Reviews (page 6 of 7)
Why do I need to hear this. I’m tired of these experimental movie albums
This is another one in the "I don't get it" category. There were some cool parts, but it was mostly too scattered and experimental for my taste. I didn't hate it, at least, so that's a win.
I had never heard of this guy (now I know he was in Can) and this album definitely sounds like a product of its time and place. I'm not really into this particular Euro-electronica, but I do appreciate the musique concrete nature of its composition, and I always like voice samples.
What in gods name is this? Reminds me of fake music from a weird SNL skit or a Christopher Guest movie. The end of "Cool in the Pool" in particular. Learning more about him and his influence on electronic movie makes it more impressive, but still feels like a mockumentary.
Nope, not for me.
Weird but nothing sticks with me. Maybe I should listen to Can first.
I’m told by Spotify that this was critically acclaimed when it was released. But… did anyone listen to it since? Wikipedia tells me it’s a cult classic that paved the way for Eno and Byrne’s “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.” Okay… as a huge Talking Heads fan and pretty fond of Brian Eno, that’s another album I’ve never bothered with. (Has anyone else?) I guess the takeaway here is that you have to have an uncommon appreciation for some very obscure music to appreciate this. That sounds like a rare individual but apparently he ended up as an editor of 1001 Albums to Hear Before You Die.
I won’t argue that the album is interesting or even innovative, but it more like background music than something I would intentionally sit down to listen to. The music almost begs you to do something other than enjoy simply listening to it. Though titled Movies, it feels more like a sound effects track than a score
As avant-garde goes, this is listenable, but still of no interest. It's just background.
Kinda groovy? Made me laugh at least. Don't ever need to hear it again but very funny.
Haven't listened to this guy in ages - and it hasn't aged well. His early work was more inventive. This is much less interesting.
Not sure why this deserves a place on this list. I thought the first song was a joke. Nothing about it stands out other than the singer's accent. Not terrible but no need to hear again.
Pretty strange album. It tracks that this guy was in Can. Not for me at all. More of a sound collage than a group of songs.
Was about to say who is this guy and what is this album and why does it sound like that, and then I learned he was from Can and it all makes sense. Idk, this band's stuff just goes over my head. 2.5/5
I get it, but meh.
No thanks.
⭐️⭐️ despite how eccentric and experimental this was, i enjoyed it more than i thought i would. it's unlikely i'd listen to this again in the future, but i'm glad i gave it a spin at least once
Listening to the first track I was laughing at the stupidity of it. I thought this is great, some levity on this list. It soon became apparent that I was wrong and this was actually serious and unintentionally funny. I will give this props for technical work and experimentation seeing as it's from 1979, and there's some great instrumentation buried in there. But the songs don't flow well. A lot of the noises seemed tacked on rather than integrated, and don't fit in with the narrative of the song. It's like the guy just didn't know when to stop.
Wild stuff.
For something released in 2018, it definitely didn’t sound like it! The songs being like 15 minutes long were kinda grueling, but having there being like what 4-5 songs in the album makes it less so. It’s really not my kinda jam, I imagine it as a background track for an older movie or at least a movie set in like the 80s, 90s. But it wasn’t too bad
Let’s get cool Feel like bro was just having a brilliant time sampling all da samples. I respect it what a guy just having a jolly time. Unfortunately tho it is still a bit of nonsense really and It will not be getting above a two for me as I cannot see myself sitting down and listening to this.
Experimental music is hard to rate. There were portions that I really liked, but more that I didn't. Seems like it would have taken a lot of time and effort to make this in the 1970s, so props to him for that.
Didn't really enjoy it. Was all over the place.
This would be very good if you didn't have to listen to the most german accent ever singing. Persian Love is great.
Felt like an acid trip
Started strong then got crazy.
Different but not bad
My initial thought when listening: WTF, is this a joke? Turns out it was, and it wasn't. Experimental, very diverse, with some good music and other stuff I didn't care for. A bit hit or miss.
This would have been better if it had been silent movies.
Got nothing from this
Surely, it meant something to someone. But not to us.
I suppose I can appreciate from a, "where the sample craze started", but for the most part...nah.
✅ Persian Love
I suspect you really had to be there
It was ok
this had some interesting parts to it that felt kind of proggy and cool, but overall it felt too childish without feeling like the childishness was the point
First make a backing beat, then roll some dice every ten seconds to determine what sounds to throw in. There was some good jazz talent in there but it was so sporadic I could never connect to it
WTF.
I thought the first song was interesting, but the album went down hill rapidly after that. Not necessary to listen to.
2* What is this???
Fav song: Hollywood Symphony Probably a bit too experimental for me personally. Oh Lord, Give Us More Money was also pretty interesting, but I find the vocals just a little bit too difficult to listen to.
