Reviews (page 7 of 8)
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?
Booooo
Oh no absolutely not
noise
I struggled to enjoy any of this and I don't hear much art either. Expression, maybe, but the fact remains it's a horrid, wretched album. Possibly the worst thing on this list (so far).
Sigh. Take the loudspeaker off the singer. No, feedback is not an instrument in its own right. And for Pete's sake stop giving the drummer complete creative control.
Both noise and rock. Does what it says on the tin, however I am not buying that tin as I didn't enjoy it It's clearly good, but it's so unaccessible, so unfriendly and uncatchy
Just noise
Not ready for this.
Didn't make it past the second track. Not for me for today.
Ik heb niet zo'n hekel aan herhaaldelijke patronen, oftewel een ritme. Maar het geluid dat deze machine produceerd is niet heel aangenaam om naar te luisteren. Ze krijgen van mij een onvoldoende. Zet dat apparaat nu maar uit.
1 out of 5. Noise rock just isn't written for me, and that's ok. There were some bits did I enjoy throughout and see what others mean when they mention a groove.
Huh
I understand what they’re trying to do here but it’s not nearly interesting enough to be good. It could be! But it’s not.
Noise annoys
I like a lot of dissonant, abrasive music. But my god this is just awful. I couldn't get through the whole thing. Just a completely unpleasant chore to listen to. I get that it's cool to try something different and to try to push the envelope, but you gotta do that while also maintaining a minimum standard of not completely sucking while doing it.
Horrible, should be on the 1001 worst albums
I have mixed feelings about this album. Did I hate it? Or did I despise it? Perhaps both?
Uhh. No
This is their most accessible album. The others would surely be a powerful emetic.
Barely a 1. This is one of those albums they had to put on the list just to sit back and watch the bad reviews come in. Not sure why anybody would listen to this more than once.
Never even knew noise rock existed until today. I wish it had stayed that way. I would rather have poked needles in my jap's eye. This album was utter dross. No way this should be on here. fucking awful.
It is more accessible than I had expected but a little bit too boring for me (and that last song with the shrieking guitar is just unlistenable).
No
Not for me
Als Experiment ganz nett. Aber anhören kann man sich das nicht!
Grueling to listen to.
No thank you
Noise. Intentional noise. Not for me.1/5
First "song" sounds like a toddler grabbing an instrument and fooling with it. 2nd song just sounds like noise - not music!
MY BROTHER IN CHRIST WHY IS THIS ON HERE? If there was a list of 1001 albums you shouldn’t listen to before you die, this would be near the top.
Noise rock, does what it says on the can. Just have to wonder why? Beats getting a job I guess.
I thought it was bad enough being loud and shitty. Turns out it’s possible to be loud, shitty, and boring. The unfortunate part is that these guys are talented players. Sometimes, this approaches something resembling okay, only for them to repeat the same thing for six minutes. There is precisely nothing “wonderful” about this album.
Noise rock indeed.
Loksins! Loksins er þetta eyrnaangur búið. Þetta var ömurlega leiðinlegt og mér var eiginlega bara bumbult við að hlusta á þetta. Það virtist leynast ágætist tónlistargeta á bakvið allt en þetta ömurlega er bara svo yfirgnæfandi og leiðinlegt að ég vil aldrei þurfa að hlusta á þetta aftur.
While I'm always open to an "audio workout", this didn't transport any meaning for me.
not for me
Wish I could get that 45 minutes of my life back. Horrendous nonsensical noise
Not musical for me.
Don't care if it's innovative or fresh or anything, I listened to this like once in full and twice half and it's just not something I enjoyed, really at all.
Awful.
N O P E
Repetitive. Not enjoyable.
Not for me 1/5
Couldn't bring myself to listen to more than the intros of songs. Not for me
Appalling.
