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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.

Awesome and weird

parts of this were GREAT! parts of it

3.5

The songs were quite long, but I also didn’t hate it? I actually liked it a decent amount, a bit quirky and groovy.

Dreamy. Proggy. Jammy. Synthy. Groovy. Edgy. Pokemony. MF-Doomy. This is just straight up cool. Spotify says 2015, but this was released in 1976, post-Can. Led me to Kraut-Rock, and I wonder which Kraut album will feature on this list. This album is fucking awesome. Made my body move in its own way. Felt like a slinky trapped in a hamster ball floating down a lazy river of rainbow water. A little tiny gem for sure. Fav track: Hollywood Symphony

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.

Noioso

Very weird clearly some strange men but I thought it was silly and enjoyable

This was very very weird but I actually quit enjoyed it 3/5

Bizarrely enjoyable

I felt like in a movie. It met my expectations

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.

I really didn't like "cool in the pool", but the rest of the tracks were quite nice. Not something I would listen to again though.

It’s kind of wild to think that Can may have acted as a force to *reign in* Holger Czukay, if the experimental madness on “Movies” is any indication of where he could have gone with them. An absolutely brilliant record.

Movies by Holger Czukay. It's different, and that's about the only positive thing I can say about this. I feel like I've made the review about a kid smashing his face into his new Casio keyboard before, but it really applies here, pigs onik, thunder claps, sirens wail, man hums and it all gets put together under the thinly veiled noise that it's claiming is 'music". One of the worst things I've listened to I turned it off

Quite enjoyed this. Easy nice listen 6/10

++: Cool in the Pool +: Oh Lord, Give Us More Money, Persian Love, Hollywood Symphony 7,9/10

Ok. Not my jam, but well done.

This is wild.

Blind album and artist. Such a weird name for an album, but its fits because this album is very weird. Trippy. Weeeoooooaaaa but unique.

come on

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.

Where has this been all my life. Spotify kept the higs coming on a Czukay radio afterwards as well.

Incredible display of production techniques from live recordings, and sampling to electronic sounds, especially for the 70s. The genre blending was really exciting. Persian Love had me feeling like Jimmy Buffett was Under the Sea off the coasts of India. While I overall wished for a little more cohesion across the entire album and am not the biggest fan of 15 minute songs, the musicality is top notch and it's full of surprises in being able to transition from moment to moment seamlessly. Even if it feels like it doesn't fully land anywhere, the ride was enjoyable throughout. One of the more exciting discoveries of this list so far.

I was really hoping this would grow on me on second listen. It hasn’t. I get it - he is ahead of his time with sampling etc but this is just a mish mash of sounds and weirdness. I thought of the Orb at times, but they have a more ambient sounds that appeals to me

Not for me. Didn’t really like any of the Songs.

Toilet sounds

This absolutely starts out as part of the soundtrack to a bad teen comedy, being the incidental music that plays when the creepy German hostel owner encourages "European style" swimming. Fortunately, that's only the case for the first track and it gets considerably better as the platter spins on. By track 3 we start to get influences from the Indian subcontinent, and that's a good thing. I won't lie, I prefer Can, but this will probably get a few listens - perhaps not the first track though.

All over the place; too experimental. 1/5

"Movies" is second solo studio album by co-founder of Krautrock group Can Holger Czukay. Experimental rock, art rock and electronic rock are the Wiki-listed genres. Yes, they fit. It is considered a cult classic for its use of media samples from film, TV and short wave and apparently paved the way for later projects such as David Byrne and Brian Eno's "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts." The album was self-produced and self-mixed and Czukay plays a lot the instruments including vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards and synthesizers. Guitar, a horn sample and a disco dance beat open the album and the song "Cool in the Pool." This is light and fun. Czukay repeating "Cool in the Pool" in his German accent... pretty funny. Various noise samples - guitar, guys talking, an opera singer. "Oh Lord, Give Us More Money" gets right into ambient and soft jazz territory...a Spanish-sounding guitar. The pace changes becoming more dramatic. Some different samples including movie voices, a dog barking. A weird voice is repeating "Give us money." A sample of an Iranian singer opens "Persian Love." There's Middle Eastern-sounding guitar, synths and an electronic beat. More Farsi voice samples - talking, laughing, singing. "Hollywood Symphony" closes the album and as you could imagine a big symphony opens the song. Beat changes throughout including into a rock one. Czukay focuses on using English-speaking movie samples. Yeah, this album was interesting. It was light and wacky. Dramatic at times. Musical style changes through a few of the songs: that seems to be theme the randomizer is using on me this week. I heard electronic, ambient, movie soundtrack-loke and new age jazz. The use of samples was impressive especially given the technology at the time. I thought two of the four songs were unnecessarily too long but, overall, an enjoyable listen.