Not as it redeemable as the Can albums, but still shit
Odd, not bad, just seems a bit all over the place. 2.2
Favorite Track: Persian Love
So its palatable and doesn't hurt my ears but I have absolutely no idea what the purpose of the album is. It is really all over the place and goes from one end of the musical spectrum to another, but with very little purpose or plan.
What in the holy hell did I just listen to. This thing is all over the place. Krautrock is a new one for me. Not sure I’ll be going back to it. 1.5 but I guess I’ll give a 2 because it is interesting and some of the noises tickled my ear holes. I just don’t understand what situation I’m inspired to turn this on.
This is not good but the first track made me chuckle so I am rounding up. 1.75/5
Not entirely sure what this is or why it is under the electronic category.
I don't see myself listening to do this again. It is definitely not bad, just not for me.
Interesting at first but got a bit irritating the more I listened to it and the thought of hearing it a third time didn't appeal at all. Okay but a bit shit 2
Crazy weird and odd. Liked first song Cool in the pool but not the rest of it.
Weird shit…
Honestly, read about this album before listening and was not really enthused to listen. After listening tho, it was better than I expected. Unlike the previous Bryne/Eno record i listened to that was disjointed noise, this at least had some sort of attempt to make music mixed in with the different sampling that at least flowed as a semi coherent musical idea.
Not my favorite. But still pretty good.
A bit too out there for me I think. Need a bit more coherence. Persian love was the best track though. Reminded me of the avalanches in parts though, frontier psychiatrist anyway. 2.5
odd
The spoken word stuff in track two was enough for me to turn it off.
🎧While this is definitely interesting and not bad per se, I can’t see myself revisiting any of it ever again. Czukay was a pioneer of tape loops and sampling, so respect for that.
It's peculiar. It's weird, but ultimately, it's just not good. 2.50/5
Not for me thanks. Extremely weird, and not without merit, but really it was far too irritating, tonally. Constantly too much going on, and every song lasts a million years. I have nothing against this sort of thing, but it ain't for me.
parts of this were GREAT! parts of it
Not as experimental as I was hoping--not as good as I was hoping.
This was......interesting lol The opening track made me feel like this was going to be really goofy, and it was! But being mostly instrumental helped. There were a lot of long passages to get carried away in and I appreciated those for the most part. Curious to hear more from this artist.
Interesting, but very odd.
Meh
Pretty strange album, but interesting nonetheless. Was one of the pioneering albums that used sampling according to Wikipedia. Not a good album to listen to if you are trying to sleep or relax.
It’s a bad sign when I’m 100x more interested in the free jazz, avant-garde pop, and ambient electronica that Spotify autoplayed at the end than anything I heard on the album I just finished listening to in full. I like eccentric, but eccentric is effortless. I hate noodling with the forced intention to sound eccentric. Movies is just noodling. Clearly, Czukay is a capable musician, and when this record catches a beat or develops a funky groove, I start to enjoy it, but it’s all the fucking noodling that inevitably ruins it for me.
I did not know what was going on
Strange.
A pioneer, sure, and a weird journey with an album and an artist I'd never heard of. His voice sounds like Robin Williams at times and that made it a little better. 2/5
2.5 With respect to Can, this did not click for me.
Gear: Abyss DIANA MR (vegan) Artwork: 🎞️🧔⬛ Mix: 😲🙂👌 Musik: 🥨🤪🎸 Wertung: 🎞️🎞️/5
At first I found this was pretty quirky and fun but by the second pass it became abrasive and annoying.
For an album with only 4 songs, this sure felt endless.
I guess he gets some credit for being experimental but it felt too random and arbitrary to me. I got the sense that he was just goofing off and then said "fuck it, let's release that".
Interesting album, but not my fav. 2/5
Experimental, a mesh of many things some of which are not polished. Really not my thing.
Bruh
While I really love CAN, this one sounds and feels like a Krautrock pre-study or demo to something. Apart from the terrible singing, there is also too much aimless noodling involved. For me this is a little too much of nothingness. Some nice moments, though.
I respect the quirky, I’ll-make-whatever-music-I-feel-like-making experimentation, and the fact it sounds like ol’ Holg was having a lot of fun making it. It’s not an album I’ll come back to, though. And do the tracks really need to be so long given they’re not *actually* soundtracking a movie scene?
Some cool ideas. I like the loose improvisational and experimental vibe but think it could have been developed better. Feels like this was intended to be an experimental session where he gets his ideas to develop into songs but he never got around tossing the album for real.
Sounds like you’re 15 and stoned for the first time messing around in your friends basement.
At least it was short
Instumental, como de honololú, pero moderno. Un rollo.
Nope.
