Movies

Kinda cool. Literally sounds like a movie soundtrack.

quirky - a curious collection of ideas and pastiches

wasnt the noise I was expecting. I listened it was ok but not his biggest fan

Absolutely batshit but in such a talented and funky way. Somewhere between prog and chillout. I thought this was fantastic.

I absolutely love it. Unique; mind-bindingly ahead of its time; irreverent; but most importantly, emotionally evocative and beautiful.

Nah bruh sorry

Experimental in a good way, Persian love was surprisingly good

I don’t know how to classify this. Weird, esoteric, occasionally catchy? But music that, if my date put it on in the car, I would immediately expect to be either killed or bored to death while he told me about the characteristics of various IBM calculators from the 80s.

I really appreciated the strangeness of this album, especially that first song. Got out of the vibe on the third song though.

Nah. Next, please.

This album is a great example of why I am doing this - I’ve never heard of this guy, nor his band Can, yet there is so much to love about this album. The first track is completely wacky, the rest are great prog/experimental pieces with interesting soundscapes built up of flamenco guitar, synth lines, and some spidery bass lines. The vocals continue to be a bit wacky throughout but that’s only a minor distraction. Excellent album.

recontra experimental, me gusto

Yeah... this was ok, but I'd rather play a Can album. The best way I can describe this, is being too commercial to be Can, yet too weird to be successful in the mainstream. So not really doing anything. Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ Revisit ❌️ ★★★☆☆(6/10) Total reviewed : 414 Already owned : 93 Purchased : 21 To buy : 5 Nope : 295

Not what I expected. Far from the serious, chinstroking vibe of Can, this is quite silly - funky, colourful, like a mosaic of different ideas. As 'songs' they don't really work, but an interesting, different listen. Somewhere on that 3/4 boundary - let's say a very high 3.

Top opener of all time

I don’t dislike it, but the noise of it all hurt my head. The first track was just weird, and then it got a little better. It was very interesting though, I’ll give it that.

More accessible than his work in Can while still being experimental. Lightly challenging in the track lengths, I suppose, but there was enough variety to keep me engaged. Not as strange as the Wiki blurb had me expecting. His vocals kind of cracked me up. He sounds both sincere and like he’s doing a bit.

I do enjoy Czukay's work with Can a lot, but this solo album is just hopelessly uneventful. Maybe I should re-listen to it, as I have only heard it once years ago when I was going through all of the 1001 albums and my taste has matured since then. Either way, I don't remember it fondly so I'm very hesitant.

Len Houmous once made a movie. It was so good the film studio wouldn’t release it. 0.7 1/4 Cool In The Pool

Never listened. Expectations: High - Verdict: Very Good - The first groove is good and the goofy lyrics are quite endearing. I would expect the bass at least to be very good on this album. Oh Lord, Give Us More Money is fantastic. The vocal snippets remind me of the experiments Eno and Byrne would go on to try. The whole album has a similar feel and I really like it.

Better than I thought it’d be

It was fine. Easy to space out to.

An interesting album, impossible to rate after one listen, so I will give it a 3 for now. I can both hear some Can and Jazz Fusion-ish sounds in it, but also getting a feeling of it being ahead of its time, with the use of samples sounding more like the 90s-00s sometimes.

This was Cool in the Pool

Hooked from track 1. Funky, great bass lines, a sense of fun. What’s not to like? Sure, some might say the 15 minute song on a 4 song 40 minute album. Some might aay the Persian (?) warbling over a reggae back track. And yet otgers might say the other 15 minute track in a 4 track 40 minute album where the delivery of themm be lyrics gives off a Spinal Tap in their prog phase vibe. Where’s your sense of whacky German fun I say. Where’s your appreciation for something that could be background music, elevator songs, which pkayed at the right level ould make you look up occasionally with a quizzed expression and audible ‘huh?’ As in the lull a whacky synth blurts out electronica here or the funk intensity creepa up to 11 there.

Mostly instrumentals and really not my thing

Genuinely just an incredibly fun listen, both experimental and doesn't take itself too seriously. Well worth a listen, especially the last track which more than earns the 15 minute length

Cool in the Pool is tres cool; synth-slicked, kinda funny, heavily accented. Weird Al's take on disco if he took music as seriously as Zappa. Track two is largely instrumental, a psychedelic jam session with more synths and string-picked goodness.

Ugh ok 2.5/5

Not a fan

Persian love is an interesting song but can't say I rate the rest

Number: 217 Familiarity: None (1) Rating: 4 Before: ======= No clue, but I'm expecting something weird. During: ======= Oh, not at all what I was expecting, LOL. I mean that first track really made me chuckle. Sounds kind of parody-ish, I wonder if that was the intent? I liked the sampling in Oh Lord Give Us More Money, particularly the cat at 4:47, both times I thought it was my cat. I assume the sampling was pretty innovative for 1979. After : ======= Definately interesting. I doubt I'll be listening to this again but glad I had the chance to listen at least once. OK, it was probably 3-4 times.

i do love CAN, first time listening to Holger solo - let's see.... well it's about what i'd expect from 1979. interesting enough.

Noise! Sounds! Groove! Funk!

Holger the singer of Can!! Enjoyed this more than their album maybe partly because he was just trying so much stuff in here. Incredible moment at the 6 minute mark of Hollywood Symphony where some random voice suddenly says “hello darling have you heard the news”, and I think there must still have been like 10 minutes to go

Let's get coooi in ze poooooooool

What a load of horse manure.

Strange but good.

WTF

I wanted to like this more. It's silly, but sometimes too silly. Perfectly listenable though, not that i want to listen again. Some nice grooves and bits on Hollywood Symphony and frankly it wasn't too experimental as I could listen without wanting to turn it off. Still, I'm not going to listen again.

this really, really, really didn’t do it for me

It's not unpleasant, but it's not a cohesive thing. Very experimental, I'm sure they were trying lots of new sampling techniques or something which will have inspired the next generation of people to make something incredible... But this just sounds like a brainstorming session for those future albums rather than a good piece of music in and of itself. Not unpleasant but not a great album really.