I did not know what was going on

An interesting and strange project from one of the members of Can. Didn’t resonate with me anywhere near as much as any of the Can albums I’ve listened to, and the vocals were nowhere near as strong as Damo Suzuki’s, but it was still quite fun and groovy as heck as one would expect

When the Rock is Extra-Krauty 👌

Not my jam

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

Unsurprisingly this is very Can. Bits that's a good thing. It's a bit uneven but requires repeated listens. Quirky enjoyable stuff.

Not unpleasant but nothing super compelling to get me to listen again

Can is a band I have a ton of interest in. I’ve had to actually hold off on diving head first into their most popular records because I want my first listens to be through the context of this list. I assumed upon first glance that Holger Czukay was a much smaller artist, because the name did not stand out to me. A quick Google search informed me that he was one of the founding members of Can. Which immediately piqued my interest. I’ve found that the way things often trend with these kinds of albums is not great. Rarely does an artist break away from their band to create something on their own and find the same success. A good example would be The Nightfly by Donald Fagen. I wouldn’t put that anywhere close to the best material from Steely Dan. So I imagined the same thing would happen here. Except this is less of a solo album than you might think. Because I’m pretty sure every major contributing member of Can appears in some capacity on this album. Which should mean this is another great outing from a sick band. And there isn’t really anything inherently wrong with any of the four songs on this album. They were all varied enough to keep me interested. And I always appreciate some longer songs, of which this record has two. And those two are most definitely the best this has to offer. Specifically the first of the two. Oh Lord Give Us More Money is actually pretty sick. Hollywood Symphony isn’t that bad, but admittedly it sounds like the band trying to fit as much of themselves into the span of 15 minutes. Cool in the Pool is like a pseudo-disco krautrock combo. And the band themselves are still on their A-game. Can is known for being incredibly influential and forward thinking. And the way they used sampling was completely unlike anything else of the era. It’s just that something about these songs feels lacking. Even if they are varied and interesting, they struggled to hold my attention for very long as the band noodled and jammed along. I like music that sets out to challenge the listener in some way, like experimental rock. And I enjoy seeing its presence on this list. But that doesn’t always mean the albums are all that good. Rating: 5/10

9/11/24. Interesting album, loved the sounds and mix of rock and avant garde. Definitely something you can jam to if you love instrumentals, which includes me!

Started out interesting, then....

I only knew Cool in the pool, but the rest of the record is so much better!

This is pretty good, I like to be cool in the pool. Certainly interesting and fresh sounding even today.

Weirdly awesome, and awesomely weird! Amazingly mature use of sampling for 1979 - prefigures a whole bunch of genres. The video for "Cool in the Pool" is a true oddity, and well worth seeking out. Turns out I was familiar with that track (and one other from a different album) from the "Morvern Callar" soundtrack. Loved this, and definitely need to dig through the rest of his discography! Fave track - "Cool in the Pool" for something a little poppy, "Oh Lord Give Us More Money" for feeling like a voyage.

Sehr interessantes Basiswerk der elektronischen Musik aus 1979. Experiment gelungen. Konzeptionell gutes und aus der Nachbarstadt Cologne. Wiederhören um es zu verstehen und geniessen wir empfohlen.

Oh wow, it is like a weird parody of German pop. Or is this actually German pop?

Interesting, and I am glad it was served up to me. However I can't see myself going back to it.

Right off the bat weird, melodic and beautiful. Growing increasingly weird through the album. A lot of different music styles layered, some island sounding rhythms with prog rock guitar and sound clips from tv shows or movies all playing out like you’re temporarily schizophrenic. A very unique listening experience but overall enjoyable.

2.5 With respect to Can, this did not click for me.

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This is weird - but still kind of funny. I can’t decide if he’s just joking, or if he’s serious though. I reminds me of Ross from Friends playing on his keyboard

Consistently interesting and the performances were great. This was a nice surprise!

For German “electronic,” this was surprisingly up there with my taste. Great background music while I was coding.

This is strange, unique, and original. Sometimes endearingly so and sometimes annoyingly. 3/5

For fans of experiment, mash up or, hell, breakcorefans taking opium. This one hell of an album, flirting with everything from pop to classical and even Arabic music.

At first I found this was pretty quirky and fun but by the second pass it became abrasive and annoying.

Odd and offbeat but I'm rather odd and offbeat so I didn't mind this. Won't listen to it all the time but it might sneak in there every now and then. Glad I was exposed to this.