Dangerously close to one-star territory, but the end of "Hollywood Sympathy" was enjoyable. Back from the brink.
What was THAT? Definite movie soundtrack vibes. Quite European. Interesting, but not going on repeat at my house. I read some positive reviews so I listened to this album again (its only 39 minutes after all). I think it got worse.
This was odd but not unfriendly. Tuneful base melodies accompanied by random noises and instruments improving over top. That's a choice, and it sounded amateur, and I wouldn't revisit, but not specifically hard to listen to.
Holger Czukay från Can! Gillar ju Can, så hade höga förhoppningar för detta album. Hur mycket jag än vill gilla det, är motståndet lite för stort här. Albumet består av fyra låtar, 'Cool in the Pool' som är en rent utsagt dålig låt om att svalka sig i poolen. Den är lite äcklig på ett roligt sätt, men när jag lyssnar på musik vill jag njuta, inte skratta. Andra och sist låten är 13 respektive 15 minuter långa, experimentella verk som båda innehåller bra delar, men kommer på mig själv med att tappa intresset bitvis. I efterhand vet jag inte vilken som är vilken. Det är inte dåligt, bara inte heller superintressant. Tredje låten, 'Persian Love', är höjdpunkten. Här finns (antar jag) persiska influenser, extremt härligt. Som så många gånger tidigare under det här projektet förstår jag att detta album var banbrytande, och skulle säkert vara häftigare att lyssna på 1979 än vad det är nu. Den pretentiösa delen av mig vill ju också älska det experimentella, tokiga, i soundet, men måste vara ärlig mot mig själv. Det är inte dåligt alls, men det är bara helt okej. Bästa låt: Persian Love
Too all over the place and German for my tastes. The dudes voice comes across as clownish and the music doesn’t really contradict it. I wonder if this supposed to be a soundtrack to a made up film like that other album. Maybe it works that way but eh.
Interesting. I didn't hate it.
On multiple listens the album became somewhat listenable but I cannot shake the thought of a 5-year-old with a soundpad. 2/5
There's a reason this is called "experimental". It was never meant to reach our ears as a fully fledged album. That being said, this wasn't a horrible listen, just a boring one.
Is this another project that we are seeing the full length of? Listened to the 4 song EP on Spotify, and I very much enjoyed the opener “Cool in the Pool” Feels like a bunch of genres thrown into a blender and this was the result. Very very interesting and I will need to dive into this artist more. As far as the rest of the project goes, it just didn’t really hit for me. I don’t think a re-listen will be necessary on this specific EP.
Vraiment spécial, à réécouter.
Love Can. This is not Can. This is Can't, or Don't, or Shouldn't.
Mmmm, didn’t quite know what to make of this to the point that I didn’t completely finish the album. It certainly wasn’t unpleasant and was listenable,2/3 ?
each song had a good half that went off the rails, but I mostly was fine with this. it came very close to scratching the itch that I normally get from shoegazey post rock instrumental bands these days. proto-post-rock is a funny concept.
I enjoyed the Brian Eno album I listened to after this! I wish I could put my finger on why I didn't really like this. I think maybe I'll listen to other work by this artist because it's close to things I like but this one just wasn't the vibe.
It's probably very innovative with the samples and all. To listen to it is another story, the songs linger on. Well, not entirely my cup of tea, even if the music is attractive at times.
The first song was fun and interesting, but then I got bored fast. This album somehow made 39 minutes feel never-ending.
Interesting in parts
Eclectic. "Hollywood Music" has some cool moments.
I would consider parts of this as almost unlistenable - most of the appeal lies in the techniques which I'm sure were innovative. Learning that Holger is one quarter or one fifth of Can puts a new light on this. Also in Persian Love I think I can hear where Takeshi's Cashew have taken their whole stuff from.
This one was too weird for my tastes, not a fan. I couldn’t get through the whole album due to just not feeling this one.
This album didn't move me at all. It was certainly on the more musical side of avant-garde, which I could see being a good thing, but nothing about the music itself nor its experimental nature impressed me. The structure of the album (four songs: short, long, short, long) didn't work well either. I'll let fans of Czukay enjoy this, as it was clearly made for them and not me.
I'm not the type of person that likes experimental music and also not the type of person that likes very long instrumentals pauses, this album is the exact combination of both things, but i don't think that is bad, i can tell that it has potencial, but it's honestely not my thing.
Another new one for me. Streamed it through Roon on a lazy Sunday morning and fell into a light slumber half way through. Not a criticism as I like music to have that effect on me. I wasn’t bored at all as the first couple of tracks before I dropped off had kept my interest but I suppose I eventually gave in to the overall ambient feeling the album has. After the album had finished the Roon algorithm produced some great unknown tracks from the likes of Tuxedomoon, Moebius and the Plank, and Popol Vuh. These are well worth further investigation as is Holger Czukay himself. So from that point of view a worthwhile album to discover.