Non comprendo la valutazione generale negativa (2.72 di media). Sicuramente non è un album facilissimo da ascoltare e apprezzare. La sperimentazione c'è tutta e l'avanguardia si mescola con il pop in modo veramente particolare e interessante. Come ho letto in alcune recensioni, l'album sembra un po' non prendere una direzione precisa e che i brani non si evolvano mai in qualcos'altro. Si sperimenta su una base fissa anche per più di dieci minuti, in modo interessante e con degli ottimi spunti, ma appena finisci di ascoltare ti ricordi poco della sperimentazione. Molto bella 'Cool in the Pool', interessanti 'O Lord, Give Us More Money' e 'Hollywood Symphony', molto strana 'Persian Love' (forse quella in cui il ponte fra pop e avanguardia è stato costruito meglio).

what the hell

This was kinda weird and fun actually. The german accent is ridiculous lol.

Right from the start, I thought, "I bet Les Claypool has listened to this. It's pretty weird, especially in that a lot of disparate elements are all layered atop one another. Actually, it's pretty catchy. Given that it's really short and fairly innovative for 1979, I highly recommend listening to this. I wouldn't say it's a classic but I do think it's an essential listen. 4/5

Different not my thang though …

J'ai trop aimé ! C'était dynamique et fun, de bonnes instrus nettes, un peu entre Philippe Katerine et Nick Cave, bonne decouverte

Ça allait

Plutôt sympa mais quelques passages bizarres

Good effort but not for me

Didn't do much for me, sorry Holger

I’m sure there are lots of interesting things to say about this album — but I’ll leave them for someone else to say. This didn’t interest me at all.

I thought this was going to be something new, but my spotify algoritm has put "cool in the pool" into rotation before. All songs have very different vibes so I'm not sure what mood I'd be in to return to this

Liked it more than I thought I would, but still not something I’d ever need to listen to again.

Good music.

Got tired and annoyed with it very quick

I guess it's tongue in cheek and very funny. But I somehow cannot join the fun.

Summer Jazzy eastern European pop

I mean listen man, this is not the worst thing I've ever listened to. There are some almost-grooves, and the sampling really is interesting. This album gets a lot better if you pretend that the only song on it is Hollywood Symphony. Other than that, what the fuck are we doing here Holgy. Surprised people like this as much as they do.

The first song lyrically was the equivalent of a bad rip-off of Dr Seuss. Then by the 3rd song I was begging for the simple rhyming lyrics to come back. Horrid album.

Cool In The Pool

A bit weird, but some fun and psychedelic guitar work, will have to give this another spin.

I know that CAN with their singer Holger were super influential, but this one was a dificult listen. I would give this 5 stars alone for not being from an english-speaking country but this is as stupid as listening to an album before dying solely because the band of this guy was influential.

Czukay's debut album sounds quite a bit like his former band, with its repeated, minimal instrumentation. Though while Can's version of funk and grooves were often not truly funky or all that groovy, this is a bit smoother. Does that mean it's better? Well, not exactly. The opening track "Cool in the Pool" is a lot of fun, with some actually funky bits, a good chorus, and sporadic samples. After that the songs get more drawn-out and lack the things that make the opener great. There are early uses of sampling on the album, but they don't usually amount to much or feel that satisfying. It's definitely not a bad album, but it rarely crosses over into being enjoyable.

Cool in the Pool is pretty great. 3.75/5

this ep is good, its definitely unique, and i love his use of samples

This is album #86 for me in the list, and the third one I had never heard of before, although I am certainly aware of Can. Is that a french horn at the beginning?

Amazing and weird, this album truly stands on its own. Holger Czukay draws from a wide variety of cultures and musical styles to create an album that somehow feels global and modern, despite the traditional and regional elements. I am fascinated by this album and would eagerly listen to more. My one complaint is that the lyrics for "Cool in the Pool" are a little cheesy, but I can overlook that for the excellence of the other tracks. Favorite track: "Oh Lord, Give Us More Money"

Fantastic, groovy and diverse. First track was not my favourite, but I loved the rest.

Pretty interesting ngl

Really interesting and enjoyable. Will continue to revisit. 3.5

I think he may have taken all of the sound effects from the tools on a PowerPoint software program and hit record. I haven’t given higher than a 3 in weeks. I’m in a rough patch. Get me out!

2026.07.21

160726 10:45 3.5

That were weird.

This was out there!

The more I sit with this, the less I like it.

zany and zippy but often not my cup of tea

Vu que cet album fait partie de la carrière solo de Holger Czukay, membre fondateur de Can, il fallait s'attendre à ce que ça devienne très vite expérimental. Et je me suis pas planté. Ici, on n'est pas vraiment dans le krautrock de Can, même si on sent les influences et le même désir de tenter toutes sortes de bizarreries. Tout juste quatre titres expérimentaux, qui partent dans plein de sens différents... et c'est un peu ça le problème. Quand Can est bizarre (c'est à dire tout le temps), il garde quand même un cap clair et même les compositions à rallonge qu'on retrouve sur Tago Mago sont cohérentes. Ici, Holger Czukay semble vouloir tenter un peu tout et n'importe quoi sans se donner de limite. Et ça donne un album souvent intéressant, mais jamais passionnant non plus. Je sens qu'il va être mal noté par les utilisateurs, celui-là. Mais j'espère quand même qu'à un moment, on aura enfin un album de Can !

This was kind of weird but I liked the vibe.

그냥 나쁘진 않았는데 막 좋다는 느낌은 없었다. It wasn't bad, but I didn't get the feeling that it was particularly great.

I could not get into this. Weird and esoteric, and at times funky, but didn't grab me at all.

As tine goes by*

This was good fun and quite funky. I don't really get the low score.

