Movies

I don’t really know what this is trying to be. There’s some cool ambience, but it’s just kind of random noises all over the place and doesn’t really develop. The irony of calling the album “Movies” and then NOT contouring the songs or the album itself in the fashion of a movie plot is not lost on me, and in fact I rank this album even lower as a result. What a disjointed turd.

Ambient noises and samples. Not compelling.

Woof.

Too weird

Incredibly un-listenable. How did this become a recommendation?

I’ve already sat through more Krautrock on this list than any human should reasonably have to, but Movies somehow managed to be the worst of the bunch. That’s saying something, because at least the other albums in the genre were tolerable. This one felt like a test of patience — repetitive, meandering, and completely lacking any payoff. It’s like someone threw a bunch of synths and half-baked ideas into a blender and hit “loop.” If this is considered a standout in Krautrock, I want off this ride immediately.

If Gene Belcher was a real person, he would be Holger Czukay

Weird. Dissonant jazz. 1/5

Seriously WTF

Weird. Not in a good way.

Valjastaa soittotaidon lisäksi myös huumorin voiman pimeälle puolelle.

1 stern

Experimental, but not really experimenting with any direction/purpose. There are some nice melodies, but they're almost always ruined by this warbling singing, and Holger added distortion to a lot of the songs despite them already being chaotic.

not music

What? How is this on this list?

tf is this shit

Avant garde always tells me I’m in for a shit time. Experimental does not equal good.

Nope.

What genre should that be be - "uninspired try-out" ?!

Love that it's only 4 songs, even though it's odd that two of them are 13 and 15 minutes long... It is very good for background music in a film...which makes me think that could have been the reasoning behind the name. 1st song: I like it, it's vibey. I like how light-hearted it is. 2nd song: very similar to the first one, with a bit more going on at times 3rd song: this one is more interesting from the first seconds, actually really love the music. I have added this song to my playlist which is VERY unexpected, it made me smile a lot. 4th song: again, very similar to songs 1 and 2 with slight occasional differences in words and rhythm; probably my least favourite song on the album. This is definitely not my kind of music (experimental) and I don't think I will be listening to this again, except for that one song possibly occasionally.

There has to a more influential album than that.

This is a bit too weird for me, I didn’t get it at all. I’m not saying it’s terrible and honestly I’ve heard worse, but I didn’t enjoy it having had to turn it off, thus I have to give it a 1.

seriously?

I've never seen an album on this list with less than 1000 plays on one of the song tracks until this album. I think there is a reason for this ...

Not bad!

Def not for me

Maybe I just didn't get it....

this ranged from there to WHY could i write poetry to this? n

Didn’t make it through the second song.

Definitely not for me. Weird

First listen. Meh.

Alternative. Couldn't finish listening through.

Another one of these goofy albums? In the top 1001? C’monnnnnn. Definitely one of those albums where you could pick up more details with every listen, although in this case, is never likely to happen.

Not great.

Movies. Nope, absolute horseshit. Goes nowhere, does nothing interesting or appealing. 1.

I can't believe that one of the dudes from Can is responsible for this bullshit

Not for me 1/5

Nice experimentation

Must be “D” movies.

das ist echt beschissen!

Definitely not my cup of tea. I appreciate the free-form electronic music here, but I can't get behind any of it. It's all over the place. 1/5

What the hell was that?! At least it was mercifully short. I’m looking at all of the five star reviews on this website, and it only reinforces the notion that there truly is no accounting for taste. This is clearly not my thing, while others seem to adore it. I don’t get it.

I can see how it's influential, but not a good listen.

че тут только нет, и боссанова и самба и всякая европейская хрень, и африканские приколюхи. российской/советской музыки зато нет ну и пошли нахуй епт

Well that was weird. Just wasn't for me.

Ugh

Cool deep cuts. Should stay hidden

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

come on

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

All over the place; too experimental. 1/5

Not my jam

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

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

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.

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.

It was a bit too weird

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.

Juvenile

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

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

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.

Not worth reviewing x

Not for me.

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.

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.

Oh, for fuck's sake, really?

What the hell was that

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

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

Nope

Esqueça isso

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.

This is so bizarre.

No

Cool in the pool er da godt nok dårlig 💀💀 Hvad fuck er det her????? 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 micaelmarco.dk

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.