Had some moments, but not for me.
Atmosphere can only get you so far and all of these tracks are repetitive and too long. Most endurable track: Oh Lord, Give Us More Money.
2.4 This isnt everyday listening for me but I can appreciate the instrumentals and layers A Google search says this album was released in the late 70's not 2018 as the app/website states. That has to bump this up a bit as the time it would take to pull samples and layer everything on tape would be crazy, but i could be wrong. This guy was probably coo-coo for coco-puffs in the real world.
It was okay. Would be better if I was super high.
Meine Güte, was ist das bloss für eine 1001 Albums Liste? Nix gegen Can/Czukay. 2S.
So weird but fun.
German Zappa; or that time you went to an art museum, saw some random splatters on canvas and was told it was a statement piece
tbh i didn't really enjoy this album a lot, it really annoyed me at times. the second track dragged on for ages and i feel like a lot of production choices didn't make sense. i only liked the third track, i loved the electronic take on traditional music, it was really good. i can appreciate the experiment-ability of this whole album, electronic and traditional wise, blending the two together... but i ultimately wasn't a fan :/
Starts off as a German disco. Then the rest is just synthesizer music. It is not good. I will graciously round up.
J'ai écouté cette daube la semaine dernière, et suis bien incapable de vous en toucher deux mots.
progressiv ja, aber instrumentalisierung, stimme, akzent: lieber nicht.
Gut, ist dass Album nicht zu lang...
Ein Album das halt heute etwas schwierig ist mit den zwei langen Songs, den verschiedenen Samples und atonalen Passagen. Aber war sicher aufwändig in der Zeit so etwas aufzunehmen. Doch für mich zuviel Kunstwerk.
Pionnier du sampling. Mélange de pop et d'avant-garde. ça s'écoute bien, mais drôle d'album. 4 chansons dont 1 de 13 et 1 de 15 min. Good vibes.
Its a weird one today. A fusion of jazz, funk, psychadelic rock, afrobeat, and other world music. Holger is apparently one of the founding members of the krautrock band Can. This album doesn't really have any direction. It just kind of ambles about and doesn't really achieve anything. The ideas he had were solid, but he just didn't stick the landing. Favourite songs: Cool in the Pool Least favourite songs: Hollywood Symphony 2/5
Wow et deep cut, men et af dem jeg værdsætter at have hørt! Selvom det sgu var ret mærkeligt. Ved ikke helt hvad jeg skal tænke om det, men jeg var i hvert fald ikke helt overbevist. Ville ha været bedre med Damo Suzuki
Spøjs plade, lyder relativt moderne for en plade fra 79.
Holger, my man! I did not dislike this as much I thought I would. Cool in the Pool is a very good, funky song. The rest of the album was different, but it did not have that annoying, electronic same beat over and over again. There were parts of Hollywood Symphony i thought were pretty good too. Did I hear the Boston Red Sox announce in there? Anyway, this is not really my kind of music, but there were parts I thought were decent and I really did like Cool in Pool. 2.5
2 As goofy as it was, I really didn’t hate the opening track, Cool in the Pool. I’d be lying if I said it didn’t have a sense of charm and catch to it, but unfortunately, it just kind of gets weirder from there. And not weird in a particularly remarkable sort of way, more weird in an “Oh, okay, I guess this is what we’re doing now” sense. I don’t know if I’m missing some context as someone unfamiliar with Can (the acclaimed krautrock band this guy supposedly hails from), but to me, this just kind of felt like a bunch of sound. I definitely wouldn’t describe it as bad (I’ve heard much worse on this list), but I don’t think I could describe this really as anything more than just “music” - it’s not the kind that strikes you in any particular way, but it’s certainly music alright. I suppose if I had to take a more analytical look, I could see how this could described as bridging the gap between pop and experimental, but for me, this is one of those instances where it feels more like a watered down version of each instead of a perfect fusion, and as a result, the two 10+ minute songs here (aka 70% of the album’s runtime), feel like slogs. The usage of samples here is also noteworthy I suppose in that it predates the technique being used in hip hop music, but even still, it’s a reminder that just because you did it first doesn’t automatically mean you did it the best. When summertime rolls back around, I may revisit Cool in the Pool when I feel like being cool in the pool, but outside of that, not sure this one is going to get another listen out of me. Sorry, Holger - maybe I’ll check out your group Can one day.
El baixista de Can fent la seva primera incursió en solitari amb un disc igual d'imprenetrable que els de la seva exbanda. Quatre mini bandes sonores de pelis imaginàries amb multitud d'efectes, samplers, loops.... very arty tot plegat
It’s a strange album and really not anything special. At times it sounded like an amateur messing around with a synthesizer. The last song was chaotic without direction.