I was kind of digging it at first, then it became way too chaotic, and then it actually gave me a slight headache. These guys seem like talented musicians, sucks that they cover everything with so much noise
This sounds like music I'd end up making because it lacks any semblance of talent and is pure nonsensical noise. Wtf is this doing on this list?
https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/257938c5-33cb-4119-a2c5-43ffd1b1fa27
Middle school garage band noise
Wow I did not enjoy this but it is a better example of noise rock than other ones we’ve listened to
As the book so eloquently described: "a truly challenging listening experience." If this is considered their most accessible album, i don't want to hear the rest of their shit
Well, it didn't start so bad. Assassins and Dracula Mountain are quite good songs. But then, oh boy, it was an endless downwoard spiral. It got worse and worse. And then even worse. And it didn't end. No end? No, this does never end. Or not? Well, it has to have enden, otherwise I would not be writing this. NEVER AGAIN!
Gross 1/10
This is too ~artsy fartsy~ for me. Guess I don't "get" it.
too yelly
Fucking awful. On a positive note, I now have an additional baseline of awfulness, comparable to aural-pain that was The Cramps album - in fact, this may have been worse. I made it as far as 30 seconds into track 2, and that's only because track 1 was less than a minute long and I gave it the benefit of being an 'amusing' attempt by the artist at providing a breif interlude of the band warming up.
A bunch of noise that sometimes was alright
Truly awful
I can't imagine why you would listen to something like this other than to give yourself some sort of headache. There were moments in there that I thought I liked it but in the end I couldn't continue listening to it
This is their "most accessible album"! Maybe this review is influenced somewhat by the fact that I've been doing this whole project while I work during the week - and this music is fucking TERRIBLE for working along to - but I'd like to think that even if I had my headphones in, sitting in a quiet space and really honing in on this, I'd still think it was bloated gibberish. I like SOME of the melodic bits within it, and I like the badass sounding guitars. The genre's just not for me. I need structure! I can't handle how aggressive and frenetic this is. It's just a bunch of stupid noise.
Not my style of rock
This album has me wanting to bang my head into a wall.
There were moments where some rhythms weren't too bad, but they were completely offset by the fact that most of this album is just instruments making noise instead of music.
Just nose
Horrible, atonal noise. Not my thing at all
Bara oljud, gick inte att lyssna på. De kan ju spela men det blir inte bra för det.
I tried really hard but by the 3rd song this was giving me a crazy migraine
Nope.
Wow... I am actually speechless. This is so bad it is inconceivable. I had to skip some songs because I couldn't listen to it. I also went through all of them to see if there was anything worth salvaging, but everything was equally bad. We've had some pretty bad records on this must be the far worst one by quite a margin.
hell nah
Uggh, I’ve had more pleasant-sounding farts.
Out of all the albums that are a bunch of horrible and abrasive sounds shoved together completely randomly to a point that my ears shut down and try to tear themselves off the side of my head - this has been my favourite so far - 1.4
Nope. I already heard this. Except I knew it as ‘Goo’ by sonic youth.
skip straight to the track called WONDERFUL RAINBOW. There is an interesting pattern that develops in the nonsense. Like when you repeat a word out loud a hundred times it becomes something else. The rest is an art project not an album per se. Could be soundtrack to a psychological trauma or falling apart of a personality, or a cataclysmic dissociation or disorganised fugue state. .... Correction: I think this is what happens to the brain of a Meth addict. Highly unpleasant except for one notable track which is more trick than music.
Más música rara y experimental que es solo cacofónica y estridente.
Made me want to kill myself what a pile of rubbish
Oh this is just taking the piss now, how the smeg does this make it on to any list. The world does not need heavy metal freeform jazz."a challenging listen" ??? what a pretentious git this author is.
Just ugh.
Who is this for stop wasting my time
Absolute trash. Pure noise that's misnomerly titled as music A deserved crap 1 star
No, thank you!
This album sounds like when your 8 year old cousins come over and they ask to play your guitar
Awful. They are 99 gecs short.
Ännu ett helt jävla album av oljud som beskriv som "technical playing and noise chaos with color and imagination unlike any other band"
What's that noise...
Boring, the whole album could be one long crappy song.
”Full retard”-rock som hade varit kul att se live men som är helt hopplöst i lurarna. Behöver inte detta bröt i mitt liv.
Not for me
No thank you!
