Wonderful Rainbow

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

noise noise noise did not like

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!

1/10

wtf my poor ears. i dont know whats going on and my head hurts after three songs </3 i don't think this is my genre of music. Can't even finish it. I gave it a good shot and it wasn't improving at all. Overall: 1/5

Noise. What it might sound like if Trent Reznor was an incompetent composer.

If this was performed by a grade school garage band, ot would still be shit.

Ew. Too much chaos. 1/5

nope. not my thing

Pretty bad, no reason it should be on this list. Had me dozing off at work.

I didn't get this at all. It's just noise to me.

...

From the first note, it was annoying. Scratchy noisy useless music.

Honestly. What the fuck is this? Never heard of these idiots, never would listen to them, and I don't understand people who think this qualifies as music. Zero stars.

loud and repetitive with no payoff...bad

Noise - Bad NOISE Who likes this BULSHIT ??? It's time for therapy.

Chaotic, harsh. Drums with muddy base guitar

It sounded like… Well? Noise. And given it’s classified as noise rock, I guess that’s not surprising. Hated it!

Terrible. Just awful. This is noise and nothing more.

I do not enjoy this

Hell to the no! I got through 1 song and thought oh shit, struggled halfway through the album, and off to the trash bin this goes.

I kept trying to lower the sound in my headphones, but the music would cut out. I did this a couple of times before I realized I had it at the lowest setting before mute, and it was still too loud. This music is annoying.

horrible.

I have had farts that are more musical and deserving to be on this list.

Great band name, great album cover, great song titles. But I'm here to judge the music. At first, I was ready to give this a 1/5. I was sure there was something in there that people could enjoy, but I didn't think I was one of those people. Then I came to the realization: this band knows what they're doing. Moreso than most bands I hear, they have a vision and they stick to it. Despite the fact that the vision didn't land with me, I considered rating it higher out of respect for the artists. However, putting this at a 2 or 3 would be to put it among the bland and uninteresting albums I've encountered on this journey, and in some ways, that feels even more offensive than giving it a 1. So out of respect for the same respect for the artists that lead me to consider giving it a higher rating, I'm choosing to leave it at a 1. Definitely belongs on the list, and I'll die a happy man if I never have to listen to this again. Favorite Track: Wonderful Rainbow

I beg your pardon? What the fuck was that?

This was neither wonderful nor a rainbow

Ha! I draw this fucked up album for a drive thru the Georgia countryside? Nope. Didn’t make it 10 miles! My wife thought this was Yoko Ono’s Punk band. No thanks.

No.

bad

chli kontext: es esch en wunderschöne sunntig gsi ahfangs früehlig. i ben de ganz tag ide bib gsi und han mi eif gfreut uf es neus album z lose. denn lesi wonderful rainbow und denk mer huh das passt jez sicher zu dem sunnige tag. und denn eschs eif metallica in no schlimmer gsi wtf. het mer fasch de tag versaut. ab und zue chunt mol chli es nicers riff aber denn weder eif lärm. es esch wök eif lärm i check ned wie mer so öppis chan fühle.

Absolutely NOT!!!

Awful noise

There was nothing wonderful about this album

Not even a 1.

One of the worst things I've had to endure.

Listen again: no Purchase for my collection: no Favourite Song: 2 Towers (the least amount of “noise” with the best guitar) First few seconds were painful and I thought ohhhhh no, what am I in for. Then guitar riffs start and I’m excited. Then just noise that is rough, then more good guitar riffs. So confusing. It draws you in with something awesome, then as fast as you can appreciate it, it flips to something you can’t stand, and vice versa. Reading the wiki, rock noise is a totally accurate way to describe it. And this too: This album is listed in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, which describes the band as creating "a mix of sheer abuse and welcome diversity, for a truly challenging listening experience".[1] Glad it was short because I wasn’t doing it twice.

straight trash

I can't do this one.

Not for me

0.5 - Please Kill Me

Three songs in and I don’t know how I’m gonna get through this one. Couldn’t do it. I said I’d listen to every album but this wasn’t even music. Genuinely worse than the kid rock album I sat through.

Die Irren vom Schrottplatz! Einfach nur Scheiße!

A few seconds of each song may work for sound editing in movies, games, etc. but I could not deal with entire songs.

Terrible

There could not be a more misnamed recording. This is not wonderful, nor a rainbow. Repetitive drumming and bass/guitar patterns with occasional incomprehensible "vocals". Not list worthy, sorry!

Noise

???

This was honestly one of the most confusing things I've ever heard. It's just like people tuning their guitars and trying to offend me?

I think this would be great for some people, but this felt like sensory overload and an anxiety attack to me

Whenever an album description includes the words, "a truly challenging listening experience", there's a very good chance I'm going to hate it.

An atrocious assault on the ears. Imagine a scene in a room where there's a school band and they play tunelessly for a few seconds to be kind of inept but cute before getting his at the end of the movie. Well it's like that but for 40 minutes.