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

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.

definitely not my taste

• 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

I tried to give it a fair shake. This was bad.

Not my style at all.

Good lord, this sounds so amateur. Like a child bought an instrument for Christmas

couldn't handle it

Ngl woni mich letschtmal über es album beschwert han hani nonig gwüsst das das da existiert. Ehrlichgseit tönt das Album nochem schiefgangene Art project us de schuel. Oder viellicht bin ich eifach z dumm zums verstah, who knows, aber ich chan absolut garnüt mit dem afange.

Okay interesting ahfang… weiss ned wie ich zum gsang stahne im moment😂mal luege aber susch d musig vibed scho… Let‘s get cool in the pool hett mi grad so gnoh omg wo bin ich hahahhahaah. Oke ich finds schwierig, chas ned wük ernst neh… so avant garde findi das etz au ned tbh Ach neee ich gsehs iwie gar ned.. das album isch all over the place und ich cha iwie nüt gschiids demit ahfah

Wtf is this garbage

Meh

I didn’t like this album.

too weird to be ignored and left in the background, too repeditive to listen actively to. physically painful

I don't if this is bad or if I'm just a cretin

Zielloser Experimental Rock.

I was wondering if there were any albums in the list that I could only rate with one star, and the answer is yes. "Cool in the Pool" boys and girls.

Nah

Artisti ja levy, josta en ole koskaan kuullut? Levyllä näyttää olevan neljä biisiä ja kesto kuitenkin lähes 40 min eli vahva epäilys jazz-levystä, joka romuttuu heti alkutahdeilla. Hyvin vaikeasti lokeroitavaa ja ymmärrettävää musiikkia. Kokellista tiluliluleitä? Ensimmäisessä biisissä oli jotain järkeä ja sitten lähti ihan sivuraiteille. Vähän liian outo kokonaisuus, ei jatkoon.

The fuck is this? Unsettling amount of weirdos giving this 5 stars, it doesn’t make you interesting to pretend to like this unlistenable shite, just means you belong on a watchlist

Music for people on drugs.

- Ich habs mir komplett gegeben - Bin nicht stolz drauf - Ich kann nichts, wirklich GAR NICHTS daran finden - Man soll Toten ja nicht schlecht nachreden, und Holger mag echt n netter Kerl gewesen, aber das war einfach grauenvoll Meine ersten 0 Punkte. (Nervig, dass man nicht einfach 0 Sterne vergeben kann). Rating: 0/5

- Einige ganz witzige Part - Ich fands erstaunlicher weise ziemlich einfach, es durchzuhören. Es ist jedoch irgendwie kein positiver Gesamteindruck hängen geblieben - Gesamtheitlich mir zu wirr, unstrukturiert und wahllos, ohne diese Elemente aber auf einer Meta-Ebene in irgendeiner Form zu verknüpfen 1,5/5

- das gibt mir mal wieder so gar nichts - nervige Songs, die dann auch noch dermaßen in die Länge gezogen wurden - k, thx, bye Rating: 0/5

Garbage. Take Revolution 9 and make it an album. Take one of those Yamaha keyboards and randomly dick around on different settings hitting random keys for 40 minutes. Performance art in music form. This is no one’s favorite album.

One finds themselves thinking just because something is different or odd doesn't automatically mean it's also creative or unique. I had an absolutely groundbreaking and brilliant take about this album an hour ago and now I completely forgot what it was. And I for one blam this album. It's already rotted my brain when I wanted it to be expanded. All a brother wants is to feel a little enlightened. Now I'm going to right that wrong while grabbing my wife's scrumptious and voluptuous breasts. Those things have become a magnet that pulls my hands in their direction. I hope she never learns I lost time from my life listening to this album. I hope I would never make an album that rots listener's brains.

trash did not care for it

Nu tā norauti mazliet. xD Bet absolūti nav mans.

Niet te doen

1.5

did not enjoy this one. Too "out there" for me.

While undoubtedly an important part of music history, it's a real struggle to get through. I'm sure if you can get through the noise and random sounds (samples of car alarms, dogs barking, what I'm assuming was a running faucet), there's something to be gain. Getting through that noise though is a juggernaut of a task.

Cool in the pool

Dont even know what to say.