I like electronic music. As a relatively new art form, know that there is a certain degree of “you have to walk before you can run.“ This, however, is less “walk before you can run,“ and more “crawl out of the primordial ooze.” Although I greatly appreciate the pioneers that paved the way for the great electronic music that I’m able to listen to today, That appreciation does not make this weird, early German electronic noise easier to listen to.

3.75

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".

Áhugavert. Mjög 70s þýskt.

I loved this one a lot. Maybe even more than some Can.

Interesting album, but not my fav. 2/5

surprisingly good

Experimental, a mesh of many things some of which are not polished. Really not my thing.

this was... wild, weird, fun, annoying. :D

Weird but neat. 3/5

Bruh

Ohhh, this guy was a member of Can. That makes more sense. Listening to it, it has the air of "one take", just kind of messing around in the studio and stamping "good enough" on whatever parts sounded the best. I was wondering how this made it on here without a lot of name recognition. The songs rise and fall and then just kind of... end. It's kind of okay? But I think it fails the main criteria: I don't think I needed to hear a guy fucking around in the studio before I died.

This is one of those that reminds me of why I am doing this. Never heard of it before. Never will listen to it again, but glad I have this once.

pretty cool need to give it a better listen tho

Certainly not a bad record but is the epitome of navel gazing.

Weird but in a kinda good way

It was a bit too weird

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.

endearingly eccentric

Kind of cool, but not something I would ever return to.

When I saw the date in Spotify as 2016 I did not question it, this sounds so futuristic it could have come out in 2216 rather than its actual release of 1979. It’s like futuristic world music, with random found sounds and this beautiful guitar throughout. Reminds me of The Durutti Column. A bit surprised I hadn’t heard this referenced as an influence for 2010s indie rock. It’s a little overly eccentric to be in the upper echelons, buts it’s an interesting entry nonetheless.

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?

FIRE 10/10

Interesting music but not my cup of tea

This was cool, something totally different that I'd never heard of before.

Fascinating cut and paste noodling.

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

The roots of ambient music by that guy from Can, eh? Be still, my atonal, asynchronous heart. Or don’t. I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.

Weird, kinda groovy - good car trip album

Rounding up but this album is pretty fun. Takes you all over for a nice ride.

Interesting but so tiring. I dislike the cultural appropriation.

Finally, something weird that is also entertaining. This is an album you will either love or hate, but goodness me, is it an experience. I fall into the camp of 'surprisingly enjoyed the weirdness'. It is just the most or the top krautrock I have heard so far. It is ridiculous, it is wacky, it takes you on a very confusing aural adventure, but it put a smile on my face to the point I feel like I have to give it 4 stars for both effort, and the joy it gave me.

I have a passing familiarity with Can, but I'd never heard Holger Czukay's mane before. "Movies" is very eclectic, but always musical, which is a lot more than I can say for some of the other, stranger albums I've reviewed so far. It's interesting and pleasant, but also not really moving in any way.

Juvenile

Instumental, como de honololú, pero moderno. Un rollo.

Well... This is definitely something else entirely different. It scratches an itch I didn't know I had. Eclectic and full of possibilities.

Nope.

This album took me a few minutes to get into. To be honest I nearly switched it off for another time as I thought I wasn't in the mood. Then it grabbed me. Not knowing Holger Czukay was from Can, I started to think this was folk music take on Kraut Rock. F'ing mesmerising stuff. I was kind of upset when it ended as only about 28 minutes had passed. Felt like hours but in a good way

hell yeah that's what I'm here for

Easy listening. Enjoyable album and would listen to again

Well, that was what you might expect German electronic music from 1979 to sound like. I was impressed that he’s still making music today

Ok, funky trouble

Never heard of this artist, or this album, or any of this material, but I liked it and thought it was a good listen.

Weird but oddly great. It was like pre-techno if that makes sense. Definitely not mad that I had to listen to this.

great background working, and sure that Eno must have been listening to this. Great touches of quirkiness and humour in the samples. Good choice for this list.

Dangerously close to one-star territory, but the end of "Hollywood Sympathy" was enjoyable. Back from the brink.

Made me think of a high school music student sitting down to compose their random thoughts.

What the hell was that?

First time hearing this album. I likedbit

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.

Krautrock jammin

pretty good

This album photo is not doing dude's hairline any favours. If he wanted to look balding, well, he got his wish!

did not expect to love this but I did! gonna have to check out can

30/100 My first german album :) => Aber es ist Scheiße :( I know what he is trying to do here and the silly twist sometimes works but never warrants the long song lengths. I have no idea how this one made the list of 1001 albums you NEED to hear.

I was a little scared at first because of the first couple lines of the first song…but I actually ended up liking this. A little short but very groovy.