Another noise album on the list, and I just can’t handle it. My neuro spiciness just hears metal scraping on metal and didn’t even finish track 1.

WTF!!

it's grating on my ears

It's just noise, and not pleasant noise at that.

Just no.

It was very evocative of a time and place, but I couldn't get into it.

Utter trash

Im pretty terrible at any musical instrument despite how much I wish I wasn't. This album shows me I should stop worrying about my skill level.

bad

Awful

DNF, could not finish this, I tapped out after the 4th song where they stuck a bunch of forks in the garbage disposal and turned it on Best Song: N/A Rating: 0/10 1 Stars

Congratulations to Wonderful Rainbow for setting a new low bar. I didn’t think it was possible to make Rain Dogs and Bone Machine sound like masterpieces, but here we are. This isn’t music — it’s what I imagine a blender full of forks sounds like when you drop it down a flight of stairs. If there was any artistic message buried in the feedback and noise, it got completely lost somewhere between my growing headache and the overwhelming urge to throw my speakers out the window. A truly wonderful waste of time.

Noise rock is right. Not for me at all.

Lightning Bolt — это не группа, это звуковой экскаватор, который заехал прямо к вам в голову и отказывается уезжать. Такую, с позволения сказать, музыку могли создать только люди, которые яро ненавидят не только своих слушателей, но и саму концепцию человеческого слуха, как органа чувств. Брайан Чиппендеил (да-да, сразу и Чип, и Дейл) принципиально не пользуется микрофонными стойками и обычными микрофонами. Вместе этого он использует микрофон, встроенный в домашний телефон, который держит во рту или прикрепляет к маске. Звучит это настолько же отвратительно как и выглядит. Просто жалобный вой, утопающий в сплошной стене шума. Можно ли назвать это музыкой? Вопрос философский. Звуком — да. И этот звук очень неприятный. Каким образом это могло попасть в список «1001 музыкальный альбом, которые ты должен услышать, прежде чем умрёшь» — понятия немею. Может у вас есть варианты?

From Artist Bio: "Bridging the worlds of technical playing and noise chaos with a color and imagination..." JFC, must we?

This album was an unequivocal, hard no.

I don’t understand why you’d learn to play an instrument and be musical enough to get a deal to churn this out. Just shit.

It almost convinced me that it wasn't a complete pile of dung, but ultimately failed

A right load of crap. No reason to exist, let alone be in this book

Yeah, no. I fucking hate this.

No standouts really but not as unlistenable as I thought it might be

Not for me at all. I can’t think of a reason to want to listen to this genre. Reminded me of the sound you would hear if someone drives past you with, car stereo cranked high with death metal playing. I won’t lie though, the repetition of the sound and the beat in each song kind of made me stay and bop my head in time. Maybe there was something I liked, or maybe I’m just trying too hard. That said there’s something sinister at work so I’m still gonna give it a 1.

Bruh, my ears hurt

This is absolutely horrendous. There are no musical qualities at all that I can extract from this album whatsoever. It's just sheer, blinding, excessive drums and heavy guitar and builds to nothing as the song and albums progresses. Genuinely shocked why this album is on here.

Just noise

Not great.

Too much

Mjög leiðinlegt. Áfram gakk.

This really isn't for me. Hard to tell who this is for. I guess they succeeded in what they were trying to achieve, but can't say it's an enjoyable experience. If I wanted to listen to noise rock, I'd skip this and go to Swans. Only saving grace is the short run time. Best Tracks: N/A Worst Tracks: - Pretty much everything. Rating: 1/10

Congratulations, Kraftwerk. I found something I like even less than you! This gave me a headache. I listened to a bit of every track but skipped fairly quickly to the next track so I didn’t have to spend so much time listening. Officially my new least favorite album of this project!

From the Wiki page description I expected to hate this more than I did, but it was close. Still, a solid 1.

40 minutes of noise. Made me anxious. Hated it.

Nope

This is not the type of joke I find funny. The nicest, most approachable & intellectual person you can imagine could pitch this album to me and I would tell them to piss off. Don't you dare tell me it is avant-garde or some shit. Any asshole can make noise, call it art and then cringelord hipster bros will pretend it's simply too experimental/innovative to be appreciated by mainstream audiences. They called this album a "a truly challenging listening experience" while still lauding it as some sort of boundary-pushing triumph. Which is a republican ass way to frame an unnecessary slog through shit as virtuous. No. This album is just bad, I feel bad for wasting my time listening to it and so should you.

Two songs in.....nope

Piero Manzoni famously canned his own shit and sold it as a work of art. Lightning Bolt couldn’t even be troubled to produce a solid bowel movement, selling us only fart sounds instead.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V67Mx_gu3lU

…what the shit? This sounds like improvisational jazz (not a good thing) played by people taking many drugs of varying effects. I tried to zone out and let the lack of melody stir up something in my brain, and I kinda got there, but the same could be said of sitting in silence or listening to radio static. And it would be less exhausting.