Interesting slightly oddball experimental world fused with Krautrock fused with electronica. Can't decide between 3 and 4 stars.

Pretty good actually. Psychedelic

not necessarily a 5 star album, but this is the sort of records that I crave when working through album lists like this

I'd probably give it a 3.5 realistically. Interesting but not that good.

Nice instrumentals, movie-esque, tho a little boring

This was not good. Like at all.

tava completamente na vibe de experimentação no limite quando pensou nesse álbum né, daora dito isso, é legalzinho

bem experimental mesmo, vai pra vários lados mas eh interessante. até as mais longas não enjoam, mto bem feito e divertidinho!!

Ik ben in een wat vreemd hoekje van van het 1001 boek beland de laatste dagen. Als Kate Bush normaal lijkt weet je dat het serieus is. Dit is lelijk, fout en raar. Al zijn er ook goede kanten: Er is nog net een normaal doorlopend drumbeatje en genoeg structuur om het muziek te laten blijven en er wordt niet continu zo extreem mogelijk geëxperimenteerd om maar uniek te zijn. M'n favoriete stukken zijn wel de stukken waar Holgert z'n Duitse snaveltje toe houdt. Het gebruik van samples is ook leuk, al is het wel een beetje alsof je aan het luisteren bent naar een rare of slechte film. Binnen z'n stijl, waar ik moeilijk een naam op kan plakken maar zeg maar de stijl waar drugs-gebruikende liefhebbers van bètavakken enthousiast van worden, vind ik dit zelfs één van de betere werken, omdat het nog enigszins te behappen is voor de amateurluisteraar zoals ik. Ik snap het als mensen een 1 geven (al hebben die het denk ik te snel afgezet), ik snap het als ze een 2 geven en ik snap zelfs een krappe voldoende nog. Ik hou het zelf op de middelste.

Thought this was music but it’s Movies? I should listen to his album Motion Pictures next. Also I wouldn’t have know this guy was from Can if not for Sameen but now I also see it says “from Can” on the cover so I should pay more attention

this was really fun and cool... and i liked the iranian song... i like can

This isn't really my bag, but it's fine. Sort of reminds me of Masayoshi Takanaka at times. Obviously more electronic stuff and whatnot but that's kinda the feel it gave me at times. The songs are pretty long but don't drag too much. "Persian Love" stands out to me as a nice song. "Hollywood Symphony" seems like the most out-there song with weird time signatures and weird vocals and experimental structure.

3 out of 5. Interesting album and landscape it makes. Now to go stay Cool in the Pool B)

Krautrock is indeed a great thing and the second composition can be compared with Can's Bel Air, which to me is one of the best tracks on the list so far. The album's structure is the one that generally means there's going to be cool material. But Oh Lord Give Us More Money remains the album's best and only outstanding track. The intro and the 3rd one are in fact interludes of conpletely differing styles, while the last track feels too chaotic and melody lacking though it has a couple of really good parts. All in all, a really creative album which sadly does not reach its full potential.

Breath of fresh air. Loved this.

This is a bit more like it. German experimental from one of the Can mainstays.

Weird, interesting, a nice working soundtrack. Very 70s, sci-fi, a decently jazzy.

I wanted to hate this album. First song is cringy as hell. But there is some serious music going on in here that I can't get over! Didn't need each song to be 10 minutes, but I enjoyed some of the jazzier chords he threw in here. I'm sure there is some deeper meaning in what he was trying to say, but I couldn't hear it bc his voice was annoying. Highlights: Oh Lord, Give Us Money

Really liked this. Just the right amount of weird and a nice break from generic rock. 4/5.

This started really promisingly, and then it went German.

Rating: 4.8/5 Short Review: Hypnotic, playful, and decades ahead of its time. Holger Czukay treats music like collage. Radio broadcasts, world music, ambient textures, tape manipulation, and groove all drift in and out as if you’re scanning frequencies from another planet. Favorite Track: “Cool in the Pool.” The oddball pop centerpiece. Catchy, funny, and impossible to confuse with anyone else.

Right up my alley although the songs themselves don’t really lead to anywhere

NEIN. the concept of two quite experimental german albums back to back haunts me. but gladly i already have encountered einsturzende neubauten. and i enjoyed blixa and their friends' works! speaking of which you know i am something of a cinephile myself. but this shit just goes on and on and making me confused about its relationship with the films that i watch and i love. so generally i don’t get it although some of the samples are quite interesting. huh. generally its a nein. and a zwei out of fünf.

holdger needs to wrap it up

Carino ma niente di sconvolgente

Destroyer ?

Too many electronica

On the one hand, I really liked this album, and the creativity is overflowing. It is fun, has a great soundscape that is well produced, and the songwriting is experimental but still has a lot of musicality and melody. The only reason I don't give it five stars is because it feels more like an EP than a full album. Even with longer songs, it still feels like a partial work.

Gorgeously weird and wonderful. The hottest day of the year, with a heatwave across the south of the UK. So this absolutely gets bonus points for Cool in the Pool – especially with the vaguely camp German accent. Perfect. Really enjoyed the vague afro-beats rhythm of Persian Love as well. A lovely surprise. There might be days when I'd have hated this I suppose, but not today.

There’s a reason krautrock didn’t really catch on. Interesting in parts, but ultimately lacked zip.

I enjoyed this album. While wary of drawing parallels with other bands, it reminded me of the Durutti Column (will they appear in 1001?). It fuses various influences to create hypnotic electronic dance rhythms.

Ich mag Krautrock nicht

New to me and I really enjoyed it. Fascinating to read across to tracks it has influenced - Donald Fagen surely had Cool in the Pool (brilliantly appropriate on a day that London is breaking new temperature records) in mind when composing Kamakiriad. A fun and surprising 3*

Very cool experimental album - never plays it safe but doesn't bore you to death (sub-40 mins if perfect for this kind of album).

