Wonderful Rainbow

Опять залупа какая то

This is the sort of music that I'd imagine a moody, "you don't get me, mom!" teenage son would play obnoxiously loud in a 2000s movie, in the basement, just to be as annoying as possible, because he's so gosh-darn angry over nothing of note! Suffice to say, this album is irritating, stupid, pretentious and unlistenable. It sounds like watching someone having a severe manic episode, while someone hyperventilates and wheezes next to your ears, and also there's an air raid siren going off.

Valehtelematta ensimmäinen albumi mitä en yksinkertaisesti voinut kuunnella loppuun 0:5

I really wanted to give this a fair chance, and was kind of into parts of it at first, but it very quickly got on my nerves. If this is their "most accessible" album, I'm afraid of their other music. Favorite Song: Dracula Mountain

Awful

I'm sorry... is this a kind of joke? It's just the noise from your neighbor, who's renovating his apartment.

Just loud, abrasive noise. I love electronic music and lots of people say it’s just noise. I hear the beauty and structure in it. I’m sure someone hears the beauty and structure in this, but to me it’s just noise.

Musical runoff. It's as if all the unused music, notes, and sounds from better albums were compressing into their own horrible album.

There is a lot of discourse about certain artists being overrepresented on this list. Neil Young, Paul Simon, Elvis Costello among others. I agree but I think it's because there are some major oversights of class albums on this list. Weezer Blue Album comes to mind. But I believe some people's argument is that when you have crappy early 80s Paul Simon you are missing out on something interesting and unique to present to the people. Well, if this is the sort of thing that there would be more of on this list, bring on more Neil Young!

My friend and I made an album that sounded like this... in sixth grade. I didn't know we were trendsetters.

Noise. Sorry but it was a difficult listen

Noise rock and experimental punk built from distorted bass, pummeling drums, and feral vocals feels like being locked inside a washing machine full of fireworks while someone repeatedly turns the spin cycle higher—relentless, chaotic, and for me more punishing than exhilarating. The album's refusal to offer contrast or breathing room turns excitement into fatigue very fast. What some might hear as liberating noise, I only hear as exhausting sensory overload.

No....just no

Nope

Not for me, man. A repetitive cacophony of bass, drums, and the muffled incoherent bleat of vocals. I wouldn't consider it completely devoid of artistic merit, but "a truly challenging listening experience" ain't wrong.

Complete shit load of noise throughout

No thanks. You can put the word 'rock' after 'Noise', but it doesn't take out the part where it's largely just noise.

There is some good noise in the cacophony of noise on this album but you have to listen really really hard for it and I just can't be bothered.

Noise

tönt wie andere alben auf doppelter geschwindigkeit - furchtbar!