I liked some of the songs but overall it was just too long.
Mad, mad and not for me today. Maybe another day it may stick, but I got to the barking and rolled my eyes
Uhhh.... Nah
This is an album that exists, and now I know that.
Just too weird for my blood today.
This sounds like me with my Casio keyboard circa 1990. Nothing more to add, this dude added more than enough bells and whistles and button pushes himself.
This was super weird. It's not bad, but I don't like it.
Als Kölner Urgestein ist mir Holger Czukay natürlich ein Begriff, da nicht zuletzt sein Grab nur wenige Meter Luftlinie zu meiner alten Wohnung in Köln liegt. Seinen Ruhm hat er bekanntlich seinem Bass-Spiel in der Band "Can" zu verdanken. Seine musikalischen Ergüsse aus dem in 1979 erschienenen Werk "Movies" sind ein Paradebeispiel dafür, wie man Helge Schneider musikalisch und textlich inspirieren kann. Experimentell, Chaotisch, innovativ & viel wichtiger: außerhalb jeglicher Norm. Was Holger Czukay - oder "Schnüri" (Rufname in Köln) - an Kreativität in sich getragen hat, lässt die Musiker der heutigen Generation verblüfft zurück. "Get cool now Hey, don't get cool Let's get cool Cool together And leave it cool Cool together Let's get cool" Wen diese Zeilen "kalt" lassen, der hat Holger nie geliebt. Danke für dieses Werk! Anhören werde ich es mir sicherlich nie wieder. 2 von 5. LG
A little unconventional but not interesting to me
I like weird, but this was meandering, weird for the sake of weird, weird
This has to be a joke with some of the squeals and goofy riffs.
Started fun, then got weird but not good weird sadly.
I doubt that I will listen to it again
While I will admit that the early ideas of sampling made some of the pieces more interesting, I still scratched my head a bit at this. The longer songs were an experiment where "you just had to be there, man." But the shorter songs felt more constructed and deliberate. Those worked better. I can't wholly recommend the album as it was just a bit too meandering for me, but there were some bits I liked, and other times I was like "skip a bit, please..."
Maybe it’s because I’m a guitar player but boy the guitar in this record is lacking. Eclectic is a great way to put this record, fun and interesting, but doesn’t really say much. If the instrumental aspects were other worldly I could love this, but it feels like a lesser, shitier version of funk jazz fusion, without the savant musicians.
First song is a keeper
I love Can, but this one didn't really do it for me. "Persian Love" is the highlight. This seems like it would have been more fun to make than to listen to.
Never heard of Holger Czukay before this. The first track, Cool in the Pool, was pure cringe. Second track, Oh Lord, Give Us More Money (at least the first part), must have inspired Ross Geller to write Interplanetary Courtship Ritual, with the random cat meow, dog bark, explosion, etc. sound effects thrown in. Maybe that was revolutionary back in 1979? Persian Love was the only decent track for me. Hollywood Symphony was just a long, dull track that never goes anywhere, with more random sound effects and movie dialog(?)
I do not like free form jazz but this was kind of OK. Still sucked, but not as terrible as I originally thought.
Too weird
Cat: the music is really good and very cool, but HOLY FUCK IS THIS WEIRD AJ: 👎😐
Interesting Album. Glad I tried it, but it's a kind of esoteric that I don't care for.
Interesting to listen to - a proper mixed bag of some fantastisch parts and some pure dross, but probably not something I'd ever revisit.
I just did not get into this one.
Persian Love is weird but good.
How did I fail, nearly two years ago, to write a review about Holger Czukay's "Movies?" And particularly about "Cool in the Pool?" Well, at least it gave me a chance to revisit this strange little album. Is there German music that isn't strange? If so, the 1001 didn't do a very good job of exposing us to it. Though Czukay is from Can, so he's responsible for like 1/2 the German music on the list. This 4-song album is all over the place, with a song that melds Arab and Caribbean sounds, a weird industrial "symphony," and of course, "Cool in the Pool." Which could not help but to evoke laughter and perhaps inadvertently images of "Horton Hears a Who" and "Seussical." We'll have to go searching for Czukay's cool pool somewhere deep in the jungles of Nool.
Another mystery to me how this made the list
It was so weird, but also kinda vibey
Odd and (to these ears/brain) pointless music.
The move in and out of contemporary classical via Persian inflection was interesting. Everything else was kraut-scented experimentation, rote and blown up from EP to LP length.
Turhake, lähentelee kuninkuusluokkaa.
Aika lame ja paikoin ärsyttävä
It was okay but I’m not sure what it was supposed to be.