Trippy but in a fun way. I felt like I was in the movies listening to these, so bravo.

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.

Not exactly what I expected, but interesting and diverting nonetheless.

This was an interesting listen. Cool In the Pool is an interesting juxtaposition with the other songs on the album. I like his voice, and appreciated the experimental nature of the album. Oh Lord and Persian Love we're not as interesting to me as cool in the pool and Hollywood. 3.4/5 -> 3/5

I love Can, and had no idea Holger did solo stuff. This is so delightfully weird.

Kieran found this stressful, I kind of liked it. Didn't finish.

Not worth reviewing x

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

Not for me.

You know what I enjoyed this. Saw a straight line from this to LCD Soundsystem

Very pleasantly surprised by this artist that I’ve never heard of! The music is sorta ethereal in the way that it’s very jammy and formless, with a variety of sounds in each song.

Definitely not my style, but a fun listen

Surprisingly interesting. It was daft at times, but genuinely gripping at others.

So strange! But I liked it.

Quite charming and varied, with so many different sounds at play. A great example of why this project is brilliant as now I'm excited to listen to some of Can's music whom I had never heard of prior to this. The tone jumps all over the place but always remains interesting and heartfelt oddly enough. 07/06/24

This is the kind of album I could see myself revisiting when I have the time and capacity to chew on it. When I listened to it yesterday I found it a little too ambient even for my tastes. I like the format and the mustache.

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.

I had a good time listening to this. I was giggling so much at the zany random sounds that Tatiania would yell at me from two rooms away telling me to stop.

Bonkers vibes from the big man. Can elements, sampling, global sounds, surreal vocals and other effects - all in all a compelling listen.

My cup of tea this

A rather weird album, but not really that bad. Not necessarily my thing, but I could find elements that I enjoyed and it wasn't annoying. 3/5

Meh

Weird album. Genre blend with elements from jazz, blues, rock, pop, funk and probably more. Lots of story telling/talking.

A strange eclectic romp that combines world music with the playful-sterile synth sounds of 80s-90s training music muzak, kind of like someone started pushing a bunch of random soundboard buttons at the same time. Somehow, I feel like this album is poking fun at me. 3.5/5

Interesting. I didn't hate it.

I know nothing or Holger Czukay, but he must have gone (*Hugh Grant voice on*) quite mad. This is so, so weird, but kinda charming and cool. Like Ross Gellar's music if Ross Gellar was a talented musician. Rating: 3.5/5 Playlist track: Cool in the Pool Date listened: 29/05/24

Don’t hate it. But don’t love it. It’s weird.

On multiple listens the album became somewhat listenable but I cannot shake the thought of a 5-year-old with a soundpad. 2/5

Art rock, krautrock. Rhythmic and warm, but very weird. It was cool and experimental, was not what I expected. Not super familiar with the genres but it was great. Ambient, rock, and soundscapes all in one album. Not a huge fan of having a 40 minute album spread between only 4 songs. Might revisit. 4/5

Well for 1979 this is pretty funky although not perhaps as unique since there were a lot of artists doing odd things with noises at the time. Having said that there are some good passages that engage your interest but equally other bits that don't

I quite loved the opening of this album with the quirky "Cool in the Pool." I was not surprised to learn that Holger Czukay had been a founder of Can as I listened to the rest. It's not something easy to describe, but it was worth listening to.

Okay, I could work to this. It was not amazing to me, but maybe that is because we have heard such a variety of electronic music, and maybe it was not as cool in the pool as some of the others for me.

Album #983 may be the one that broke me. 900 albums ago, I might've been able to give this more of a chance. But today I was just bored and irritated and had to keep reminding myself that my participation in this listening project is voluntary. 900 albums ago, I had points to give for "uniqueness" but I think I've heard this kind of "uniqueness" before which isn't a great feature of "uniqueness." Is music a thing I used to like? Was it ever anything but an "obligation"? I don't know anymore. Another day, another mood, and maybe I could be more generous. But not today.

This is a wack-a-doo change of pace that was most welcome after several uninspiring selections. Weird German fun!

Like listening to a bad movie you’ve never seen before

very experimental but funky and cool. Didnt get bored once. nice listen

Ég er svag fyrir Cool in the pool, sem ég hef oft heyrt, og næstu tveimur lögum á eftir, sem ég þekkt ekki áður). Hollywood symphony er síst. Margt skrýtið og skemmtilegt og gaman að hlusta, en ég fæ mig nú ekki til að henda meira en þrist á hann Holgeir eftir tvær hlustanir.