Not for me

Nope

Mi fa tipo stra cagare

This one is supposed to be a very challenging listen, so we'll see how it goes. I might not actually do a track-by-track commentary. I have to say that the suggested classification of "noise rock" is not promising, especially since *Wonderful Rainbow* is referred to as Lightning Bolt's most accessible album. We'll see. Right up front. First track. *Hello Morning*. I can see how this is going to go. It's going to go with pain and suffering and regret. A pile of electric guitars thrown into a random stack with some kick drum, large amounts of distortion and feedback. Oh yeah, 56 seconds of that is exactly what I needed to get into the right headspace. Thanks guys. I appreciate it. Track Two, *Assassins*. I have never wanted to pull an Oedipus Rex on myself, except using the ears rather than the eyes, more than I do right now. At least I don't have to complain about the lyrics, because while there is some incomprehensible stuff shouted through a really bad loudspeaker in the back, there's absolutely no chance of making out what it actually is saying. Normally, this is where I would point to some excellent instrumentalist work, but the only person putting in any effort at this point is the drummer, who is just going off and doing his own thing, which in fairness is kind of what I wish I could do right now. The rest is repetitive upwards arpeggio, and not a very good one. We've made it all the way out to *Dracula Mountain*, and I have to ask, what the fuck is this shit? I think I've figured out their play, and I'm not excited about going through another seven tracks of it. Basically, they grab a relatively simplistic melody, play it over and over and over and over and over with a gross amount of distortion on it. Maybe at some point, they drop out the background and have the guitar riff on that for about five seconds, and then go back to just layering completely messy garbage while playing the same riff over and over and over and over and over again. That's it. That's their compositional style. Oh yes, and have somebody incoherently yelling into a loudspeaker, which itself is ridiculously distorted at some point. If that's the entirety of this album, the music industry and I are going to have some words. We've fetched up at the bottom of *Two Towers*, and I'm not sure how much more of this I can take. It's seriously seven minutes and nine seconds of the band playing two different riffs over and over again, only speeding up a bit in the last couple of minutes of the song. There was a good four-second section about 40 seconds in that I thought they were going to do something interesting and establish a baseline. I was curious as to where they were going, and then they went the exact same place over and over and over again. I'm not pretentious enough to say that this shouldn't be called music, but I am pretentious enough to say that if you paid money for this experience, perhaps hiring a dominatrix would be more satisfying for your masochistic urges. *On Fire* almost is a song. It does have some dynamism, which none of the preceding four tracks had even a hint of, so it has that going for it. There's a little bit of progression. There's a little bit of something adjacent to a melody. It's not a real melody, but it can see one from where it's standing. Lightning Bolt can't maintain it, and they revert to their old ways three quarters of the way through a 4-minute, 43-second song. That's disappointing performance no matter what you're doing. The thing that pisses me off here is I can see flashes of near competency for a couple of chord changes or 15 seconds of drumming, but it's like they catch themselves and have to fuck it up aggressively to keep their street cred. It's agonizing. At this point, I wish I could make incomprehensible noises through a loudspeaker into this review, just like the lead singer of Lightning Bolt, because *Crown of Storms* engenders that kind of response. Great, awesome title. You had my attention. It almost has some dynamism, like *On Fire*. Somewhere in the middle it shifts a bit and we get incomprehensible drunken loudspeaker noises being used as more of a tone wash and melodic component, which I didn't expect, but that doesn't make it good. I'm pretty sure that we are just listening to the guitarist run through his "Learn to Play Guitar in 30 Days" exercises during the recording. That someone got paid during any part of the production of this album so far should be a violation of the United Nations directive against inhumane treatment. I have a sad admission to make. The rest of this album has been so absolutely terrible that *Longstockings* was my favorite track. It starts out pretty decent. It's a short riff, but it'll work. We've got a lot of distortion. It's not cycling quite as hard, and the drums come in at an appropriate time to help shake things up. Make things lively. Even the incoherent mumbling/ranting on the loudhailer is almost charming, given the relative cleanness of the rest of the song. I was even starting to get into it, but then they hit the two-thirds of the way mark, and it literally descends into ridiculous cacophony with all the instruments just being beaten and the vocalist screaming incoherently. Then finally it all collapses into nothing but screeching feedback at the end. It's like they showed that they could perform music, and then just when you took a step closer to the stage to listen to it, they whipped out their dicks and pissed right in your face, which may have been their intention in putting this song together. I'm starting to think it might have been. I hate this. I hate it here. Finally, we get to the title drop of the album *Wonderful Rainbow*. You know what? This doesn't entirely suck. Is it repetitive and uncreative? Oh yeah, absolutely. Is it still sounding like the guitarist is going through his pick exercises and not actually trying to play music? Absolutely, no question. Is the lyricist making nonsensical baby noises into the loudspeaker in the background? Perversely, yes. But the guitar isn't heavily distorted. It's actually a reasonably clean acoustic, and there's this sort of dreamy wash reverb happening on the guitar part. Honestly, get rid of the vocalist, probably by setting them on fire and laughing as they burn to death, and this might be a good fragment of a song. A seed, a starting place. We'll get back to this idea later. Is it good? Oh, fuck no. Is it good for this album? It's the best we've got so far. I get it. *30,000 Monkies*. I get it. You are literally trying to embody the idea that 30,000 monkeys banging on 3,000 typewriters for an infinite amount of time would turn out the entire works of Shakespeare and every other piece of creative art ever created in the history of mankind, seen from the perspective of the end of the universe and heat death. That's exactly what you manifested by just banging on your instruments with no rhyme or reason for three minutes and 50 seconds. An endless cacophony that's only punctuated in the middle by an accidental return to the guitarist not being able to be that fully incoherent for that long and returning to his pick exercises. Everyone involved with this should not just be painfully executed, but we should find out their producers and torture them until we find out where they hid the money. Their screams would still be better than this track. You know what? I was wrong. *Duel in the Deep* is my favorite track off of this album, mainly because I don't entirely hate it. Does it do exactly the same thing as every other track? Sure. The guitarist is playing the same riff over and over again. They've got a wash of distortion and reverb. It's mercifully mostly free from shouting through the loudhailer, so it's got that going for it. The thing that sets it apart from the other tracks is that it feels like it's going somewhere. It doesn't actually; it's an illusion. But because of the way that the background elements are washing through, it feels like there's a certain amount of kinesis, that there is some dynamism, that things are changing and evolving. It's not real. The song goes on for way longer than it has to, and that's only partly because the last minute and a half is just distortion and screaming feedback. Look, I love punk music. I've seen punk bands live. I've listened to a ton of punk bands, and the one thing they have in common is that even though they are totally about the DIY and instrumentality is not the first thing on their minds, and that they love screaming into a microphone, they would look down on Lightning Bolt as not good enough musicians to be a punk band. Not even that annoying high school punk band that was trying so hard to be edgy in mom's garage. Those guys would turn their nose in the air at these sad, pathetic excuses for musicians. The most frustrating thing about this album is that it feels as though each of the tracks could have been a real song. They are unfinished, incomplete, incoherent because someone didn't spend the time to make them whole. They needed editing, an actual melody, some crafting of the mix. You know, everything that shows that you care about your work and you want people to enjoy it. I won't go so far as to say this is anti-music, but I can say that the band members all need to be beaten severely until they can get themselves properly composed. Also, give that drummer a real job with a prog rock band, because I think he could handle it. He just needs to have somebody demand more of him. Jesus Christ, this was a trial.