This album is certainly one of the most experimental things I’ve ever heard, and I really don’t shy away from old psychedelic stuff. The weird samples and horn solos throughout “Cool in the Pool” actually fit together quite nicely and I think I would like the song more if not for the annoying cool and hot callouts, which sucked in jazz and suck in krautrock too. This song is intriguing and I can see how it might have influenced the new age electric sounds and sampling styles, but by todays standards it’s frankly not that good. “Oh Lord Give Us More Money,” on the other hand, is great. The bass line is super engaging for such a busy song, which I feel like you don’t see too much. And the synth is used very effectively for a song old enough that there probably weren’t too many good synth examples out there yet. This song (again with awful vocals) is the high point of the album. Tl;dr: interesting, experimental, clearly influenced some more techno-style artists later than him. But not that good and probably won’t listen again. If I’m lucky I’ll get a trivia question about this album right some day at least.
Present day Holger Czukay: https://youtu.be/T7f9xTPI9eo I didn't like it but think it's at least interesting.
Мешанина
tähän aikaan ei älyluureja ollutkaan! Alistaa meikäpojan.. pakko antaa respect.. avantgarde.. viimeine kapale uskomaton.. konsanaan.. dumbass bitchass sanoisi noin heh viimeinen kappale OLI OK... MUU PASKAA... hollywood symphony
Niet mijn ding
Not as good as Holger Badstuber
I thought I hadn’t heard of Holger Czukay, but a bit of googling shows that he was one of the founders of Can. I have listened to a Can album, and I remember it being quite unusual. If I remember correctly, it was interesting but a bit too zany for my taste. Let’s see how this compares. Songs I already knew: none Favourites: Cool In The Pool Similarly to the Can album I’ve heard, this is an album of normal length, but containing only four songs. Two of these are fairly typical length, while two are much longer. I found Cool In The Pool to be the easiest one to listen to, and was fun to sing along to mimicking Holger’s very German accent. Beyond this, the music was very interestingly put together, but was just a little too far into the weird rather than the wonderful for me. Like some paintings, I can appreciate it as an art form, but I don’t particularly want it in my home.
It could have been worse. Having had Einstürzende Neubauten's "Kollaps" yesterday, I now know the depths to which "gernan art music" can sink. Luckily THIS is not THAT. Unfortunately, this is also not great. It's weird and eclectic and disjointed. It feels a bit like a Frankenstein's monster of an album. A bunch of disparate parts sewn together and zapped with electricity in the hopes of creating some semblance of an album. All that to say, I didn't enjoy it. But it wasn't as bad as it could have been.
Ummm. I think I need to hear that again. Kind of like Frank Zappa (in a way....). 2.5
This was an interesting album. The music itself was just okay and never really excited me. The sun over of people speaking was interesting as I’ve mainly only heard it like that in rap music, specifically madvillany. This wasn’t anything too impressive but I never felt the need to skip any songs which is a plus. Overall I doubt I’d revisit it but it was interesting to hear a few times. 4.1/10
Instumental, como de honololú, pero moderno. Un rollo.
Tää oli hämy eikä oikeen pudonnut meikälle! Liian öö jotenkin levällään. 2/5
Aimless and goofy. I did appreciate the weirdness of it, but not enough of it landed and it felt like a clash of sounds rather than a coherent layering. Ultimately it was just too fucking goofy to really lean into the experimental nature of it, goofy to the point of great annoyance. Fav Track: Hollywood Symphony (most of this song I enjoyed a decent amount, but it still had it's grating moments. 2/5
I did not like this album No I did not It needled my brain While I ate my brot Maybe it is good This I do not know But I am sick of noodles Stupid guitar bro I like that it was weird But mostly weird bad That mad me sad And a little bit mad Fave track: I truly don't remember
Lidt cool men meget weird
This solo album of Holger Czukay from Can is a sort of experiment with electronica and tape loops. Sometimes experiments work out great, this one does not. It sounds outdated and is rather boring.
That was... something I've not heard anything quite like before.
Meh. investing and I love what it started but I just want feeling it
Was a bit bumpy and melancholy for me.
Gillade första låten men i övrigt var det inte särskilt bra.
Nope
I have no words this was something else and not in a good way 😂😭
This album didn't sound horrible but at the same time there was absolutely no purpose or direction whatsoever. It sounded like the artist was playing with random sounds. And the songs were so long for no reason.
I don’t have the right drugs for this album.
i like movies
first time listening
I just... didn't enjoy this.
Parts of this I thought it was going to rule but other parts I had to pause and ask aloud wtf I was listening to
This was inventive and interesting and at the same time weird.
This has its moments, but not enough of them.