Awful

Some good fun times. I like Cool in the Pool. Not much else

Not my vibe. A lot of random sounds that create a strong sense of atmosphere, but nothing something I’d listen to again. The opening is the closest to an enjoyable track. Rating: 1.5

I have to make the assumption this was put in here by mistake, what the fuck?!

6.5/10

Never heard of this before but really enjoyed it. Very ahead of it's time with the sampling and a pretty unique album.

This was a fun sort of different. If your looking for a mental reset i feel this would do the trick. Lots of variety, and notging that felt dessigned to create discord in the listener.

This is really out if my league ahah, instrumentaly is very good with a lot of analog and synthetizing. Just not for me!

70's experimental Kraut-rock! While my worst fears were not realized, and it's even kind of okay in places, I wont be back for another listen Bye!

No voihan vittu kun oli rasittavaa kuunneltavaa. Ehkä jossain toisessa mielentilassa tällainen häröily olisi voinut vähän viihdyttää, mutta nyt ei toiminut sitten yhtään.

I think I can safely cross off Avant Garde, or whatever they call this, as a genre of music I don’t like. Hard listen this one, there’s obviously an element of skill in making this music, and there were periods of the album that weren’t too bad, but even though I’m sure there’s an audience for this, I’m definitely not it

Ikke min greie i det hele tatt. Kjempedøllt. Sterk 1.

Quite the oddity. I didn't hate it, but didn't enjoy it. Cool in the pool was kinda fun, I guess.

Not great. Kinda terrible. The Persian song doesn't even belong on this album, which is kinda hard to say when it's only 4 songs, but it's definitely out of step. The rest just seems like noise over very simple backing beats.

As a fan (and a practitionerof Musique concrète music composition) this was a pleasant discovery that I had somehow missed. I prefer this to his work in Can. It is clear to me that this album probably had an effect on YELLO, which I adore. While we are quite used to this kind of production skill now, this would have been mind blowing 1979. It also would have been quite difficult without the benefit of digital DAWs and MIDI sequencing. What he manages with superb Tape manipulation and Dictaphone skills is staggering. With all of the rights clearing that would have to be done for all of the samples theses, it would be a painful paperwork chore these days. Doesn't creep me out the way Malcolm McClaren's work would.

Interesting for sure. Didn't enjoy it as much as the CAN stuff, maybe he benefitted from that collaboration with the band.

Wacky! One of the guys from Can doing experimental, silly, fitfully melodic early electro pop. I’m thinking Eno mixed with They Might Be Giants with a dash of Captain Beefheart. The middle eastern influenced song is the least goofy, and therefore the most enduring. 3.5 stars

What did I just listened to? Too random.

Let's cool in the pool :D Did he record all the parts himself? It's like Mr. Holger here decided to just play whatever random shit comes to mind and then just smash all the audiotracks together.

800+ albums in and the weird shit is doing more harm than good.

Just because someone does something weird doesn't mean we all need to hear it. I get this was sampling before sampling was mainstream. I get this guy was in Can. It feels like one of those albums that there's something hiding in there, but the world isn't smart enough to figure it out except for some poncy dude in a black turtleneck sipping bad coffee and unironically smoking a stale Gauloise. It's not boring, though. My rating: 2/5

4 interesting pieces with surprisingly interesting movie collages with dialogue bits thematically linked in the pieces. I would suspect that the first piece completed was Persian Love as it captures the theme perfectly. As a founder of Can, the perfectionist tendencies still appear on this record, his first solo album, and that is what makes this a difficult listening experience for me. The notes are perfect- every single one of them. This leaves the pieces, particularly Hollywood Symphony, a bit cold and lifeless. This is particularly true where these works are intended to be sound collages I.e. you expect some dissonance, some rough edges that are necessary to show that this is music with emotion designed to be listened to by humans and not robots. I think the two longer pieces, Oh Lord, Give Us More Money and the Aforementioned Hollywood Symphony may have played better with some editing and additional vocal elements. It is these same vocal elements that uplift Persian Love - they bring warmth to the rather precise instrumentation. So is the album good? That’s a tough question. In my mind, it’s above average but given the fact that there is much more interesting experimental music out there now, it would be kind of tame by comparison. A long way to say 3/5.

Member of Krautrock band Can - solo effort, splendi musicianship with bent vocals

Quirky. But from this distance, not all *that* quirky.

fav songs: cool in the pool experimental, innovative, playful, wonky 70/100

Oh boy. Looks like I've got another weird one on my hands. I'll be honest: I have no fucking idea what this album could be. I'm getting a Polish vibe from the artist name, though I've unfortunately only listened to a single Polish album (Myslovitz's "Miłość w czasach popkultury"). Given that I'm far from an authority on Polish music, I feel like I'm taking a huge shot in the dark with my prediction. The album cover looks like an early electronic album, whereas the title gives me more of a punk feel. It could honestly be either or, though an electronic album seems more feasible for a solo artist. Here goes. Yup. This was certainly another strange one. I kind of like it, though only very mildly. "Cool in the Pool" is a fun, campy and solid opener, though the rest of the album fails to go the distance. The bass guitars are intricate and engaging at points, though they're quite scattershot and directionless in how they're peppered across this album. The same can be said about the synths. They're vibrant and pleasing, though the ambience of this album constantly snaps and changes without much cohesion. There's also the matter of these tracks being way too fucking long for what they are, though I wasn't at all fatigued by what I was listening to - moreso just underwhelmed. Despite my lack of a reaction to this album, it lights up the part of my brain which wants to understand and gel with this music. There's something aesthetically interesting about this album and what it does which held my attention for most of its runtime, which I assure you is commendable coming from the muddled brain chemistry of a zoomie zoom. Overall, I respect this album for what it sets out to do and I might just return to it in the future for that very reason. Book time. This guy was the bassist and producer for Can. That figures. After Can broke up, Czukay found a creative outlet by playing his bass along with the TV shows he was watching, effectively creating his own improvised soundtracks. This lay the groundwork for Movies. The instrumentals have a prominent African and avant-garde influence as derived from Kwaku Baah (the percussionist of this album) and Karlheinz Stockhausen (a composer who Czukay studied under prior to his career in music). "...Movies was [...] assembled like a film, piecing together different segments of various takes into a unified whole." The album was one of the first to use samples, which were collected over months of surfing the radio and TV. Wikipedia says this album is well-regarded by the few critics that reviewed it and was described as a "cult classic" by The Independent. However, it didn't chart anywhere. I'm favourable to this album. It's certainly a unique and challenging listen, and I suppose it earns some music history cred by virtue of being one of the first albums to utilise sampling. I cosign this inclusion.