Ouch

not my thing

Why did they put this on the list?

Makes jazz sound tuneful. Absolute shite. No stars.

bad. discordant noise. Art, not to be enjoyed.

You know the music they play in movies to show a character is super edgy? It's noise pollution at its finest. The bad-ness of this album is almost poetic. I know the whole point of this genre is to make a bunch of bullshit, but oh my gosh. I'll give it to them, though, it's interesting.

I never understand why good musicians gather together and refuse to make something coherent. Yeah yeah it's a fuck you to the 'industry', and you are cool because you are avante hard or whatever. Just don't make me listen to it.

This was fucking horrible. Jesus. I begged for this to end repeatedly. It just sounds like noise. Sometimes something kinda good would happen but then it would just keep going or get annoying. Yeah this sucks Songs with something good: "Dracula Mountain" , "2 Towers" , "Longstockings" , "Wonderful Rainbow"

This is actually the worst album I've listened to. Ever. There are clearly some instruments. There is sometimes rhythm. There is never melody. It's bad. So bad.

Noise Rock, 2003 -> 1

Got the just of it in about 30 seconds. Somehow there was 40 more minutes of it. Might be the worst one I've run into so far.

If you enjoy getting a headache… Cool cover though

1/5. Noise rock is not really my standard.

I get the whole experimental thing but is literally noise.

Eins og segir í lýsingu á Wikipedia: Noise rock, og a challenging listening experience...

Really? In 1001?

Even noise rock needs some simple things like structure and a touch of melody, both absent here. I checked to see if they have ever played at 2000 Trees, but seems not. They would fit well on the Cave Stage on a wet Friday afternoon. Enough said.

Not at all wonderful

A line has to be drawn somewhere. 1*

Repetative, loud and chaotic. You can barely hear the vocals so it just sounds like whailing. I'm sure it's someone's cup of tea, certainly not mine. But I can still appreciate it's existence

The Good: Lightning will only strike once in the same place!!! The Bad: This bolt just keeps on pounding us in the groin… The Ugly: Being mislead by the fucking rainbow… Okay, so noise is art, I guess. If one would want to start a fight, play this album. If one would want to get ready to rumble, play this album. If one would want to have a good time… forget you ever had to listen to this album… Thanks for wasting my time, Mr Dimery! 1*

Today I discovered an entire genre I didn't know I should avoid. The best thing about this album is the cover.

That sure was noise

I wouldn't say it's outrageous enough not to be boring.

Awful

My head almost exploded while my brain begged me for mercy.

No. Im having a bad run today.

Awful, just noise

I am now in my early 60s. I have experienced the loss of my parents. My friends are starting to drop, one by one, as if picked off by a sniper. I am coming to grips with my own mortality and giving serious thought to how I want to spend my remaining time on this planet. At no point in this process of reflection did it occur to me that I wanted to hear this fucking record.

oh my god. no no no.

WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK.

Yikes. I guess you might call it speed metal? I think for the average music fan this music is unlistenable. It has its place in a very small subculture which is fine but it hardly ranks among the very best. I’m over a third way down with this list that has been saddled with the horrors of mediocre electronic music, 90s Britpop, and raging indecipherable heavy metal.

So much noise 👎

Toegankelijk mijn voeten. Chaos waar ik nerveus van word.

Stresserend

Terrible - like Corey Feldman or Nick Jonas playing a “guitarsolo” for 40 minutes

DNF - trust me I get it and it’s great to push boundaries and I’m hear for noise rock, this just very much was not for me in the slightest, DNF’s are 1’s, sorry about that - I bet Jesse loved this album though xx

Oh no

The Wikipedia blurb says this is "noise rock". I don't know what classifies it as such but the noises they included made me wince and pause it several times. This was really bad and one of the few albums I had to force myself through and an experience I'm not happy to have had.

1/5

The sonic equivalent of a pneumatic drill - the "tool" is working exactly as intended, but that doesn't mean I want to listen to it for forty minutes. There is some degree of technical ability and structure in there - but is it worth looking for? Ultimately, no! One star. 1 "Hello Morning" (2/5) 2 "Assassins" (2/5) 3 "Dracula Mountain" (2/5) 4 "2 Towers" (1/5) 5 "On Fire" (1/5) 6 "Crown of Storms" (1/5) 7 "Longstockings" (1/5) 8 "Wonderful Rainbow" (2/5) 9 "30,000 Monkies" (1/5) 10 "Duel in the Deep" (1/5) Total - 14 Average - 1.4 293/1001 156/293 albums reviewed were new to me

No me gustó nada, muy metálico todo

Ah, so this is what noise rock is.

Ouch. My fucking ears.

I see the concept but I'm not going to pretend that I like it

Impossível

Bullshit

nope

This was not a necessary part of my day.

Noise

Anything but this.

