Reviews (page 7 of 8)
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
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
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
Ok so this was actually terrifying. It is mid day and I am scared listening to this honestly. The songs were so so long and just sounded like screaming. They were like noises in a movie continuously going for 12 minutes. Did not like this at all.
Can't. Wanking over one chord for 18 minutes is uninspired, directionless, and unimaginative dreck. Not to even mention the unmusical halloween horror show of the last half. Fans of VU will probably love it tho. 1/10 1 star
Sorry. Influential it may be but Pink Floyd meets art school improv group is not my thing. Sounds like an acid trip and maybe that's what you need to enjoy it. Not for me
Different kind of alternative band. Strange sound.
No The first few songs were okay, I guess. Sort of got a grove that was tolerable. Then they start getting to 15+ minute songs that are terrible. I can't fathom how people think this is even listenable, let alone good.
No
Great work, I'm sure they did their best
why does every album this guy pick sound like this i promise you no song needs to be that long, nothing interesting going to happen at the 7 minute mark that hasn’t already happened at minute 2 bud, at least for this type of music, evil pink floyd gremlin
Pre-listening: ohhhh I’m gonna hate this sorry. Based on the reviews I just know. 1 hr 13 mins for like 7 songs never bodes well for me. Post/during listening thoughts: yeah I hate psychedelic rock. Like cannot stand it. It feels aimless and bores me and often is experimental. People tend to praise experimental music just for being experimental when in fact the experiment was a failure and bad. And that’s how I feel about this album. 1/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: no I hate krautrock. Fav tracks: paperhouse I GUESS Least fav tracks: mushroom (where are the rest of the instruments), halleluhwah (18 mins is too long), aumgn (nuff said), Peking o, bring me coffee or tea
Mushroom
Awful
The album art is dumb, like a can of spaghetti-os. This got increasingly unnerving to the point where it became a 1 star. Sorry, but eerie wailing during my music at work is not what I'm looking for on a Monday morning. I turned it off 15 minutes into track 5. I'm good never hearing this one before I die.
0*
3 songs in and it's awful. Not a fan.
I couldn’t make myself finish this one.
Nicht meine Richtung
1.5 not good
Yucky
I assume the inclusion of this album was a typo.
Umm. No thank you!
Maybe I wasn't in the mood for it, but it really didn't hit at all.
Bring your own drugs.
I hated this. Not quite as much as Kraftwerk though…
A very eclectic album, and not one I enjoyed. The first half wasn’t bad but the vocals were terrible, just overridden by everything else. Took me twenty minutes to even realize they were speaking another language because it was all so muddy. I think it would’ve been better as an instrumental. But the second half was just bad, with a song that sounded straight out of a generic “Spooky Songs to Play at Halloween” album.
Paperhouse was a decent track to start with. I enjoyed it. The only problem i had was with the vocal levels. It felt like i could hardly hear the vocals. You whacked the volume up and the music would be too loud. Felt like the mixing was a bit off on the track as a result. The following tracks - mushroom and oh yeah were OK too. Then it kind of went off the boil after halleluwah. Aumgn was atrocious and unnecessary. It was offensive to my ears. A complete waste of time infact. Every single track on the album after that was the same. I would have kept tracks 1-4 and dumped the rest. It should just stop right there. I may just delete tracks 5-7 and pretend they never existed. I see people here saying its ahead of its time etc. But that doesnt mean its good. This kind of stuff could easily be released as a demo or B-sides album. A decent album was ruined in my opinion.
Do people actually like this? I don’t. If I could make a request, please no more CAN. So far I’ve heard two of their albums, which is approximately three too many.
Like a child trying to play their first guitar. Basic and repetitive until it has weird bits then back to basic and repetitive.
Not my thing. I tried, I really did but nope.
This wasn’t terrible, until it was. That 17 minute track near the end can do one. Just no.
Psychedelic rock.
Decently enjoyable until it went off the rails
They seriously just took some instruments and made random noise with them and then said a bunch of gibberish and nonsense then recorded it and called it music. Then someone said this album is good enough to be listened to and published it. Even worse, it was put on this list. 1 star and if I could give less I would.
You know when you've been tangoed Cus it's shit,
Odd
Can't
Had never heard of this album and never hope to again. No idea what I was listening to.
Never heard anything by this artist before. Sounds like Eddie Murphy's Buckwheat's new electronica band. Now with more backward masking! The music hit a couple of grooves but the entire thing just unspools by the end. "When I saw Mushroom Head"
So not my type of music.
I already knew this was trouble when I saw 10 songs and 2 hours. After coming off the high of great concert on Saturday, we get whatever this was suppose to be, on a Monday and destroying any music mojo from the weekend. Thanks a fuggen lot Mr. Magoo. First several minutes, I though this my by alright, but boy was I wrong. This thing got worse with each passing minute. I'm confident this was to test my "don't quit until you hear the entire album" mantra. Tested, passed an will not attempt to give a 2nd listen. Guess that's the best thing I can say about this album. Stick with the cartoons Magoo.
Started off with some interesting musical choices, not really for me but I could see how it would have its merits. But as the songs got longer I just got inpatient, far too indulgent.