Nö. Zeiträuber x.

Liked this a lot. Little weirdo music. Krautrock is great, and I would definitely like to get cool in the pool.

Anonymous

Cool in the Pool

crazy old man, aber ganz fun

Nope.

just a bunch of noodling

Lights, camera, awesome 😊!

Funky, quirky. Long instrumentals with lots of random sounds but not enough to hook me. 3/5

Fascinating album - there’s not a dull moment in the four tracks. Favourite track: Cool in the Pool

I didn’t get it

Nei takk!!

I actually really like Can and was excited for this album, which stated off promisingly enough. But I have zero patience for the self indulgence of 13-minute long experimental tracks like the kind on this album.

Vaagheid is weer eens troef, en Holger is de joker van dienst. Het fliebelt weer alle kanten uit, gekke stemmetjes, rare geluidjes, creatief met keyboard. Gelukkig kunnen Holger en z'n vriendjes wel muziek maken, dat scheelt een slok op een borrel. Dan kan het er allemaal best nog meer door, hoor. Af en toe is het zelfs uitgesproken funky.

We hebben net de geregisseerde chaos van de Beastie Boys gehad. Nu toont de lijst ons dat 'sample madness' van alle tijden is. Op de een of andere manier voelt het wel anders. Bij de Beastie Boys werkt het verrassend goed; bij Holger zie je soms meer een Duitse snorremans in een zolderkamertje voor je. Ach misschien komt het ook gewoon door de techniek die in de tussentijd flink ontwikkeld is. Het is natuurlijk een andere muzikale basis, maar er is meer gelijkenis tussen beide. Zo is ook Holger (muzikaal) soms erg kinderlijk en lijkt ook hij zich niet zo zorgen te maken of zijn zang gelikt is opgenomen. Voor beide aspecten is dezelfde zin exemplarisch: Let's get cool in the pool. Dat ik dat nummer nog nooit voorbij heb horen komen in lijstjes als De foute 100... (Mogelijk, omdat ik die nooit luister). Net als bij de Beastie Boys moet ik zeggen: al die spielerij en afwisseling voorkomt wel dat het ooit saai zal worden.

Duitsers die geen Engels kunnen, maar wel in het Engels gaan proberen te zingen. Of althans, wat ervoor door moet gaan. Dat is echt heel erg cringe! De muziek is tegen het schijtlollige aan: vrolijke zomerse deuntjes met een beetje jolige zang er over heen. Een "cult classic" lees ik. Cult is natuurlijk eigenlijk gewoon heel slecht, maar omdat het zo slecht is, wordt het stiekem toch weer een beetje leuk. Schijtlollig noem ik dat dus. David Byrne van de Talking Heads vond het wel grappig en Holger wordt wel benoemd als iemand die de brug maakte tussen pop en avant-garde. Dat is in principe niet aan mij besteed. Het zit op het randje voor mij en het gaat er net niet over heen, zelfs niet met dat Indische gezwam. Het blijft allemaal net muzikaal genoeg, met fijne gitaren en genoeg ritme om me te vermaken. Ondanks de vele gekke geluidjes en filmsamples, blijft het dus net onder de irritatiegrens. Een klein beetje meer en het is een onverbiddelijke 1, maar nu kan ik het schijtlollige redelijk hebben. Het is net niet genoeg voor een 3, al scheelt het niet veel. Het is toch wel aardig in elkaar gedraaid.

The older I get, the more I enjoy weird music. I'm going to check out more of his stuff.

This sounded like what waiting in a dentists office feels like. Frustrating, confusing, and irrational fear of what’s coming next.

And here I thought I was a cinephile! I didn’t have a bad time with this, and it was wonderfully short. There’s something about Krautrock that I like…but rarely something I love

I don’t think this guy has ever seen a movie

Weird...

A little too weird for me. This might have been cool in Iron Curtain Poland, but my western ears don't connect with it overall. There were some riffs and chunks in there I could hear reverberations of in later electronic music. It would have been much better without the distorted vocals over everything.

Very interesting and also very weird! Worth another lesson I think.

Helt ayt jazz

No

Just slightly too high on the zwonko-meter.

Joyeusement wacky. Le genre de découverte qui me garde intéressé par le projet.

Fun and funky. I think it bridges the accessible with avant- and experimental writing in a way that is endearing. If someone wants to get into experimental music, but isn’t ready for harsh textures or anything overly insane, this would be a good place to start.

no entiendo como esto tiene reviews tan controvertidas, me parece una obra de arte en cuanto a música experimental que juega con el ambiente y la comodidad de quien lo escucha. mis respetos al polaco que creó esto 9/10

70’s Rock

Weird af, but I smiled most of the time, and I will play it again, when life has been uneasy on me.

CAN you dig it. yes i CAN.

First impression (visual): sir is somehow giving Benjamin (mfin Coach) Wade This is good album cover. Fun. I don't usually love an album of mostly samples but love the percussion and it sounds like this was an early sampling endeavor.

Unique

Well this was satisfyingly weird. Sometimes when I'm bored I'll check out international radio stations and tune in to weird German experimental radio stations, and this is the type of thing that is playing a good 80% of the time. Whilst I would've preferred more shorter tracks as the two (relatively) shorter songs kept me hooked the longest, I did actually enjoy this a lot. The synth heavy tunes combined with early sampling techniques feel so of its time, but it all comes together to be quite fun. I don't know how "good" it is in the traditional sense, but I do know I was entertained.