👍 little German boy is experimenting

A cool little surprise. I could stand to come back to this. 3.5/5

An absolutely terrible waste of 40 mins. I don't care if Holger Czukay is considered a pioneer for his sampling, this album is incoherent and awful. I'd almost believe if this was made as a joke, but I definitely feel like this is supposed to be taken as a serious record.

I love experimental music. I love silly music. But when it comes along, it needs to be pushing something truly well produced and unique. I just don't get that from these rambling and silly songs.

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.

This felt like the incoherent (yet ambitious) stream of consciousness ramblings of a musician coming down from a long acid trip. It has all the ingredients of something I should like, but the execution is a huge miss for me. Not a fan.

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.

I love love love this. Seeing the origins of sampling and plunderphonics my favorite genre makes me so so happy and it’s jazz electronic fusion is so interesting. I feel a new arc coming

Oh, for fuck's sake, really?

Wild vibes but sort of a groove

Better than “Can” still odd though. Guess that is what made it listenable. Maybe 3.5?

Rate it. Does make me want to soundtrack a movie

Vraiment spécial, à réécouter.

Interesting - I suspect drugs were involved

Love Can. This is not Can. This is Can't, or Don't, or Shouldn't.

we’re back in the Can Universe with: MOVIES After Tago Mago & Phaedra, the other German 70s albums this month, my bias- sorry, Vorurteile- expected more sinister, heavy overtures. My mistake, Czukay’s solo outing is cheeky & airy, though I suppose sometimes laden with prog grandeur. I enjoyed Movies’s approach to what would later be known as plunderphonics, even as it harkens back to the sound collages of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper & the White Album. At the same time, I might appreciate it for what it represents in musical evolution more than for its songs. Though there are many interesting directions taken, the song lengths are- surprise, surprise- testing, the samples inscrutable or just absurd, and the vocals sometimes *out of pocket*. Yet I’m having more fun in the 2nd listen, which I didn’t think I needed so soon after the first. A flawed, messy experiment, and yet I wouldn’t have it any other way. Maybe because it sounds like how my brain feels after 700-800 random albums. HL: “Persian Love”, “Hollywood Symphony” April 29, 2024

A bit noisy, weird sounds

Surprisingly amazing jawn

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 ?

Liked the idea of something I'd completely never heard before. Didn't particularly like the music but extra points for originality.

Weird album that combined being very difficult to listen to with being very very good to do work while listening to.

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.

Woah, I thought I was going to hate this, but I actually enjoyed it quite a bit! It was great music to walk to and kind of space out during. A lot of art rock that I've heard has been quite unpleasant to listen to, but there was never any moment where I wasn't enjoying this.

this was annoying but the goofy synths mean i almost don't care

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.

A new one for me. A mind blending and genre busting output over four girthy songs. Something to revisit but a pleasant first experience.

New album for me, not in the same league as Can, but sounded great for most part and with all the innovative sampling I can see why it was included in the list.

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.

Regis was a surprising good time! Never heard of this guy, or Can, or Krautrock for that matter. It felt like a very modern album with the world influence and sampling. Very cool!

I was ready for another suck electronic album but this is actually pretty cool and interesting. Electronic meets progressive with some Zappa sensibilities

The kind of music Noel fielding puts on before he requests £4.37 from the 18 year old lass he gave a line to because she wouldn't put on a toga and cowboy hat while playing a kazoo

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

What the hell was that

Eclectic. "Hollywood Music" has some cool moments.

Completely new music for me. Love the horn in Cool in the pool.

Well this is a weird looking album on the face of it. 4 songs spanning 40 minutes with two longer songs making up the bulk of its weight. Cool in the Pool puts this right out there with an eclectic stomp filled with all sorts of quirky instrumental intrusions (trumpet, accordion, etc.) and unique vocals. Brings the likes of Zappa and Talking Heads to mind. The former for the quirkiness and the latter for the synth heavy funky rhythms. Loving Persian Love out of the gate. Hollywood Symphony is a spacey, drawn out, proggy affair. Not by any means my most careful listen, but I was really into this album throughout. Quirky, for sure, but in a great way. This is a (at times goofy) prog/jazz/electronic-rock album that has some really awesome spacious/psych elements. A lot to enjoy here with the highlights for me residing in the back half with Persian Love and Hollywood Symphony. Love the crisp production and guitar tone that he is able to evoke. At times it felt Garcia-esq in the best possible ways. This is a very strong 4 lacking the (as Jackson would say) chutzpah to earn a 5.

Very interesting album here. I really like how forward the doohickey is in the mix. The contraptions are certainly going in on some of these songs. Could have used more thingamajig throughout, since it really shone in Oh Lord, Give Us More Money. Honestly though, this started out a bit hectic but really settled in the second half. Maybe not so good to get all the way into 4 stars, but I was grooving for a good portion of this.