This album was just annoying. Don't listen to it while you are relaxing. They sound more like a dead bolt.

Literally just noise ???

2/10 Do I consider this music rather than a random assortment of discordant sounds? It's heavy on the avant garde spectrum, but yes. Do I find this appealing music? Not even remotely. There's barely anything here to grasp on to or to draw me in - no real hooks or nice beats or anything. What I find interesting, however, is that the band so deliberately pushes the boundaries of what is music that it makes it clear that they know what they're doing, and they made this album intentionally, indicating that they could make something sonically appealing if they really wanted. Unfortunately, for me and how I listen to music this album is just not that great.

Fuck off. That’s literally just noise.

Fue como escuchar una obra en construcción

No

An overload of noise that separately some of which is not bad, but all together is just painful. 1/5

Støjrock. Meget distortion. Ikke rart at lytte til.

I am open-minded but skeptical.

Like getting a buzz saw drilled into my head. And for some reason it takes me 41 minutes until I can finally fucking die from the sheer trauma. Or maybe this is what meth feels like. After it's been laced. Cool album cover. Drums go hard at times. I have nothing else to say. Fave track: - Assassins

Garbage

This is not music, it is noise. Whoever is responsible for allowing this to be recorded and distributed should be punished. To say I hate it is not strong enough. If I could give negative stars I would.

Woof.

Pretty terrible : ((

This was awful. “Noise Rock” should have been the tell.

Life’s too short for me to listen to this

I think I have a headache.

I can just about see the attraction to a certain hardcore crowd, but ultimately it made me feel a bit sick, and that’s not what I’m after with music.

I'd call it a piece of shit, but I've definitely made more melodic sounds when taking a shit.

There is absolutely no reason why I need to listen to "Wonderful Rainbow" before I die.

Stop

Well, this was as advertised. Noise. There wasn't anything that felt like a melody or a beat that I could grab on to, just noise. Really not enjoyable.

Цей альбом суцільне божевілля і шум. Спочатку виглядає незвично і навіть цікаво, потім набридає, а в кінці дратує. Мені дуже шкода, бо це реально могло бути щось незвичне, але після 5 хвилини все перетворюється в шум

There was nothing remotely wonderful about this rainbow. rainbows are a pleasure to look at as opposed to this vomit of noise. I even listened to the whole thing to give it the benefit of the doubt. About three quarters of the way through the last song, I said "Fuck Off" out loud and switched it off. 1 star

The last song is the most interesting, but is it enough to push it from a 1 star rating to a 2? Absolutely not.

i want to give it 5 stars for balls but since i’m certainly never going to listen to it again it’s 1 star

Not a bit of me... didn't even finish the album.

Yep this was fucking shit no two ways of saying it

Thanks but no thanks.

not my thing

Unlistenable

Nope. Repetitive instrumental grating annoying noise. Nothing about this gave me any pleasure or evoked any emotion other than annoyance at having wasted my drive to work listening (tolerating) this. I will say the bass on at least a couple of tracks was notably interesting. But that doesn’t save this.

I made the mistake of starting this album on a drive on the LA freeway. I found myself completely deregulated, speeding, ready to yell at bad drivers. I had to turn it off and drive in silence for a while. I don’t get the appeal or significance of this album.

This is... not good.

yikes

I don't get it

I bought brand new AirPods Pro 3 last week and I’m upset this was one of the first few albums I listened to on them. What a waste.

jfc I hated every minute of this noise

I don’t understand

No.

What the fuck even was that?! No.

wieder mal experimental, also leider auch nichts für mich

According to Wikipedia, the actual 1001 Albums book describes this as "a truly challenging listening experience." I must admit, the book really called it on this one!

Rainbows are wonderful. God's promise. This, however, is not wonderful. It's not even okay. It's is everything I have come to despise about this list. Dude, if there wasn't 1,000 albums, make it 500. Make it 100. Enough with the garbage already. Third straight day with a one-star review.

Haaaaated this. This was painful from start to finish and I only persisted for completeness of this project.

Now this is weird one type of 'music' fitting the description of another. 50% of this album was a bunch of idiots mindlessly beating shit out of their instruments accompanied by tuneless vocal noises. The same description as thrash metal. But this isn't thrash metal.the other 50% of the album was "ooh, this is a decent riff, let's repeat it monotonously ad infinitum". There really isn't anything positive to say about this crap. 1 because there isn't a 0.

This is described as their most accessible album. I won’t be seeking out their other work, as this wasn’t very welcoming to me!

Usually would like this but seemed a bit too harsh. Couldn't get into it. I'm assuming for it's time this was groundbreaking but seems very similar to current day underground music

The only reason to listen to this album before you die is to remind you of how much better other albums are. I have heard bits of every type of riff and noise on this album in other people’s works and they are fine. However, making entire songs from these noises is not fine. It is painful. 1/5

I don’t think I get it.

Unlisteneable

Nah.

Not for me, there wete bits i could pick out that were ok, but mostly it was noise

hard listen is right, jesus this is noise at it's worst. I get what they were going for, but it's just noise.