This was wild.

Gefiel mir mehr als Frank Zappa, aber mehr ein Künstlers Künstler

If I were an artist, I might appreciate this album more. But as a casual listener, it sounds like a blend of Frank Zappa and Phish but without the charm of either.

Better than his band: Can. This one a fine bit of nonsense, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Oh man. Is this brilliant or terrible? I kinda hate it. I dislike the cheesy sounding organs and nonsensical sound effects thrown into "Cool In The Pool." It was a weird, off-putting start that didn't really get much better. I kinda get this album and it's uniquely German style weirdness, but I don't think I like it very much. I dont outright hate it, but I don't want to listen to it again. It's this kind of all-over-the-place zaniness that I dislike. There's seemingly no point to it. Little vignettes of nothing. 2/5, a very big meh. Was hoping for something out there that would captivate and hold my attention, but I didn't get that from Movies sadly.

Very good background album

Hated the first song but now I’m into African psychedelic?? Is that what this is??

RATING: 7/10 HIGHLIGHT: Oh Lord, Give Us Money LOWLIGHT: Cool in the Pool

Met my expectations. They were low.

Now we’re talking. This is what I want from this list. Never heard of it, weird, and right up my street. I came back to this one and not sure how I arrived at this rating. not awful but certainly not good enough to listen again.

No idea how you even go from Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi and Future Days to this nonsense.

Okay I was skeptical but I actually thought this was interesting Playlist add: "Cool in the Pool"

OK, I judged this by the cover immediately and I was just not on the mood for whatever this was. I wasn't surprised at all by how it sounded. That said, for some reason, I loved it. Right off the bat, I felt this guy is absolutely taking the piss and I'm here for it. I'm going to give it a wildcard 4 as it just worked for me tonight and I'll come back to it again.

Funky, electronic, experimental with a touch of jazz, is right up my alley so not a lot of complaints. Is it the most memorable? No, but it was just weird enough to capture my attention for the full 40minutes it was on. Apparently he’s mostly known for being in CAN, I did not like Tago Mago at all so maybe I have to revisit it. Although I feel like this has more spunk, pzazz and was just overall more fun to listen to for me.

Not sure what to think about this…maybe that’s the point?

Éternellement prenant.

On some now defunct streaming service I had saved a playlist called "Sexy International Hotel Lounge" or something along those lines. A few of the generator albums I've encountered would have fit right in there. But it never really struck me as art created by people, just a kind of higher class muzak. As with those other albums I enjoyed this reasonable well but couldn't really interface with it as art.

20/05/2026 I have no idea what I've just listened to. Spotify listeners: 27.3k

7/10 Interesting and a bit weird, but still pretty listenable. I enjoy getting discoveries like this from the list.

617/1001 2026.05.19 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑

Weird but mostly enjoyable. Not what I was expecting or normally what I'd listen to.

I like parts of this and other parts had me scratching my head. I probably won't ever listen to it again -- but I am glad I head it once.

Quirky and fun. Weird but not too weird. Definitely worth a listen.

One point for the mullet, one point for the sideburns, one point for the moustache, a bonus point for his passing resemblance to me at points in my life and a point for each weird song making a total of...eight.

I liked the jazzier songs on this album, the others less so.

When this started, I thought it sounded interesting, but it soon devolved into a bunch of unrelated sounds pieced together, which kinda did my head in. That may have been the effect that Holger was going for, but no something I'm really going to listen to again

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I liked the inventive/playfulness of it, but in the end most of it just sounded like someone amusing themself in the studio. Good, but not great.

Young people today can't even comprehend how hard this album would have been to compile and put together. I wouldn't say the songs are the best, but the production for 1979 is fantastic!

Very crazy and pretty cool!

1. pool - 2 2. lord - 2 3. love - 2 4. hollyuuood - 1

I'm sure this may have been important/impactful in it's day but it's just a bunch of loops and corny instrumentals/vocals. Not for me Favorite Track: Persian Love

Less horrible than some of the other experimental albums

I really want to go 4 with this, partly to piss off the Normies, and partly because it's very good. But will I actually listen to it again? Out of the 4 songs, one of them is actively bad, one is okay, and the two long ones are great. But even if I add thise two big boys to my car playlist, I can see me skipping them. So, it has to be a 3. But it's good.

Why are we doing all of this...

Muy bizarro, y una genialidad total. Hizo samples en un momento donde hacerlo no era solo apretar un botoncito y ya, realmente tomó extractos de lugares recónditos y los hizo calzar con su producción musical de forma muy sutil y a veces disruptiva pero sin nada que reclamar Ahora, su música está bien, pero no hubo ningún elemento que hiciera más cautivador el concepto, así que si está bueno, pero sin destacar ningún otro elemento más que los mencionados Reescuchable y compartible

This was interesting to say the least. It was like he used every style and instrument he could find.

Everything musical but the kitchen sink. I heard pieces of big band jazz, The The, Pink Floyd, Bach... Overall, it felt pretty confusing but fun. 3.5/5

Well, I’ll take something interesting any day. I'm not the biggest Can fan, but I liked their first two albums enough. Very well sequenced and nice to listen to. This is good too. "Cool in the Pool" is a nice little song. A good opener, and way better than you'd expect it to be based on what it is. Very like mentally stimulating. And then of course I'm a sucker for a 13-minute krautrock song so I love "Oh Lord, Give Us More Money." I mean it's so nice to listen to. Weird obviously but very nice as a little bit of background stuff, and when he starts raving about "GIVE US MOOOOORRRREEEE MONEYYYYYY!!!! HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!" I really vibed with it. I also really like the throughline of weird samples across this whole album, it gives the entire thing a nice little air of extra weirdness which really helps to transport you somewhere, which I appreciate in an album. "Persian Love" is... kinda wack honestly. I appreciate what it goes for but it's just kinda not there. The last song is fine. I think the big problem is there's just not much personal expression here. The music's awesome, but there's so little behind it. Y'know? That being said I do love parts of it. 7.2/10

Day853 - i thought it was gonna be an ironically goofy album but it was just goofy

I did not like this nor would I ever listen to it again but it was so odd it made me laugh and i liked when he wailed like a distorted baby

This was a great experience. Did I like it? Yes Also did I like it? No

what

Another one where I was on the wrong drugs

It was fine I guess, but really didn’t do much for me.