I have no idea what I just listened to but I absolutely loved it! When it started off I thought I was in for some weird shit (which I was) but it ended up being totally baller. This was an experimental album that I could get down to not just because of the weirdness, but the actually instrumentals were awesome. Listening through Oh Lord, Give Us More Money made this album really flirt with a 5 with the awesome synth/guitar combo. But the rest of the album was just a touch too weird where I don't think I can give this a 5, mainly because I don't think I will ever listen to the whole album again. I went back and listened to Cool in the Pool again and I think that might be the goofiest song I have ever heard. Very high 4

Cool in the Pool is an awesome name and I love the beginning of this. Lots of sounds happening, but it works for me. This is some experimental shit. Guitar works and synth on Oh Lord, Give Us More Money is some good stuff for me ears. Random cat meow in there. These guitars are wigglin'! The beginning of Hollywood Symphony reminds me of some Pink Floyd mixed with Blues for Allah Grateful Dead. Good stuff. Damn reading more about this guy I didn't realize he was in Can. This was a surprisingly awesome album. I don't know if I'm pushing it into the 5 territory but it's certainly a high ass 4.

I am pleasantly surprised. This was some seriously cool experimental krautrock. Colour me impressed. I have not listened to Can, or any krautrock at all for that matter until now. I can be sure that I will rectify this soon. A mix of ambient, rock, and at some points comedy, this album, despite having only four songs, manages to be rather diverse and very enjoyable.

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.

What a fun eclectic full sounding record. I like the pool song. Lol. 1979 was definitely the year for this weird sounds for 14 mins. Haha

Difficult to rate an album where one of the four songs is 13 minutes and mostly sound effects.

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 is groovy and fun

En plein le genre de art rock que je peux respecter le risque pris, mais plusieurs passages étaient vraiment pénibles. Peut-être considérer lui redonner une chance. 5/10

There are albums that are weird, and I like their weirdness, which makes for a great album. This album is not one of those. It felt to me like the album was weird because there wasn't the capability to make good music. Not for me

Wonderfully bizarre and unique. I just don't enjoy the samples that sound like dialogue from a movie or tv show. Although, I guess the album is titled movies so that should have been expected. What the heck I'll round up this time.

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.

There's been some really bad music on this list, but I think this might be some of the worst "music" I've ever listened to. I got through 3 out of the 4 songs on this album and fell off. I couldn't bear to endure the last 15 minute song and despite the "artist" asking for more money on the second track, I was not about to give them another fraction of a cent from the Spotify stream. I'm legitimately angry for the following reasons: 1. This exists 2. I listened to it 3. It's on this list 4. Other people will listen to this It might be the worst album I've ever heard and the maker of this list should be ashamed of themselves for including it. I hope wherever they go when they leave this mortal plane of existence they have to listen to this album on repeat for eternity. Utterly atrocious. What kind of sick joke is this

I love this album so much. Holgar Czukay is some kind of mad scientist genius. I'm very stoked and very surprised that this is on this list. The music video for "Cool in the Pool" is one of the best videos ever made IMO as well.

There's one or two tracks that I thought were quite nice, and as its a 4 track album I guess its a 4. Some of it is nearly 2 star level stuff though.

4 songs hmm. It's either going to be fire, a hot mess, and/or amazingly pretentious. 1st song. Funky bass line, foghorn, harpsicord noise, all in a minute and 30 seconds... double hmm. But the melody is quite nice. New phrase to mutter to myself while puttering around the house just dropped "let's get cool in the pool". 2nd song is pretty good. Nice nice nice. I can groove to this. Shit he is "singing." Interesting. He is bringing in movie lines like a turntablis. I wonder when this was first done in music. He is splicing the movie audio as a vocal component. Dammit he keeps "singing". Second song is better Third song is better still. Reminds me of turntables hip hop but rock. Lots of mixed in sound, movie dialogue, etc. Found out this guy was in Can the German prog rock band and the last album I reviewed. Solid 3 out 5. Liked it enough to search out his and Can's other work and is definitely worth a listen to.

Strange 6/10

This shit is weird, but it kind of works. You somewhat get lost in the strangeness and forget your listening to an album and becomes something different. I also like the European guy shouting random things throughout. 7/10

For stretches this albums really good. Definitely one of a kind. High end 3.

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.

Czukay is weird and a genius, loved his minimal albums with David Sylvian, ant this freaky music also nice. Some songs were stolen from Life In The Bush of Ghosts (Eno/Byrne) I thought and only then found out the album is released years before! More prove this man deserve full marks

Probably 3/5 but I’m bumping it up strictly for the ‘stache.