Nope. Not for me.

Een cacofonie van willekeurige tonen. Verschrikkelijk een soort hardcore jazz

Bordering on what one could call music.

Awful noise :(

1.5

I usually like noise but i could not for the life of me be happier to be done listening to this. Overall very unpleasant listening experience ! 1/5.

This sounds like it was made by a 12-year-old boy who pulls the girl's hair in class to get attention They obviously set out to make a annoying, unlistenable, one star album. And they accomplish that. I kind of regret giving them The satisfaction of the rating that they wanted

It blows my mind, that this literal noise can be to any human's relaxation, or that anything good and not bad can come out of it. 0

1.5

I could appreciate it on some level, but no, I can’t handle it. 😂

Music or chaotic noise?

Gave me a headache

yeah this really wasn’t for me, if i had to pick a favourite it would be dracula mountain but my actual favourite part was when it was finished i fear

this is what a headache sounds like

this is the kind if music you would play to a torture victim to keep them awake 24/7, absolutely awful.

a lot of noise

Just noise?

Felt a bit like noise to me and just a lot of guitars and distortion.

Lightning Bolt put the *noise* in noise rock. This had fleeting moments of what they thought might be rock wedged into a bunch of hot shit garbage.

Single idea songs that drone on for 7min with no discernable structure are just not great. There are some decent ideas strewn throughout, but the need to play constant chaos and obliterate your senses is just not for me. I don't understand the appeal of this at all.

Noise or music ?

Ok, this is probably one of the worst albums I've ever listened to. And I've tried to like it but... there's just nothing to like here. Honestly, I can't find it. If that's about the beauty of the noise in music, there are better albums of noise, or that combine noise with other genres. It feels arbitrary, nonsense, extremely long and without any other purpose than just for the sake of making an album that is simply bad.

Yo me esfuerzo por escuchar más de dos canciones de estos discos pero me lo hacen muy difícil

Not what I wanted to hear right before a 4 hour lecture starting at 9 am

Música perfecta para los presos de Guantanamo (se sufre y mucho a tofo volumen y repetidas veces). Yo iría a verlos en directo a un garito del que se pueda escapar a las dos canciones??

Sometimes is better to be dead

To much noise

After the first song, which is less than a minute long, I thought "Wow this is not for me I do not like this and will not kike the rest of the album." Despite this I listened to two and a half more songs. And my thought did not change a single time. Sure this will go good in a mosh pit or maybe even a very crazy rave, but I do not mosh in the pit nor do I go crazy in raves. Long story short, I don't like this but I see the appeal and it never will appeal to me

Awful

This sound like a wonderful rainbow being destroyed by a wrecking ball.

Let's just read the books own description of this record: "A mix of sheer abuse and welcome diversity, for a truly challenging listening experience" Challenging is an understatement, I nearly turned it off after the first 50 seconds. There are elements of good music in there, but it's covered in chaos incarnate. "Noise Rock" is a genre I don't think I need in my life.

Why do you hate my ears???

Wow wow. I have a friend who likes this stuff and I just cannot understand why. I really tried to stay optimistic but when I can't turn the volume down low enough without muting it - that's a 1 star sign. Perhaps not listening with headphones is a better strategy. I fear this music went right into my bloodstream. Almost want to bump it up to a 2 star because reading the reviews while listening was such a treat. But alas, that wouldn't help my stats.

Ich hab mir ursprünglich mal Noise Canceling Kopfhörer gekauft, um solche Geräusche NICHT hören zu müssen.

Ist schon cool, dass so eine Mucke existiert und man hört z. B. bei Death from Above 1979 definitiv, dass die hiervon beeinflusst sind. Will auch nicht ausschließen, dass das mit mehrmaligem Hören noch wachsen könnte, aber mir war das gestern zu wenig Struktur und eine Art von Noise, mit der ich einfach nix anfangen kann.

Schwierig

Schade, dass der erste Krach auf dieser Liste bisher, nunja, einfach nur krach war. Teilweise hat es schon die Grenze der Unerträglichkeit überschritten, an anderen Stellen kann ich mir zumindest gut vorstellen, dass das zumindest Live gut funktionieren könnte. So an sich aber reicht es nicht für mehr.

Very frenetic, pretty hard to follow musically

"It is considered to be their most accessible album..." as per wikipedia but I couldn't even scale Dracula Mountain.

I must be getting old. I skipped every song on this album. It's not music, sorry. I can do this with my computers and probably make it sound better. This album is on this list as an example of something everyone needs to hear so they know what BAD/NON-EXISTENT music is. 1/5

Repetitive, high-school, ‘Ooh, I’m in a rock band’ utter shit.

Literal noise, wtf

Today I learned I do not enjoy whatever genre this is. Seriously it would start to sound like something then devolve rapidly into shit.

Noise garbage

Not my thing at all. I couldn't finish a single one of the songs.

Genre - Angry Noise I don't know who fought to have this album on the list - but what a hill to die on! Some of the guitar and drum riffs were pretty cool (especially in 'On Fire') but overall, no.