The first song was ok in a strange way but afterwards I forgot it was on. Just odd noises and melodies. I don't know how long the album had been over when I finally noticed it was playing "radio based on" songs, lol. Shit, but not gratingly shit. 2/5.
I don't get it.
Wat is dit voor hopeloze muzak
Tres eclate, mais la chanson de eprse est tres bonne. 3 trop d.impro special et chanson un peu longue. 2.75
Not terrible, but forgettable.
Lidt skørt avant-garde poprock, ved sgu ikke helt hvad det er
4/10. The instrumental parts were pretty good sometimes, but much of the rest was actively irritating.
Really weird. Too weird. Musically interesting(?). Do not understand the painful wailing on Give Us More Money or the whole idea of Persian Love. Probably like a 1.5. Best song: Cool in the Pool(???)
Es curioso como funciona esto de las influencias. Un disco puede ser la cosa mas extraña a los oídos modernos, pero basta con que haya sido escuchado por un artista en ciernes para que cualquier aspecto que le ha llamado la atención se contagie como se contagia una idea. Como un meme. Imagino que algo así ha pasado con este disco, pero el sitio proporciona poca información al respecto y no tengo el libro en mi poder. El disco está compuesto de 4 temas que varían en duración, siendo el tercero, Persian Love, el único que me ha gustado. El resto los califico como experimentos no exitosos, intentos de exploración que no terminan de cuajar.
This was... Interesting. Not actually GOOD, mind. Avant garde noodly meandering funk almost? Although it covers quite a few genres, I suppose. And it definitely has really cool moments, I think. But 40 minutes of it? Nah.
holdger needs to wrap it up
There’s a reason krautrock didn’t really catch on. Interesting in parts, but ultimately lacked zip.
Ich mag Krautrock nicht
Awful
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?!
No voihan vittu kun oli rasittavaa kuunneltavaa. Ehkä jossain toisessa mielentilassa tällainen häröily olisi voinut vähän viihdyttää, mutta nyt ei toiminut sitten yhtään.
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.
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.
Nö. Zeiträuber x.
Nope.
I didn’t get it
This sounded like what waiting in a dentists office feels like. Frustrating, confusing, and irrational fear of what’s coming next.
I don’t think this guy has ever seen a movie
Weird...
Helt ayt jazz
No
No idea how you even go from Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi and Future Days to this nonsense.
Not sure what to think about this…maybe that’s the point?
This is what a full-length from Ross Geller would sound like.
Horrible, ni siquiera pude terminar de escuchar un tema.
Way too many genres rolled into one.... didn't care for this at all
We hate this.
eee no me encantó
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.
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)
Demasiado experimental para mi...
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
Couldn't finish a single song. I tried though.
im not woke enough to enjoy this.
Listening to the first song I thought this was a German Weird Al. I wish you could give half stars. Terrible.
Like listening to Ross Geller
No thank you
I like it when tjis project throws up something i have never heard of and this is just that. My initial thoughts on this album was that i didn’t mind the music, but the ‘vocals’ were just irritating. That said even the music felt a bit repetitive by the end of track 1, although there was a bot of variety in the random noises in its final minute. Not sure if it was Apple music or the actual album, but the change of tracks was quite harsh and badly edited. Track 2 starts very slowly and as my eyes glance toward the track length …and the appearance of some synths i begin to lose all hope. It does however pick up with the introduction of the spoken samples. However, all hope is dashed again with constant fading out and then in toward the end of the track. Track 3 was far more efor large parts until the vocals dropped off and then it was more of the same shit. Least said about track 4 the better, with again the spoken samples (i keep referring to these bits as samples but assume they are fake samples created for the album) are ss close to highlights as you get
I thought this was a parody album at first. I so wish it was.
This album seems to come from the school of thought that the more actively unpleasant you make your music the deeper it is. Just when you think the music becomes tolerable Holger inserts some stupid sound effect or squealing noise for some fuck off reason. The only halfway listenable track on here is Persian Love (which not coincidentally is also the only track without his 'singing'), and even that barely rises above the level of cheap orientalism. 'Oh', you may say, 'It paved the way for sampling in music!' So what? Check out Buchanan & Goodman's break-in records from about 2 decades before this was released; they use extensive sampling, and they're a lot more funny and interesting to boot.
Not a fan!
There's plenty of stuff I just don't care about or that doesn't grab me, but I think I actively hated this album. More than any of the other 70s-ish experimental stuff on this list, this felt like a guy noodling around in a self-important way and making corny sounds.
I want to give this a 1 for being a torturous experience, but a 5 for having the balls to be it. I flipped a coin. 1 was Heads. Sorry.