Washing machine + kettle + tinnitus noise, unpleasant listening throughout
It felt like every song had 15 seconds of interesting music that could be used to make good songs. But they would all just loop and had no lyrics to keep your attention. Music without words suck. Anyone who makes music which is described as 'challenging' is just bad at making music. It sounded like you handed a load of rock instruments to a jazz group. Just a load of noises playing over each other
Terrible. Just noise that loops and it’s shit. Can’t believe I listened to 40 minutes of this. There was about 2 minutes of good guitar and then ruined
One or two songs were interesting ish and melodic but the rest were an assault on the ears
Too much chaos
Awful!
This literally gave me diarrhea
Just awful. Unlistenable.
Nope, no, no thank you.
WTF
Awful. Drummer sounds like he is playing a nonstop crescendo drum solo, guitar is fuzzed to hell, bass is too loud, the music isn't remotely interesting and there are no vocals.
If you like chaotic, repetitive, noise you’ll love this one. If you like music you should probably move on
This app should be called 1001 mediocre thrash albums Utter noise
Pure noise. Random notes on a keyboard sound better. No talent here.
not my cup of tea
I had high hopes based on the cover art, but the rainbow art was the antithesis of the music. As I listened to the album, praying for it to end, I couldn’t help but ask, “Who is this for?”
They are doing their thing but it’s just not for me.
It lost me from the first song. I tried a few more. Just not engaging with me, that's all. "Different strokes...."
It's like putting shit in a garbage disposal and listening to the grind while sucking the poop slurry up with a straw.
what the fuck...
no music
absolute cheeks. TIL that noise rock is not my thing. still listened to the whole thing though 💪
1.5/10
Could not finish, just loud music. No lyrics, not my cup of tea
Blech.
Not for me.
Oh great, another noise album.
What the, what the hell? I thought this would only be a couple songs to explore their experimental mish mash, but this is a bit too long for comfort. 1.3
No, just noise that wasn't pleasant
This is the music I imagine ferret owners listen to
It was interesting at times, but it felt like they couldn't even play their instruments at times. The bass and drums fall out of time a lot, the snare sounds like it's made from a Quality Street tin, and some songs really drag on. It was marginally interesting here and there, but not one of the 1001 best albums of all time.
Hell no
I pride myself in listening to the entire album in case there's a hidden gem. Nope, just more dog shit. I had to read about it too see if I was missing something. If it's one thing I've learned through this, Noise Rock is NOT my thing.
Listened to this while playing Barcelona solo. I won. I remember this album getting some buzz when it came out. I listened to it back then and really didn't like it. I listened to it again now and still hated it. There were tracks I didn't mind as much (I think maybe the 3rd track)...but I honestly felt like this was 40 minutes of torture for my aging chihuahua. My very first 1 star album.
Noise
Really disliked this.
I can confidently say I will NEVER listen to this album again. Awful, retched, just terrible. I was already in a pretty foul mood when I put this album on and it did nothing but make me moodier. I like a good industrial album that's heavy on noise and distortion, but JFC, this was like a bunch of toddlers were given electric instruments and loads of sugar.
Not for me.
Worst thing I've ever heard
It`s difficult to listen the whole album
i couldn't understand a single fuck, those songs are extremely loud and pointless
How can a band with such a cool name and album name be so terrible. This is noise.
Truly awful.
Great for if u need to do a hard workout… maybe…
Challenging listening experience they say. Nah shit just sucks .
A step above noose
this is interesting, cant say i enjoyed it tho. at least i didnt expect much from 2003 "rock". theres certainly lots of colors in the mixing, the cover does go well with that. anyway, i cant see how a sane person can say: oh yeah this album, i love it, listen to it everyday. neither can i see how someone think its influential, because it only influenced me to take a dump so yeah.
Their bio says "bridging the worlds of technical playing and noise chaos" Unfortunately I hate noise chaos and the emphasis is very much on that. The most listenable track is Wonderful Rainbow, because not a lot happens there...
Wtf was that 👎
dafuq
What a bunch of messy garbage. Not even good messy garbage
Yeh nah, this is bad. Was prepared to cut these guys some slack after the first couple of tracks, which admittedly are a little bit interesting. But it’s downhill after that, and by the end of the album all my good will has been exhausted. Quite clearly they can play, but they are taking the piss here and it gets annoying by album’s end (the vocals are especially excruciating). ‘Wonderful Rainbow’ is an ear rape of a record.