Perhaps it's just not for me, I'm sure some people like it. A very challenging listen.

Girl I’m scared

Too chaotic and off-beat for my taste

Only made it through 3 songs before my ears said "no more"

desgraça de barulho (2 towers é legalzinha tho)

Complete and utter garbage- just noise that makes you ask if the CD is skipping only to realize it’s not a CD.

herrie

Noise

I gave it an honest shot, but it was a very challenging album to get through, and I found myself hoping it would be over the entire time. there was some interesting musical ideas buried inside, but the album just isn’t my thing.

I've never listened to this album (45). Nope nope nope.

I thought I would like it from number one but I stopped after 3- just was noise

There are moods for this kind of music. Fortunately, I wasn't in one.

The best song during this listening experience was an ad that came up on youtube for PNC Bank

Honestly didnt really listen, not a fan of punk rock

1/5

Painful, dreadful slop

Made me consider giving up on listening to music altogether.

ABSOLUTELY TRASH 0/5

Jen’s Guantanamo Bay comment made me laugh so much. I’m not in Guantanamo but I am sitting in a major trauma ward with nutters and a lot of people screaming and crying so not dissimilar. And you’re not allowed in or out without security and there’s no bathroom visitors are allowed to use. Again - much like torture. This album in that environment is a different level of horror.

Nope

I absolutely hated this album. I tried to listen to it objectively, but it is just pure and utter nonsense. I would give it a 0 if I could. The only positive thing I can say about it is the album cover art is cool.

I was genuinely feeling on edge after several songs of this. Clearly talented musicians who are just doing entirely too much.

This album was a little bit too much - yes, the instrumentals had some potential, but there was just too much going on, regardless if the song had a lot of listens, or not. I think that this was overall very meh and didn't really enjoy having it in the background, but I guess maybe in certain circumstances, some people might find it entertaining.

A lot of noise, not much music

Absolute utter shit

Atroce

This is not Heavy music. Not even Punk. Most of the time it's just the sound of 4 independent instruments making their own thing. Longstockings is probably the only track I somewhat enjoyed. Trying to hard to be "different"? 1/10

10/10 cover zeg, heel vet gedaan! Dat was al het positieve. Wat een bagger, een noise rock album. Ik begrijp echt helemaal niets van Noise rock, of juist wel want ik vind het herrie. Het is rammen op een zwaar gedistorted gitaar, soms schreeuw je er nog in een distorted microfoon doorheen en als kers op de taart sla je op een drumstel, maar het liefste net niet helemaal in een maat of iets zodat de luisteraar niet per ongeluk kan meegenieten van de muziek. Nou ok, dan doe ik dat niet he? Is prima joh. Had toch al zin om mn dag te starten met een bak herrie van de bovenste plank. Is dit dan een heel goed noiserock album omdat ik het absolute herrie vind? Maar is het dan een goed album? Ik denk van niet. Had ik dit moeten horen voor ik dood ga? Mwah, ik wil hier eigenlijk wel dood van gaan. Ik denk dat de hell zo klinkt. Gewoon eindeloze repetities van dit album, met af en toe Vluchtstrook van Kriss Kross Amsterdam, om te zorgen dat je bij de les blijft.

A word of advice to every musician out there: never use feedback as an instrument.

No thanks.

Not for me.

Did not like.

Maybe someone would like this. I don't think I'd ever listen to this "noise band" again. Wiki calls this their most accessible record. Woof.

Very very bad

Not my jam

Omg why?!? I’m sure punk is good for some. But not me

Noise. :(

Gak! Not a fan.

C'était douloureux.

Noisy

God no. Unlistenable

Dracula Mountain

This might be the worst thing on the list. High bar

Distortion is not always necessary.

Noisy and annoying

Crap

Without question the lousiest album I've ever heard in my life. For me it confirms the utter uselessness of the music critics that rated this one high enough to make it onto this list.

Wikipedia’s said their music was challenging. Not wrong! Noise rock. Nope, no thank you.

Listening to this album has given me a new lease on life. It doesn’t matter how sad I feel, how badly things are going, I always know that I’ll never have to listen to this shit again. So how bad can things really be?

I would rather be hit by a real lightning Bolt.

Sounds like falling down stairs With Instruments.

Yeah, not for me. They call it art noise. It’s like Trout Mask Replica with more fuzz. First one i almost turned off.

Очень странная какафония звуков. Ни одна песня не понравилась.

Hard pass.

Wenn Du Adeline Nachbarn zur Weißglut bringen willst, spiele das Album 10 Minuten laut.

Inte alls min smak

Monotont oljud.

Weer zo'n op-de-klok-kijk-album: wanneer is dit in vredesnaam afgelopen? Het klinkt nergens naar en het is beresaai. Wat geestdodend repetitief gerag op een gitaar en ergens in de verte een mummelende bejaarde bij wijze van zang. En nog wat schrille tonen erbij om de oren nog eens extra te pesten. Volgens Wiki is dit nog hun 'most accessible' album... Hoe dan ook: een hele, hele, hele, hele, hele, hele, hele, hele, hele, hele (repetitief hè), hele, hele (hele) dikke vette 1.