Kind of interesting sometimes… but mostly just noodling. An electronic version of a jam band. Plus lead dude can’t sing. A 2.

This is what a full-length from Ross Geller would sound like.

Molto interessante!

no quiero ser hater pero no me encantan los álbumes instrumentales y más este que se sintió como ruido en algunas partes

Un disco rarísimo, pero afortunadamente, de los raros buenos. Muy experimental, mucha búsqueda. Me pareció curioso que hay canciones que de pronto odiaba y unos minutos después me descubría amándolas. Una escucha sorprendente. No lo amo aún, pero sí quiero escuchar más cosas de Czukay.

Not something I'd listen to every day but interesting enough

Bonkers, experimental krautrock. Prretty fun.

Most of this is excellent—great vibes, steady groove, really enjoyable—but it crosses the fun/weird line often enough for me not to give it a full 5.

lol it makes this guy was in Can. Cool in the Pool is the cheesiest song in both a good and terrible way. Persian love is sick. A very weird experiment of a record. You hear his prog rock influences, jazz, somem world music, just a bizarare listening experience.

Oddly enjoyable.

Horrible, ni siquiera pude terminar de escuchar un tema.

Way too many genres rolled into one.... didn't care for this at all

This is the type of album I was hoping the generator would throw at me. A founding member of Can made a solo album with early examples of sampling in 1979?!? It was weird, it redefined my understanding of ‘solo albums post-breakup’ and I never would’ve listened to this album if this site didn’t exist.

Album #138 Holger Czukay: Movies I find it funny that the two shorter tracks both have 2 million streams, while the longer tracks are both under 100,000. The first track had me thinking that this guy was Poland’s answer to David Byrne, a really interesting and fun track which wouldn’t sound out of place on a Talking Heads album. The second song started really strongly, but wasn’t able to fully captivate me throughout its entirety. I wasn’t a fan of Persian Love, or the beginning of Hollywood Symphony, but by the end, I thought the track got a lot more interesting. Knowing that this guy is from Can, I definitely respect his musicianship and ambition here, and when this album clicks with me, it is really quite good; however, for the most part, the album just kind of sounds like wankery. Sometimes with experimental music, I can’t tell if I’m just an idiot, or the music is just bad; with Movies, I can tell that the music is good, but I can’t fully embrace it. Maybe that makes me an idiot, or almost one. However, I will say that the two songs that queued up after this album were both great, so at least I got something out of it. Best Tracks: Cool in the Pool, Oh Lord, Give Us More Money, Hollywood Symphony Worst Track: Persian Love Score out of 10: 5.5

Weird

Did not enjoy this or the experience of listening to it, no real sense of direction and the music itself was just everywhere and nowhere all at once

This album was weird but cool. Reading about some of the pioneering stuff this guy was up to in the 70s ramped up the coolness. I did add Hollywood Symphony to my EDM dance track playlist. Pretty great track.

We hate this.

This was cool. Unique and weird in the right ways and I really enjoyed it as a background playlist. Doubt i'll listen to it again but a fun experiment. 7/10

eee no me encantó

es muy raro, tiene muchos collages que digo wtf pero al mismo tiempo no me parecen mal. no se que sentir sobre esto jajaj no se si hace q todo quede bien o mal

3.5

A fun, auditory adventure!

I was surprised to learn that Holger Czukay lived until 2017, as I assumed he had been trampled to death by an angry mob shortly after this record’s release.

It's like when Ross played the keyboard on that Friends episode.

by far one of the most unique albums ive listened to so far

# Playlist Track - Cool in the Pool # Notes - Starts of on a cooky-but-interesting foot, but the super long tracks after just too much for the casual listen. - Cool as a historical curiosity and for the most devout of experimental fans only.

Keep this shit coming man, as a ween fan I love all the weirdness of this, i love weird music and seeing the beauty and art hidden beneath it. And it is clear to see the beauty here. Good stuff mang!

Day 253 Enjoyed song 1 and 3, didn’t enjoy 2 or 4. An odd album Highlight Cool in the pool

Not sure what I was listening to but I liked it.

What a wonderfully weird album. Each track was incredibly distinct in style from one another and each had their quirks to keep things interesting. I’m not sure I enjoyed it per se, but it at least was something quite drastically different from the norm. Got a lot of Zappa/Beefheart vibes from it and, similar to those artists, something o have respect for, even if it’s not the kind of thing I’d typically choose to pick up and listen to.

I've never heard of this guy, but just saw in the Wikipedia article that he was in the group CAN. I first listened to them through this project and really liked their album Future Days. I gave it a 5 stars rating on here - meaning I liked all the songs on that one. So I'm very curious to see how this one is. Thoughts after listening 3 times ... It's interesting. Definitely exploring some good ideas on here. However, it feels a little too much like an experiment and not an attempt to create enjoyable music. The only song on this I'd almost be ok listening to again is "Cool In The Pool". But upon final listening - I realized I don't need to hear it again. It's just not that compelling. On the other songs, there are actually parts that I do like but other parts of them where it just annoys me too much - especially the vocal snippet parts but not just that. I was honestly hoping for a better surprise from this but it just didn't grab me like the CAN album. Liked songs on Spotify: 0/4 Rating: 1/5 (should be zero)

Coooll in zhe pooil

This was … different. I liked the Persian track. I think I can only give it a 2. I appreciate how it influenced some artists but I didn’t love it.