Not good at all. Strange.
Did someone say there were melodies on this album? Must have blinked and missed them. I like my music to sooth, entertain and grab my attention (amongst a lot of other things) This is just a mishmash of random noise and impossible to listen too. 1/5 8/5/24
I do like a bit of early 70s jazz fusion nonsense, George Duke, Santana, Zappa, etc. Not like this. This is just horrible on the ears and goes nowhere, I'm all for free experimentation but let's have some kind of a result lads.
What was that. Listened to it but can not tell you what I heard except noise.
Te wacky, t begon echt wel nice, maar ik kan niet voorbij de gekke shit komen na de helft. 1
Curious little album. 1/5
Awful
Had potentie maar te trippy
For someone like me that barely hears lyrics (I do hear vocals) unless I really concentrate, I feel like the foreign language does not harm my ability to appreciate the music. OK... I tried to give it a chance. It started out OK but quickly went to a place that I could not follow. Sorry Can. You're just not for me. Track by track: 1 - I like it. Interesting build up. I don't know if I could listen to an entire album like this. 2 - OK... we've stayed on the same vibe. Vocals are so subdued until they are not. They almost remind me of Trent Reznor a bit how he will use vastly different volumes and tones in vocals. 3 - For some reason this has more of a Lynyrd Skynyrd vibe than the previous two tracks which felt a bit more progressive and timeless. 4 - Couldn't help but notice the run time. Well, I used to listen to a lot of Jam Bands so this could be right up my alley. I'll check back in at the half-way point. A little past the halfway point... I am just kinda hanging out jamming along. I don't hate it and I don't love it. A few minutes left of the song and its getting intense and making me a bit anxious. This song is AMBITIOUS but I didn't ever feel the need to get out except that one point possibly. 5 - 1/3rd of the way in and I don't like this at all. It is way too experimental for me. I'll brave it out but my goodness they are asking a lot of us. Oh... I just got to the drum circle section of this song. Funny! 6 - Dude. What the hell. This feels like a troll. 7 - OK this is fine (especially after that last track).
# 140 : Really? Over 1 hour of bashing on a toy drum! Totally Bad
Largely nonsense to my ears
I know this is a classic, but maybe I just wasn't in the mood.
garbage
"Tago Mago" - Ein Schatten über Czukays Glanz Als großer Bewunderer von Holger Czukay fällt es mir schwer die Enttäuschung über "Tago Mago" zu verbergen. Während ich mich dafür einsetze, Czukays innovativen Bassmelodien und seinen kreativen Beitrag zur experimentellen Musik zu würdigen, kann ich nicht darüber hinwegtäuschen, dass dieses Werk an keiner Stelle seinen üblichen Glanz widerspiegelt. Czukays gewohnte Präzision und rhythmische Brillanz gehen bereits im Klanggewirr der ersten Tracks unter. Und es wird nicht besser. Die Hörerzahlen bei Spotify geben schnell zu erkennen, dass das Album nicht nur mich mit jeder weiteren Minute mehr verliert. Track für Track werden Czukays beispiellosen Fähigkeiten am Bass immer mehr Opfer der übermäßigen Experimentierfreude seiner Bandfreunde. Insgesamt vermisse ich auf "Tago Mago" die subtile Genialität und die klare Ausdruckskraft, die ich mit Holger Czukays musikalischer Handschrift verbinde. Dieses Album mag für Liebhaber extrem experimenteller Musik ansprechend sein, doch für jene, die sich nach der meisterhaften Bassarbeit sehnen, die Czukay so einzigartig macht, könnte dieses Werk enttäuschend sein. Erst in den Mid-70s und dem Wechsel zu "Harvest Records" lernen wir den "echten" Holger kennen. Hoffentlich kommt mehr von Cans späteren Werken *hust*. "Tago Mago" hat es kurzzeitig in die deutschen Album-Charts geschafft. Ich frage mich warum.. Wer sich ca. 18 Minuten durch "Halleluhwah" oder "Aumgn" gequält hat, sollte eine Entschädigung erhalten. "Die Hälfte aller Probleme in unserem Leben sind darauf zurückzuführen, dass man zu schnell Ja und nicht früh genug Nein gesagt hat." - Josh Billing Hätte ich mal schneller Nein gesagt, nun ist mein Dienstag vormittag und meine Laune futsch. LG
- Paperhouse war ein entspannter und starker Einstieg in das Album - Im Anschluss ging es dann bergab: Mushroom, wie als hätte ich einen schlechten Trip von dem Zeug, hat mich dann direkt ziemlich gedownt - Oh Yeah war nochmal ein kleiner Lichtblick - mit Halleluhwah und AUUmgn begann dann der endgültige Abstieg. Viel zu lange Songs, die es auch nicht geschafft haben einen abzuholen - liegt es an mir, oder sind lange Tracks selten gut? Aumgn ging mir wirklich auf die Nerven und auch Peking O hätte man sich wirklich sparen können Rating: 0,5 -1 / 5
Not a fan.
Too spooky
Spaced out hippies making noises? No ta.