Omdat het album me totaal niks zei, even gelezen wat mijn Brabantse luistermaat hiervan vond. Ik was direct gewaarschuwd, dit wordt een aanslag op het gehoorstel. Ondanks dat we toch aardig wat gewend zijn dachten we. Dus ik heb het bewaard voor een moment dat ik enigszins in de stemming was voor een bak teringherrie. En allejezus, ik snap gelijk als je onvoorbereid dit luistert, dat je direct afhaakt. De plaat slaat weer eens continu over, terwijl de luidspreker op mach 11 staat. Ik dacht dat een band als de Dillinger Escape Plan irritant hard was, maar dit is een soort overtreffende trap daarvan. Met moeite ontwaar ik er een soort van melodie in. Ondanks alles heb ik gek genoeg dit allemaal al wel eens gehoord, dus origineel is het ook niet eens. Ik ga dit uitluisteren heb ik mezelf voorgenomen, ik pak er desnoods nog een pint bij. Maar dit is wel hard werken. Als je dan harde muziek in je snobboekje wil zetten, prima, maar hier ga je geen zieltjes mee winnen. Ik twijfel of ik Napalm Death slechter vind of dit. Ik ben bang dat dit dan beter is, ik ontwaar hier zowaar af en toe nog een vleug van samenhang, maar het is goed luisteren. Als er al iets van zang is, zou je bij de muziekles in groep 1 zelfs te horen krijgen dat het wel genoeg is zo. Ik weet niet wat ons snobboek denkt dat het publiek is, dat deze lijst luistert. Als je dan van dit soort tyfusontoegankelijke meuk in je lijst stopt, wie ga je dan overhalen om een keertje wat buiten zijn of haar gebaande paden te luisteren? TL:DR. Hier doe je niemand een plezier mee. 1 ster

So bad, just noise

Whatever the hell that was, I think I am good never hearing it again.

Nope. Anxiety-inducing. Album cover art is cool, though.

Noise Punk is definitely not my jam. While I see what they were going for, I still hate it.

Seriously? No.

Ouch.

Didn't finish this one

Wtf was that?!

No accounting for taste - dreadful.

1. Hello Morning - N/A Track is under a minute and more a warm up track than anything else so it would be harsh to rate it. 2. Assassins - 4 Decent sound at times but at times also really drowning in itself. This is MUCH better noise rock than the previous albums from the genre I received in this challenge. 3. Dracula Mountain - 2 Some nice instrument play in this but the song is too long and it wears on you after two and a half minutes. 4. 2 Towers - 0 It just a monotonous droning that never ends. Opening minute is a terrible sound. 5. On Fire - 0 The sound just isn't good with the guitars peaking and screeching unpleasantly very often throughout the track. 6. Crown of Storms - 2 The main rift is awesome in this track but everything else in it is a waste of good vinyl. 7. Longstockings - 0 Guitar sounds like one of those terrible high school recorders kids would buy for band before slipping into pointless, directionless, and riftless noise during the second half. 8. Wonderful Rainbow - 1 The track builds to nothing and still contains random guitar peaking/screeching. 9. 30,000 Monkies - 0 Literally just noise. No purpose, no meaning, no concept, no quality. 10. Duel In The Deep - 0 No clue why this even exists. Average Rating: 0.9 Adjusted to a 5-Point Scale: 0.45 Rounded Down: 0 Stars. 1 star is given as 0 stars is not an eligible rating to give.

The reason this was put on the 1001 lists is because it was ‘a challenging listen’. They call this noise rock but the real name should be Guantanamo bay torture method music. Would give up the state secrets in a second if they played this on a second hand beats pill let alone blasting it through headphones. Also they released a song called 2 towers in 2003. Come on now read the room lads. Specific rating - 0.2 Fav song- long stockings Least fav- 2 towers

Ouch. Favourite song: On Fire Least: 2 Towers (or literally any of the other songs, felt- and sounded- like a drill in the side of my head)

Unlistenable. Managed 2 or 3 songs. Abrassive.

I saw noise rock and knew I was t going to like it. I wasn’t wrong

What I've learned is that I don't particularly care for noise rock. I made it through 3 songs....

I feel like I’m always down for some experimental rock, especially in the punk or metal genres. This just isn’t it for me. It was like sonic drivel for the majority of this album. Maybe I am missing the point, but it feels like there are better bands that push the boundaries of their genres than this one that could be in the 1001 albums.

I don't get it

Too much "heavy" for me

★½

Couldn't do it. By track 4 I had such a heaviness in my chest - couldn't tell if it was inducing a heart attack or panic attack. Didn't stick around to find out.

I tried but I just don’t get the appeal. I m not averse to being challenged by music but there has to be something enjoyable about the process. This left my ears ringing. I’m sure I can live with the disdain of the Rhode Island art school types

I didn’t fully listen to this album, but from what I heard I didn’t love that all the songs were instrumental, and they were also just kinda bad

Started good, then devolved into a pile of noise.