Pretty wild album. His voice was kinda funny. Hollywood Symphony had some of my favorite moments, but Persian Love was also a nice calm listen. 5.8/10

Interesting. Some of the vocal stuff I found kind of annoying but the compositions and uses of sampling were good.

This was a delightful surprise.

Haven't written anything in a while. This one made me pause. On one hand, this album is why I'm here. I want to be exposed to and challenged by music I've never heard before. I like Can, I own a few of their albums, and can clearly hear their influence in many albums I love. I've never listened to any solo work by Holger Czukay. This was going to be fun. Fourteen-year-old me would have been giddy over this record. I'd be so cool (not really) talking about the electronic sophistication and worldly influences of an Eberhard Shoener combined with the sophomoric humour of Robbie Rox. Somewhat older me was not so impressed. This album is both good and original; however, the original is not good, and the good is not original.

It's funky, it's groovy, it's jazzy, reggae and Indian, experimental. It surprised me and sounds like the guy had fun doing it.

Okay. I mean… cool, guys. Got me here. (ntm.)

Demasiado experimental para mi...

A little off beat, but neither annoying nor anger inducing. Will never make my play list though.

Weird. I like it

Weird but enjoyable.

Interesting.

its nice can get a little distracting overall has a nice vibe to it no favs really

Geweldig. Moest even inkomen maar de lange nummers zijn een hemelse trip

Lo escuché mientras hacia lo de morfo

Hated it

What the everloving fuck did I just listen to. I have no words. The Tracey Emin of music. Can you just record a load of random noises over a drum beat and call it music? Here's my idea: a swing drum beat, with animal noises interspersed with nonsense poetry being read in breathless, broken German. Every 37 seconds there is a scratching sound. Once in a while the noise of an airplane flying overhead. Where's my Grammy? FUCK THIS

3.5

#326/1001. While I love Can and I love experimental music in general, this record fails to move me much. It seems there is one idea per song, and then they just extend it for a to long jam. i'd rather have a monotonous 1-2 riff extended over the length of the album. Sorry czukay.

Pretty good. Didn't see that coming!

Experimental and yet quite accessible, Can's drummer Holger Czukay weaves a brilliant tapestry of world music, with space rock and psychedelic overtones. This is such a trippy and groovy album to listen to.

Random and ubiquitous media dialed in on the telly and the transistor; beautifully meshed with bass slaps, synth noodles, and subtle vocals to create a lush soundscape full of whimsical and dramatic twist and turns.

As someone who never really got into Can, I'm clearly not the type of person who's going to understand the Holger Czukay solo album. It's even more out there than Tago Mago's most out-there moments!

Thoroughly enjoyed this album. Second time I listened, I realized that it gave me some Cory Wong vibes, but was kind of surprised that this albums was released all the way back in 1979. If feels really modern, not almost five decades old. 100% recommend. Pretty much the entire album went onto my Liked Songs list.

he mightve been onto something

Couldn't finish a single song. I tried though.

I'm usually all in for art rock, but this one is landing terribly flat. It's not bad music, but I'm finding it outdated. And i believe it's a bad sign for a supposedly avant-garde piece.

German Experimental Art Rock. Quirky as might be expected. The opening track, "Cool in the Pool", reminded me in places of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

This is such a weird mashup of non-sequitur noise that I don't know what to do with it. Some of it is listenable, but cool in the pool makes me want to drown 2.5

Die basslijn bij Cool in the pool is echt heerlijk. Gecombineerd met dat moddervette accent van Holger, ja dit is een krautrock album, daar was nog niet eens 1 volledig nummer voor nodig om dáár achter te komen. Krautrock bevalt me meestal boven gemiddeld goed, het is vreemde, soms experimentele muziek in tegenstelling tot de meer conservatieve normale rock n roll. Oh Lord give us More money daarna begint super vreemd. Blaffende honden en toeterende auto's, maar word daarna een soort jazzy progrock nummer? Verdammt, waarom was het niet alleen dat? Want de 2e helft van het nummer is super vet, alleen door de eerste helft denk ik niet snel da tik het nummer nog eens aan zal zetten. Persian love? Heeeeeeerlijk zomers plaatje. Met de perzische invloeden door het nummer heen ben ik oprecht verbaasd over dit album tot nu toe. Het is bij tijden een soort gigantische mengelmoes, maar het werkt een soort van wel? Alleen de zanger, ik ben geen groot fan van hem. Dat zware Duitse accent ligt er net ff te dik bovenop waardoor je het ook nauwelijks nog zingen kan noemen. Nee, eigenlijk vind ik gewoon elk nummer vet, of minstens een groot deel van elk nummer. Dit is geen perfect album, zeker niet, maar als ik dit album nog 10x zou moeten luisteren dan zou dat geen straf zijn. Wat een reis en wat een lekkere verrassing zo op de dinsdag ochtend. FAVO:Cool in dze pool, Persian Love, Hollywood Symphony

While I respect the innovative use of samples and the artist's history with Can, this solo effort feels too disjointed and experimental to provide a truly cohesive or enjoyable listening experience.

im not woke enough to enjoy this.

Mest irriterande, ibland ok bakgrundsmusik

I am instantly wary of anything prefaced “Art,” but turns out this is just Chic ft Ralf Hütter.

Смешная первая песня, дальше происходит толкинхендинг (также извекстный как мистербанглинг на 3/10)

This is a great listen. Very weird, but entertaining. 4.0/5.0: Great

i didnt love track one but the other three were fantastic. very weird but enjoyable listen.

Listening to the first song I thought this was a German Weird Al. I wish you could give half stars. Terrible.

Ah the 70s

Listen, it’s interesting to hear all the samples and loops, but the music just does nothing for me really.

Like listening to Ross Geller

Weird german music. A very interesting Wikipedia read