It is fucking terrible
couldn't even finish this.
Volvemos a los bodrios.
this is a looooooooooong one. lets see if its a vibe. what is this wacky ass album. the noises are genuinely out of control. wtf tbh. peking o got even weirder... FINALLY MADE IT THROUGH SHEEEEEEESH
This is terrible 1/5
I tried. I can't.
groovy
Confusing -- why is this album on this list?
Weird
Not about to listen to krautrock
1971 Some songs are smooth listening, others are just clanging and banging of drums or weird sound sequences sustained for long periods of time. Not enjoyable.
demencial en el peor sentido de la palabra
What the hell was that?
Some ok stuff and a whole lot of the worst kind of psychedelica. I'm here to listen to music, not what amounts to 30 minutes of house creaking
To be fair, the first 4 tracks were interesting. I must not be smart enough to understand this music.
some good, but then some weird jam band noise vibes
Yeah, not my cuppa tea.
A pretty oddball album by Can. Which is an equally dumb numb for a band. I just couldn’t find the good parts of this album. It was hard to listen to and harder to understand. Wasn’t the worst thing on this list but it won’t be revisited anytime soon. 3.4/10
I think the band had a stroke halfway through this album
Not my jam.
Experimenting with music is good, but sometimes experiments fail. From the first few tracks I already disliked the record, but then I was attacked by a 17-minute clattering session, followed by another 20 minutes or so of unbearable music. Hard pass.
Just wasn't interested in sitting through this.
Mijn ratings zijn gemiddeld wat laag. Moet ik milder zijn? is de vraag. Maar het ligt niet aan mijn beoordeling. Nu krijg ik weer zo'n geluidenverzameling.
I hated everything fuckin' single second of this embarrassing record. A total disgrace.
Het begin viel mee. Maar het wordt al snel een onluisterbare chaos.
I have no idea how someone listens to this and says 5 stars. I was hanging in okay through the first 4 tracks. Didn't like it, but it was just slightly excessive in experimental/psychedelic. And then unfortunately Aumgn and Peking O. showed up. No part of that is actually enjoyable to listen to a second time. Unexpected on the first, but no reason to go back. Ugh.
Begint wel aardig, maar wordt op een gegeven moment een hoop random geluiden, bijvoorbeeld Aumgn
Wth
mes voisins vont me faire envoyer à l'asile je pense (que quelqu'un vienne en aide aux artistes allemands)
Lame
Good God this is torture. It's taken days to power through this, and it's yet to be enjoyable. Just noise for 74 minutes.
The first song was decent. Then came an insane screach and the album came crashing down. Aumgn is one of the worst songs I've ever heard. Peking O is awful terrible. It is just random noises and random keyboard shit. Makes you think who allowed this to happen. The only compliment I can give to this album is that is isn't as terrible as Throbbing Gristle's third album! I HATE YOU 0/10
Comienza bien, psicodélico y extraño. Paperhouse y Oh Yeah son las más rescatables porque lo demás es demasiado artístico para mi gusto, por no decir que son una sarta de gritos y ruidos inconexos. Para colmo, tiene 2 canciones de este tipo de 17 y 18 minutos respectivamente.
Getting all the way through this album requires ... grit. The first six tracks are very weird and non-melodic but you feel like, ok, this is cool even if it's pretty hard to listen to. You probably need to be stoned out of your mind to appreciate it, and even then you'd prefer to listen to something more ... musical. But ok. The track seven comes and it's just absolutely horrendous noise - l it's a really bad trip and your drugs were laced with poison. I mean I'm sure these guys were technically good but this is just too much! I emerged a little shaken, glad I survived. I won't be listening to this one ever again if I can help it.
not a fan
Rubbish - mad 1970s hippy jamming, poorly execufed.
A very weird album. I had never heard of the album before and I do not think I have heard of the band either. I have no idea why this album is on the list. It is not really rock and roll, punk, or psychedelic rock at least how I describe those genres. There was really no reason to listen to it to begin with and no reason to revisit it.
Ok this sounds like that kind of music which you are forced to hear when the CIA is interrogating you while you're on LSD. I do have to say, it's weirdly charming. I was at Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets tour and while I was sitting, I saw some old people dancing through the entire concert. Like they're high as a kite. This is what they listen to when they're not listening to Pink Floyd. I retract this statement. It's still shit, I'm getting real tired of it by Halleluwah. It's hot garbage actually, that this shit is on the list of 1001 albums and Weezer's blue album isn't, is a fucking disgrace. On one hand, you have one of the greatest albums of the 90's, probably even the greatest power pop album ever made, and on the other one what I imagine sounds like what it is like to have a stroke while on LSD and ketamine while being on the train station. It's so bad, it's funny, BUT IT'S 1 HOUR LONG JESUS CHRIST AAUUUUUUMMMGGGNNNNN AAAAAAUUUUUUUMMMMMMGGNNN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaAAaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM was the lyric that hit the hardest doe. So deep... It could actually be good if they'd drop the avant garde. I'M FINALLY DONE WITH IT!!! FUCK THIS ALBUM 1/5