This is a tech demo, not an album. The musicians, particularly the drummer, are highly skilled with their instruments, but at no point do they create music. A skilled musician may enjoy observing their prowess, but nothing played here is intended to move an audience. With the volume at 1, my ears still burned.
At the beginning it's really bad, and the end is like the beginning.
pouash, the fuck is this shit?
Synes det var dårligt hørte ikke færdig
I found it odd and unpleasant.
What sounds like a bunch of random people went to a Guitar Center, ripped some lines of coke in Aisle 4, and went hog wild on the instruments simultaneously.
It is really shamefull for a list of such great albums that this piece of music is included. It starts with plain noise: my initial thought was that it is fine, but it has to be compensated. Like in Echoes by Pink Floyd or in a Day in the Life by the Beatles. Parts of the songs are ugly, but other parts are really beautiful to compensate that. This album is just plain noise, there is no compensation. This is a painting where the painter just threw lots of paint at the canvas. Maybe there are some specific parts of the album that would fit in a song to give a good album a low point. But this is no good album, I would give this a 1/10.000. This site would be better if we could grade 1/100.
Svært at synes om, men det har dog energi - kunne måske fungere live hvis man var godt skudt af på et eller andet
Noise, mostly
Absolutely zonked when I heard this album. It's like a baseballbat with needles, put on fire, repeatedly bashing you in the head. I just can't understand what bands like this are going for and try to achieve other than make the most unenjoyable music ever to be heard. It's just so off putting and I don't think I will ever "get it". Cheers to those who do like it, there seems to be heaps of you freaks. 1,5 out of 10
Right down there with Slipknot and Throbbing Gristle. Dead last actually.
No
Terrible tbh
bad stuff
Should have been named ‘Not a rainbow at all’
I’d much rather listen to paint dry.
I listened to the whole thing just so I could say I gave it a fair shake. There was a short time during the Dracula song that I actually thought, "Hey, that's a pretty cool beat they got going there." But that was the extent of my enjoyment of that album. This is what pretentious people listen to and pretend they like to be seen as "avant-garde", but unless they like people banging things and making noise with no discernible intent or rhythm whatsoever, they are lying to themselves. This is worse than toddlers banging on instruments. At least toddlers are cute. Ugh.
super punk, not in the way i like though. VERY abstract and overall meh, not my taste. i could see other people liking it, but it's just not for me.
The 1001 book describes Lightning Bolt as creating "a mix of sheer abuse and welcome diversity, for a truly challenging listening experience." Such a challenging experience that it was removed from future editions. I have challenged myself to the abuse for the second time, because I had no idea what to write originally two years ago. There won’t be a third time.
Noisy noise a la Sonic Youth
Way to heavy punk for me. 1.0
Rubbish!
This physically hurt my ears.
# 29 : THRASH! All over the place. Loud and noisy, but I guess that is the idea. Hard to follow what was going on.
Awful offal.
Listened Before? N Noisy! I know that's the point but I have a little bit of trouble figuring out how this belonged on this list. One thing this list is teaching me is that there's probably only about 501 albums you need to hear before you die! Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: Wonderful Rainbow
As far as "experimental" music goes, this is almost listenable. I would even dare say there are a few riffs that are pretty good. That said, I can't in good conscience give this anything above 1 star.
Herrie
Couldn't finish it. Like if McClusky decided they weren't annoying and screechy enough. And also decided that melody and rhythm wasn't important. And also that it's not music if it doesn't hurt your brain.
Messy ear torture,1/5
No.
We have the runaway winner for the coveted title belt of "Absolute Worst Album On The List". And frankly it isn't even close. Congratulations, I guess.
Ok will never listen to this album ever again
C'est quoi ca... du bruit, mon dieu c'est tellement weird mais pas dans le bon sens... 1.5
Made it through 1 1/2 songs and then gave up. Horrible.
Sounds like discombobulated like tera melos