What a trip. I absolutely loved this. It's not gonna go into regular rotation for me, but albums like this is exactly why I started listening to 1001 albums. This was far away from anything I'd normally listen to, and made by someone I didn't know. Great album.

This is an interesting piece. It is happy sounding. I feel like that’s the primary mission for this album. I liked the arrangements. I often wonder if albums that have different versions of the same song are actually good or not? Were they out of songs? I just don’t know.

This was an interesting album. Unique sounds, good vibes. Nothing super special but a fun divergence into a new genre.

Weird, wild and oddly beautiful… I like it!

I love this album! Definitely experimental, but has enough familiar elements to keep it from going off the rails. It's not perfect, but definitely worth a listen.

I'll admit to being sceptical going in, but this album won me over pretty quickly. If the last song was first I might not have gotten into it, but the last song was last and by then I was in his groove.

Art music meets cool tunes

Nope

This was a really fun listen. Pallete cleansing. Loaded with surprises and overflowing with ideas but in a digestible way. Loved this.

A fun surprise, which is quite a feat for a German.

An interesting (especially given its release date) collection of sonically diverse jazz/sound collages. I am surprised I had not heard of it before and I also thought it was a contemporary 2010’s work. Much more playful than Eno oddly beautiful.

Would never have listened to this album without this project. But I actually really enjoyed this. Loved some of the random sampling throughout the tracks, especially considering this is from 1979. Each track was quite different from the other and I didn't get bored, ended up listening to a few tracks twice. Favourite track: Persian Love.

8/10. It did feel like I was listening to a piece of art. Very cool. And I got a good laugh from “Oh Lord, Give Us More Money”. There were some goofy vibes to it that I enjoyed but maybe held me back from giving it a 9 or 10. But very fun listen.

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i didn’t enjoy this at all really. the songs were too long and really uninteresting, i just thought some parts weren’t good at all, and i can’t say a time during the listen i was impressed at all, this wasn’t worth my time and i think there’s some albums way more deserving of being on the list rather than this.

Was a fun time

What an incredibly cool and fun album! Its so charming and has some gorgeous moments that really are just awe inspiring. Most of it is just background music, but its really chill background music that I can easily sink my teeth into, and Holger Czukay's voice is a little silly, but overall really nice, making for a really great little jam thing with bits of greatness sprinkled in; enough so that I don't have anything but praise for this record. Really surprising, but a welcome surprise nonetheless.

This is so bizarre.

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.

I enjoyed this a lot. Greatest album ever? Don't think so, but it's pretty special. I'm a fan of anything that uses unconventional instruments to build its sonic landscape in a unique way. Bass playing is top notch too.

Смешаные впечатления. Не знаю даже как оценить. Доверюсь инстинкту после второго прослушивания.

Always let Holger Czukay cook 🔥Liebezeit’s drum groove on the last track is crazy too. Great work!

Kiva me nå skumt

Cool in the Pool is a tune. After that it's a little noodly, but zipped by.

Cool usage of samples, could’ve been cut up a bit more but it’s fine for an EP

Had some moments, but not for me.

Interesting, Maybe not something I would listen to much but a good experience.

Let’s get cool in the pool! I love weird stuff like this. Very Zappa-esque. Had me cracking up at times. Ultimately was glad it was only 36 minutes, but the current eating criminally underrates this. 4/5

Deliciously eccentric

guy playing around with samples a lot. may be influential but not a great listen. did kind of get into it as background music. 2.6

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.

No

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curious experimental pop

Some nice noise tracks - but not terribly enjoyable overall. I might return to some of his other's tracks.

Listened to about 45 seconds of the first 2 songs and turned it off. Apologies to Holger if it got better and I missed it.

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.

I happen to love Can bc of the huge kraftwerk influence but he uses an annoying number of instruments on this album. Still some catchy tunes and nice vibes.

Never heard about this artist but the music is rather interresting. Other albums added to favorites to explore more in the future.

krautrock. Popurrí instrumental. Ni fu ni fa.

era bajista de can! igual no entiendo el krautrock

Genial genial Gracias de nuevo 1001albumgenerator

How to make "Movies" by Holger Czukay: 1. Start with a repeating backing track 2. Play every instrument at your disposal but only with your teeth. 3. Mush your face onto a soundboard as much as possible 4. Scream out in pain every once in a while for good measure 5. Enjoy

This is wild. A lot is going on here. I tried to listen first time around but found it too chaotic and then I had some writing to do that I'd been putting off and found it was the perfect soundtrack to motivate me. Would I put it on again? It's unlikely. But it was good while I needed it.

4 - I found this super interesting and fun. Really chaotic and it sounds like a moment of creative madness. Parts reminded me of Destroyer but also just very eclectic. 2018 as well which was a surprise.