Just a bunch of screamy, screechy noises - absolutely horrible. I had to skip some songs they were so bad. There were a few songs that were more drum-heavy that were slightly better, but I would prefer to never listen to this album again.

Unfortunately, this was just noise to me and I didn’t enjoy listening. It made me anxious /:

WTF.

This isn't a quality album you must hear. This is noise that's been recorded. How about any of the other 6000000 artists that make good albums.

Very much an acquired taste, this genre. One I've no intention of acquiring. A couple of tracks resembled music but I've had papercuts I've enjoyed more.

I liked the intensity and I have no issue with the thrash, but songs were so repetitive I lost interest and looked forward to it ending.

Ok, this was a truly awful album. There are barely any melodies on it, no singing, nothing, just noise. It's one of the worst albums I had so far (#628 album in this challenge).

Not sure what that was.

barulho, somente barulho, como me botam isso como album pra se ouvir antes de morrer? se tivesse a opção de 0 estrelas era o que eu colocaria

Too much noise. 1/5

Jesus H Christ these guys can play, I just wished they bothered to play songs instead of sounds. This might be the shit in this genre, but to me this is the punk/trash equivalent to free jazz. There was a point during the second song I thought I might be able to find a second star, but in total this annoys me, which is my criteria for giving one star.

Una mierda horrible inescuchable, lo único que le rescato es que termina. Un secuestro + tortura debería ser musicalizado con esto. Es como una electrónica trash.

It's been all modern albums this week and it is the third time this week I wonder why an album deserves to be in this book. In fact, why would this book do this to us? What have I done to deserve this album in my ears? I realize there are more musically enlightened people who will "get this" sound and I'm convinced they are trying to be contrarian. The musicianship is fine. It's just not enjoyable music for me and I don't see why it should be in the book. I can make fart noises into a microphone and call it "Fart Rock," but that doesn't mean my album should be represented. Admittedly, this music did help a lot as I was a bit annoyed during my second listen to the album and the noise probably helped fuel my annoyance. That felt good but accomplished nothing...

The parents were right. The music the kids listen to these days is just noise. I don't know if adding vocals would have improved this - probably not, just would have made it noisier, I'm sure. Too much screeching feedback, too much of everything, really, for my morning commute. There were a couple of brief moments where I didn't hate this. An Eddie Van Halen-like guitar tapping part and the intro to Longstockings, but not nearly enough to bring it up from a 1/5. Best track: Hello Morning (it's under a minute)

The book describes the band as creating "a mix of sheer abuse and welcome diversity, for a truly challenging listening experience.” I chose not to be challenged, and gave it the 30-second treatment. That was far too much.

2003. Noise Rock. 3/10 2 Towers Wonderful Rainbow

wut

1

It was okay until it got to the seven minute where they repeat the same 2 second riff for what feels like an eternity.

somewhat rhythmic noise

Noise indeed

Best bit was the end

1/6

This is making troubleshooting a Python script even more stressful. This is the type of music you have to sit through because you didn't want to miss the opener.

Het begint ultiem kut met een verschrikkelijk schel kutintro en ik heb al meteen zin om op één ster te rammen en door te gaan. Hekel. Daarna verandert het van schelle bende naar kankerherrie. Als je dit hoger geeft dan 1 ster ben je stoer aan het doen of je zit echt op een bizar specifiek stukje van het spectrum. Het ergst vind ik dat ik dit wel vet had kunnen vinden, als ze net iets minder extreem zouden doen. Sommige stukjes drums en de groove zijn wel lekker, maar er zit een dikke laag op hol geslagen Super Nintendo overheen waar ik alleen maar hoofdpijn van krijg. Kan ik dit helemaal luisteren? Tuurlijk: dood zal ik er niet aan gaan, maar ik ben geen debieltje. Na 3 minuten in track 4 weet ik genoeg. Ik ga verder.

Ok, where did this one come from? One of the worst albums to rate...

I'd give it a zero if I could.

Squeeeeeeek, squeeeeeeek, squeaaaal! Squeeeeeaaal, squeeeek, squeaak! *Yadda, yadda, yadda* Squeeeeeaaal, screeeek, squeaak! Sceeeeeeek, squeeeeeeek, squeaaaal! Me and my neighbours hate it!

Horrible crap.

1/10 I don't feel that I need to explain my art to you warren. 10-29-2024

Just noise. Shite

Album 570 of 1001 Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow (2003) Rating : 0 / 5 This is likely the worst thing I have ever listened to. It is literally nothing but noise. What a waste of time.

I am fed up of this 30 seconds in. Update: it did not improve.

Couldn't hear it more than 2 songs! All noise.

It’s noise…and monotonous, fuck me!

Unlistenable noise. Why is this here?