Tietenkin kiva, että tyypit on saaneet menestystä tekemällä omaa juttua, mut korvissa vinkuva ääni käännyttää mut heti.

Noise Chaos.

01) Hello Morning - 5,0 02) Assassins - 4,0 03) Dracula Mountain - 3,0 04) 2 Towers - 2,0 05) On Fire - 3,0 06) Crown of Storms - 4,0 07) Longstockings - 3,0 08) Wonderful Rainbow - 1,5 09) 30,000 Monkies - 1,0 10) Duel in the Deep - 1,0 TOTAL: 2,75 (28/100) Current ranking: 599/605 What a f****ng noise...

Boy, they really be letting anyone up in this list.

This gave me a headache.

Another commenter described this album as “the missing link between metal and dance” and I couldn’t disagree more. They’re clearly competent musicians but I can confidently say this is an album I will not willingly revisit.

point0.

Was. Zum. Fick? This is nothing, no songwriting, no technical proficiency, no storytelling, no arrangement, not even good sound. Is this deconstructive music? Although, I would argue that this is NOT music, there is nothing there... This is throwing paint at the wall and calling it painting. Worse than Einstürzende Neubauten, can you imagine that...

Driving angry hard rock, no vocals

where are you finding these albums?

Wonderful Rainbow by Lightning Bolt 1 STAR Oh no I cried when I revealed my album today, who they? But then I have thought that before and it has been okay. Then I wikied them and the first words that popped out were the two words guaranteed to put an icepick into my heart “noise rock”. Let’s think about that – If a tree falls in the wood does it make a noise? (debateable apparently, but yes it does) but would you actually call that noise music? I wouldn’t, and I definitely wouldn’t say that that this band makes music either.

this is horrible. It sounds like construction noise. Is that why the genre is called industrial?

Why would I be looking forward to "a mix of sheer abuse and welcome diversity, for a truly challenging listening experience"? This shit is just noise. It gave me anxiety listening to it.

*Weird music - no singing/lyrics. *Sounded like it could be used for a Tony Hawk video game. *Worked well as background music - almost like white noise. RATING - 3/10

Yeah, no.

Color me impressed. You've managed to find an "album" worse than any other thus far. It's shuddering to think we have yet to reach the bottom.

Oh boy. This review gave me enough warning to know this wasn’t going to be for me. A challenging listening experience? No thanks.

This was weird. No vocals, only a lot of messed up beats. My second one star, and of my 50 albums, this has been the worse.

1 - I heard this was Yoko Ono's favourite heavy metal band

i just can't. it is like a gnat in your face when you are hiking. JUST STOP

oke noiserock isch etz nuuuull mis. s erste churze het am afang no interessanti texture gha. assassins isch heeert repetitiv und jo d drums gönd absolut blööd aber he mue da sii? bin es paar songs deep und mengmol isch es riff no interessant aber es isch au immer extreeeem repetitiv und nöd sehr kreativ zum teil weg dem? nöd. geil.

Really just boring. No thread to follow, no development, not a complete listening experience. I’m getting really sick of shit like this popping up as if it’s some divine revelation that will change the audience’s understanding of music as we know it. I’ve heard noisier material, I’ve heard less tonal material, I’ve heard more repetitive material, all of it more interesting than this. GTFO.

There are a lot of genres I can appreciate even if I don't enjoy them, but this list has taught me that noise rock is not one of those.

Sounds like they had a good time dicking around and cool someone had enough storage on their iphone to record it all. Wonder if they ever formed a band and recorded an album.

Ouch. This sounds like poorly played bagpipes.

1. morning - 1.5 2. azazinz - 1 3. dracula - 1 4. touuerz - 1 5. fire - 1.5 6. ztormz - 1 7. ztockingz- 1 8. rainbouu - 1.5 9. monkeyz - 1 10. deep - 1

wtf is this

After 64 albums I did not have a single 1 star album. I guess this problem is solved now. I could act as if I understand the intent behind the music and give two stars but this was the first time I seriously doubted if I should finish listening. It is called noise for a good reason.

Not for me

Bay of shite, like an actual bag filled with shit It's like, hey assholes would it kill you to write a song with a tune! Sounds like the bits of bill and ted where they are trying to rock our but it's before they've learned to play their instruments.. 2 towers kinda had a beat though.

Hated it.

I couldn't get through it.

No, just no.

I don’t know what this crap was! Screeching?

Love the album cover art.

I want the person that decided to put this on the list to go to jail. 1/10

Terrible. Mostly noise.

Finally! A group whose favorite album was the unlistenable Metal Machine Music produces another dismal album.

too hard core for me

I dont know what the hell I just listened to

This doesn’t belong on the list- just noise with nothing to hold it all together. It’s like playing a queens of the stone age CD that has gotten stuck and is looping the same 3 seconds.

I need a sit down

Terrible!