YAYAYAYAYYA I LOVED IT 5/5 Fave Tracks: all of them

It was okay. Would be better if I was super high.

Weird but strangely captivating

1979, Member of the Band CAN. Genre: Experimental rock, art rock, electronic rock Standouts: Cool in the Pool When I first heard the album I thought it was *weird*, but after several listens I am really starting to like its weirdness. 3.75

Another odd one. But not horrible

I enjoyed the jazzy sounds of Cool in the Pool and the worldly beats of Persian Love. The others were a little too far out for me.

Weird for the sake of weird, which I can get behind. Kind of sounds like Beck if he came about in the age of Yes.

Nope. I can't smoke enough weed to enjoy this.

I like it!

Weird? Check. Interesting? Check. But why the hell is this on a list of albums that I must listen to before I die? It loses a star on behalf of the moron that put this on the list.

interesting...

Well there you go. From hippie undertones, to cosmic cowboys, was there even some reverb washed hammered dulcimer? Pretty far out man.

That was some damn kooky business.

A much-appreciated solo LP from one of the CAN crew that definitely lives within the same vein as its parent project. Doesn’t fall into the trap of most krautrock albums where the tracks run much longer than their noodly hooks and melodies can sustain interest - there was an appropriate jam to length ratio going on for most of the time here, and the instrumentals were interesting enough to keep things moving. Not the most memorable album in the world, but definitely appreciated after a run of 90s breakbeat and British garbage here recently.

Never heard of this artist but it's pretty good!

Decent, although it's kind of chaotic, which makes it difficult to listen to.

So this is the lowest rated album I have received so far, and you know what? I fucking love it. I had never heard of this guy until today, and I love how much he just doesn't care and makes the music he wants, because he's damn good at it. The opening track is a great way in, it's fun, it's goofy, there's honestly everything to love about it. I think the song "Persian Love" drags on a bit more than it needs to, it does feel very repetitive at times. But everything else is to love. This is a lot like Pink Floyd but just weirder, and I'm definitely here for it.

An ok album

Alltaf soft spot fyrir Holger þessi samt alltaf besthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exqdGJuJpI4

Alvöru gaur hann Holger! Þetta er náttúrulega sturluð plata. Rúllaði furðulega vel í gegn hjá mér miðað við svona hálf avant garde dæmi. Flott tilraunastarfsemi.

Mjög áhugaverð plata. Can miklir áhrifavaldar í indítónlist og skemmtilega tilraunir á þessari plötu. Cool in the pool and Persian love skemmtileg lög.

Meine Güte, was ist das bloss für eine 1001 Albums Liste? Nix gegen Can/Czukay. 2S.

A small collection of songs trying to act as multi-genre prog, but actually not really settling on any genre. It’s an odd, nondescript kind of sound, but it also jams nicely, especially in the opening track. Czukay’s German accent is also really fun across all tracks, and it’s placed tastefully (i.e. not overused). The synths are also pretty fun. The instruments generally don’t show much “flourish” or expertise, and the hooks (if there were any) aren’t memorable. I guess it’s a little unclear what musical statement Czukay was trying to make. It sounds good, though, so I shouldn’t complain! Key track: Cool in the Pool

definitely not my taste

So weird but fun.

That was some weird stuff. Exactly the kind of weird I want, though. Not annoying (not particularly good either), just existing in its own little cosmos. Glad I got to experience this.

Kjell Höglund fast på Tyska. Spotify har ingen låttext :( Definitivt sämst hittills.

• Omslaget har bra komposition, reflektionen ser ut som Jesus • Cool in the Pool, Tyska Kjell Höglund • Lika många stilar som instrument • Mike Oldfield vibbar • Oh Lord, Give Us More Money: låter som musiken till en smygsektion i ett spel • "Ganska skön musik" - Hugo Betyg: 1/5

Hollywood symphony var bäst. Albumet vet enbart weird. Tänkte i början att det kunde vara något funky men det var bara weird

Very odd! But was it good? I have no idea.

This is why I’m doing this. Very interesting music from an interesting guy. Recommend reading the wiki about him

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

I was not expecting to like this but it was really cool. Fun and interesting and listenable. 4 stars.

Ну чувствуется что потом породнятся с Ино Алкоальбом: 5 шотов водки подряд и в конце перчик халапеньо

Ну это конечно ебанутая хуйня слегка. Какие-то арабско-индийские вайбы, всё намешано... концепт крут. А Тёма ещё и историю хорошо рассказал, что прям всё хорошо и понятно стало :)

ля как же я рад, что бабушка решила на поезде семью отвозить