How are two songs making up half of the length of this album? Just how? Also I find it funny that exactly those songs have the least plays. What the actual fuck is going on? Like in all honesty. I hated his band, Can. It seems his solo career isn't any better. I don't even have anything to say about this album. Just keep it as far away from me as possible. God I hope this is the last time I have to listen to this guy or his band or anyone else involved in the making of this trash. Robert why did you make this list? Why? Just to see us suffer? Isn't it enough that God has cast us aside and abandoned us? WHY torment us further? If there is a hell then this list is for sure played on repeat there.
“Cool… cool… cool in the pool”
Really not the vibe I was hoping for today
I do not get this album nor appreciate it. At times it sounds like a high school orchestra in a music pit for a school musical; at other times it sounds like a soundtrack song from a B movie. Pass.
Not my type of music at all
meh
Im on a differnt planet to Holgar
WTF did I just listen to?! Was this like a spoof band from a Borat movie?
2/10
Interesting
21.
not the biggest fan of small album long song
orrible
Why is this here?
Nope
The former bassist for Can is mostly a one-man band on this record but proves himself to be a master of none here. "Cool In The Pool" gets this record off to a terrible start - it's a sloppy and poorly-recorded jam with random vocal and instrumental bits layered on top with little rhyme or reason. Second track "Oh Lord, Give Us More Money" is super-loose prog-ish rock that wanders around for a considerable amount of time without really going anywhere. (Recording tape must have been cheap in Germany in the 70s because *man* do the members of Can like to use mountains of it.) The bits of "sampled" dialogue that appear throughout the track also don't add up to much of anything. On "Persian Love" the taped-off-the-radio vocals are ill-fitted to the chirpy (and repetitive) backing track. Closing track "Hollywood Symphony" isn't much different than "Oh Lord" in that it rambles in a haphazard fashion for 15 minutes before finally (and thankfully) conking out. This album is supposedly one of the first rock records to incorporate found sounds but the whole thing is so poorly executed that it hardly matters.
T - the question is why? E - eager to skip every song R - really bad R - really, really bad I - I couldn’t listen to a single song in its entirety B - bullshit. Self indulgent bullshit L - likely scarred from this experience E
Nope nope.
That was certainly a combination of sounds that someone recorded.
p427. 1979. 1 star. 4 tracks of samples, synths and ambient "music", including two 13+ minute monstrosities. Horribly dated and irrelevant. WTF is this doing on the list?
Coula been good if it wasn't for the crap singing. No way this came from the leader of Can... I'm shocked and heartbroken...
I wish this album had opened with Persian Love instead of the Cool in the Pool nonsense, which just put me in a bad mood. Remove the lyrics and incoherent samples from Hollywood Symphony and you have a good track.
Couldn’t listen to this album. Very repellent
not that good and not essential
Not good
Couldn’t get into it at all
Weird. Just very weird
what the fuck
Knew this would be bad when I saw it was a 40 minute album made up of 4 tracks. Occasional moments of musical interest dispersed amongst a plethora of incoherent noise
Didn't have to listen to this before I die.
Crap garbo
Terrible. It was only four songs, and it was too long.
That was a waste of 10 minutes. Weird, silly. Like a curious cat stuck in a piano.
1.25
Scattered among the tuneless noodling, this had a few minutes of grooves I enjoyed, but not enough to raise it to a 2.
Is this a parody of Shaft? A very campy parody? 'cause that's what it sounds like. If it's serious, it's seriously bad. Some parts are completely out of sync. The funny accent is only funny if it's intended to be funny.
ugh
Tried and did not like
I don’t know if this album is experimental or influential because I’m kind of tired of all the influential albums out there. This particular experimental album is just really bad. I don’t know what the Hollywood Symphony is supposed to be and Persian love is an endless parade of bubbly notes. Essentially the album is boring, trite, and unlistenable.
funky
For a minute, I thought this might be okay. Got me!
Just didn’t do much for me, a bit too much and just didn’t really sound all too good, felt like nothing fit together coherently if that makes sense. Honestly 1 star
Ass
Cool in the pool algjör banger en hitt fannst mér mjög leiðinlegt
I really tried to get into this, give it my all and everything. I like the funky grooves of the first track, but halfway into the rest of the tracks, I was waiting for it to be over.
Honestly I couldn't listen to it, I just hated it. I spent about 5 minutes listening and skipping ahead and I hated it the whole time.
Not a fan. Too experimental but still better than jazz.
Some of the melodies were quite good but overall, very weird. Not for me
Nicht mein Geschmack
I have no idea what I listened to.
Didn't get through it - too weird
ass
Crap
I'm not an avant garde person.
Weird and fun but too weird and not enough fun.
Garbage.
It's ok that I never heard about this guy. It seems to be something like 'The Emporer's New Clothings'. Clearly not necessary to hear before I die.