There's a solid album in here, bits and pieces here and there are really good. 8:00 - 11:00 ish of Hollywood Symphony was really good. Persian Love was probably my favorite song on the album and one I added to my playlist separately. The voiceovers and melody really worked in tandem. For every other song, the voiceovers felt more out of place and didn't add much of anything to the overall instrumentation. This album was produced by Frank Zappa, and if you like his body of work you may enjoy this album. I have not dabbled as much into Zappa (though I like and appreciate Captain Beefheart). Maybe that is taking away from my enjoyment, but overall from an outsider's perspective this album is 1/5, or 20/100 (20 points for Persian Love, great song). Without the voiceovers, I'd give it an even 50/100, as the instrumentation really was very good, but when the voiceovers don't work or add to the song as a whole besides being something the artist wanted to include, the listener loses out on the experience.

Good god that was horrible.

You know how they say that you can't judge a book by its cover? Well I guess that's why they didn't say the same for an album by it's cover. One look at that artwork and I knew this was going to suck and guess what... I was right! Just bad all around. 2/10.

Strange one here. 4 track album, including one at 13 minutes and one at 15 minutes. Reminds me of the "This is What it Sounds Like" book that I'm reading that talks about authenticity. This one is certainly authentic because it's got some really weird, "out there" components. Not really my style.

I am not a fan of krautrock. I am a fan of my pre-K daughter's song about being cool in the pool (to the tune of "do your ears hang low"): I will stay real cool in my little swimming pool On a sunny summer day, I will splash around and play When I wear my bathing suit, I will be cool and cute In my swimming pooooool!

Imagine you are a musician with formal training. Now, imagine someone gave you a $40,000 Moog Synthesizer in the late 70s and told you to learn how to use it. So, you spent a few days with it and decided to record what you learned down in your Mom’s basement. Then you dubbed it some guitars, bass and drums. And you invited some friends over to contribute to your recordings. And everyone just played whatever they wanted with little regard for melody, harmony, or rhythm. Then, just for fun, you’d lift some sounds of people talking and splice that in. Okay, I admit the part about Mom’s basement was unnecessary but if you did the rest of that, you’d have this album. And you’d be considered avant-garde and a pioneer for sampling.

I'll take two of whatever this eejit is on

He was definitely trying for something. No idea what.

When I saw we got an album called Movies by a guy named Holger Czukay, I figured the worst thing it could be is cringey elevator music. Boy, did I expect too much. There’s no possible way to take “Cool in the Pool” seriously, and maybe it’s not supposed to be taken seriously. Either way, the overly German nature of it somehow makes it even worse than it would be otherwise. When I hear “Oh Lord, Give Us More Money” I think oh Lord, give us more mercy. The third and fourth tracks are no better than the first two, and as the album nears its end, I consider a drive to the local lobotomy clinic. A coked up cat could attempt the Charleston on a keyboard and give us something better than this. After the album was over (half of which I’d skipped) I felt cheated out of remotely decent music (or music at all) so I put on another far-out record not included in this list to stand in for the day. I owe the Grateful Dead and their From the Mars Hotel a word of thanks for my little remaining sanity.

Jeezus Murphy that was awful.

Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: No, not my thing Favourite song: didn’t have one

Rubbish

Did not enjoy

Bad

i don’t think i enjoyed it

Not my style.

Ugh.

I’ve got one thing to say about this one. “LETS GET COOOL, IN THA POOOOL”

Boring. Plus, putting random sound effects and movie clips over some drums makes it 'experimental' but not 'good.'

It is now time to dance on sprockets. 1/5

1. 2 songs in and can't listen to them anymore. Seems a bit cheesy and silly to me.

Ik heb geen idee waarom dit in deze lijst staat, maar ik heb 'm afgevinkt en we gaan door naar de volgende.

Dat accent is rechtstreeks uit 'Allo 'Allo! "Would you like to come for a ride in my little tank, René?” Dat was grappig bedoeld, maar deze "muziek" is werkelijk niet om aan te horen.

Talentless oaf sticks shit to the wall and hopes it sticks. 1/5 Also I don’t care that he’s in can I really don’t give a shit about that band.

Så konstigt…

Just awful

Creative, but ridiculous

I listened to one song and it was too weird.