tolerable, and reinforced my belief that there is nothing cohesive about the alleged genre. Then things went completely off the rails. Take out "Aumgn" and "Peking O" and it's a tolerable 3-star album.
It’s albums like this that reinforce that music critics largely don’t know what the hell they are talking about. Through the first LP, they were hovering in the JBZ, likely a 3. But then LP 2 rolled in with Aumgn and Can promptly took a shite on my ears. What terrible nonsense!
Started off promisingly, then disappeared up it's own backside 4 tracks in..
This album goes from not horrible to worse than awful as it moves from song to song. Simply a bad idea, so 1 star or F.
honest question: what the actual hell was this? it started good but THEN, those two scary songs came up and i was like "yeah, no way, man". also, the ending was so boring, nothing really made sense and i feel like its an album you literally cannot listen in any occasion! i dont have any favorite songs, for real
I am really losing my patience for all this psychedelic bullshit. I bet this record would have been mind blowing if I was a 14 year old kid smoking weed out of a bong for the first time, but I ain’t that. I really struggled to find any enjoyment at all here. In the words of AJJ: “simply lyrics and boring riffs, every choice is so obvious” I guess some songs had some pretty technically impressive drumming, but that combined with a whole bunch of weird bullshit was hardly enough to overcome just how dreadfully bored I was throughout the entire listening session of this album. 1*
Can? More like Cannot. As in I cannot listen to that shit.
Not a chance
Weird experimental shit. Terrible
1971 and I'm just now hearing about these guys? It's remastered no less and a few songs have over 3M listens. I quickly figured out why I'd never heard of them. Why did 3M people listen to this? That's the question that needs to be answered. It's garage music gibberish with no direction, weak ass vocals, ridiculously repetitive with zero groove. The last 3 songs are pure junk. There's no way this was influential, it certainly wasn't a hit, there's no radio songs and I've never heard anyone mention they know the band or to check them out until today. I didn't hate it but I sure didn't need to spend an hour listening to it. 1 star, thanks for trying!
What an epically long shit.
Arhgg det er for avant-garde til mig
Bad
Not a fan of this. These long tracks kill me. Most of them are just not interesting enough to be so long. It works as background music a bit and I can tell they’re having fun jamming out but it’s just not my thing.
It’s taken me 3 days to get through this and it’s still not over
If the objective of this album was to piss me the fuck off, consider it a smashing success.
1 stern
I couldn't hang with this. There's not enough composition to get into. Obvious talent though, especially in the rhythm section.
1. paper - 1 2. muzhroom - 0 3. yeah - 1 4. haleluyah - 1 5. augemn - 0 6. peking - 0 7. tea - 1
psychobabble but not in the fun to listen to way
Whenever I read a Bio that starts with "Experimental German rock..." I cringe. In the spirit of 1001, I gave it a go and rest my case. Although, I would be mad at a cover of Halleluwah done by Sublime, perhaps....
I just can't
Not at all what I expected from the art, name, or this list in general. This was terrible. Now unfortunately for this band, they happened to pop up on my list after 2 nostalgic bangers from the 90s, but I don't think anything could have saved this from a 1 star. It started off "okay". I thought maybe I've heard of one song from this band and that will be fun. Nope. At least not from this album and likely not from anything else. First 3 songs were tolerable, then it went into 18, 17, 12 minute long annoying trash. I even convinced myself they called themselves Can because the drums sound like a trash can. If that winds up being true then they can keep the 1 star for irony, otherwise it goes to "Aumgn" because I may be able to use that on my Halloween playlist. It will either scare people or keep them away, both would be great. I'm also not a fan of vocals where I can't tell the language. Some songs sound half English then maybe half French? But I thought I saw they were German? Not my thing, Favorite track "Oh Yeah" 1/5 Anyways
2/10
Experimental 70's crap... 😏 No thank you
Couldn’t get into this album. The one bright spot was ‘Oh Yeah’.
Nur schräg!
yeah nah
Experimental but baaad.
This album got really fucking weird in the back half. Just post-modern, weird crap. Not sure why it's here. 1*
Not my thing
That's not my taste in music. Strange
Better suited for background ambience than focused listening. Album is too slow for me. More pace needed. Also it gets a bit too weird for me in the last couple of songs.
En vaan tykkää krautrockista. Genren nimellä vaan annetaan oikeus hakata esineitä ja nauhoittaa se.
Oire: he kokeilevat kaikkea maan ja taivaan väliltä, mutta parhaalta kuulostavat geneerisimmät blues-osuudet.
Hot trash.
Psychedelica The authors happy space
Meh
I didn't enjoy it.
I would give zero if I could. What in the world was that.
Yeah, no. No clue what the heck that was.
This got more and more weird (in a bad way) with each new track. I thought it would peak with the 18 minute middle track, but later tracks included what I can only describe as Pingu noises. I don't understand how people can create something like this while taking themselves seriously. Like surely they knew it was trash while recording? I'd be embarrassed to perform this in front of people
I feel like E.T. made this album. WTF?
THIS. IS. NOT. MUSIC.... Anything that starts with "experimental" is usually garbage....which is true here as well! You can't just play random noises over random mumbling, drums, and abused synthesizers and call it music. This literally made me angry, and gave me a headache. Aumgn sounds like zombies in space. Whoever put this on this list is an absolute moron. Favourite songs: Halleluhwah Least favourite songs: Aumgn, Peking O 1/5
Dreary Dirge
The type of music I imagine Radiohead listen to whilst disappearing up their own arseholes
unpleasant