Suicide

I tried so hard to like this

This came out a year or so before I regularly subscribed to 'Sounds' music paper, but they'd have surely been all over this. I find it difficult tobelieve this was recorded in 3 days? Surely one? And probably written at the same time and to the same formula... play a few notes on the keyboard of choice, loop, vocal over the top. Jobs a goodun Interesting but too simplistic . Frankie Teardrop is too long Like a lot of 1977 material, made more for effect than art

01) Ghost Rider - 7,5 02) Rocket U.S.A. - 7,0 03) Cheree - 7,0 04) Johnny - 7,0 05) Girl - 5,0 06) Frankie Teardrop - 3,0 07) Che - 5,0 TOTAL: 5,93 (59/100) Current ranking: 718/901

The vocals were consistent in style/form. Unfortunately it wasn't for me so it'll be a 2. The music was more engaging for me.

Ultra repetitive tunes that remind me of how Jimmy Eat World only plays one note on repeat. The only decent song here was Johnny. I do not like this. Not the worst thing I've heard though.

Was okay then got weird

It is quite different for sure.. I am still not sure if it is different in a good or in a bad way 2/5

You can see how this was influential but it was very samey throughout. Cheree into Johnny was great but the rest was forgettable.

Not hearing anything beyond the same thing. One can stop and start pretty much anywhere. It's okay, I guess. Okay to be left off a list of things I need.

It started out so promisingly. A crash of guitar and an interesting sound somewhere between punk and more 80's Depeche. Ode stuff. But then it descended into absolute nonsense. Weird sex noises, long dirges and repetition without invention.

This is very unique and odd. Liked how dark it is, but that's about all. Very one note.

I thought the first song was cool, but I realized during the second song that this would be a tough listen.

Hey! So I hate this! 1.5

I see it might be ahead of its time but it’s a very poor record.

i dont understand this music tbh, not for me... feels like it never goes anywhere, like a bad dream that never ends

canzoni molto simili tra loro e anche abbastanza noiose

L'album ha una sua idea strutturata, ma risulta mooolto ripetitivo. Non riesco a trovare una singola occasione in cui lo ascolterei

Suiciden debyytti on mieleenjäävä kokemus, mutta ei ihan omaan makuuni.

Really minimalist music with lyrics that felt like elvis was delivering spoken word observations. I read about some of the bands they influenced, a lot of which I like, and I feel like someone would've got there eventually without this band. Music loops just felt like they were going to build to something and never had a pay off

Really lost me in the second half.

A mercifully short, soporific drone. Truly awful.

I am giving this a 2 for the efforrt. Not that I believe there was a lot of effort put into making this album but at least there was effort in making something that sounded different then and even now almost 50 years later. The music itself sucks. Overly morose with what sounds like an ungrounded mic or something electronic droning over or into every song.

Influence is clear and I'm grateful, but these vocals make me want to kill my self

Experimental but dull

Didn't like. All that moaning and groaning doesn't interest me. And the rest was very forgettable.

На початку альбому було краще, далі пісні стали більш схожі просто на якісь саундтреки

Never heard of them before, and it started off pretty cool ... the back half seemed to fall off pretty sharply.

Started good, but then nosedived pretty quickly. It was more boring than atmospheric/creepy that it wished it was. Elvis impression didn't help either. Nice try at a time when no one was doing anything similar, but just not interesting enough.

This album is mostly decent except for 1) the orgasm noises on Girl and 2) the awful screaming on Frankie Teardrop. For that it gets a deduction.

What a bizarre album. I liked some of the industrial/synth sounds, but the lyrics were so weird and deranged, especially Girl and Freddie Teardrop. It seemed like in every song, the lyrics were mostly just repeating the title over and over again. I give it an extra star because overall it was better than some of the other earlier punk I've heard, but it's still not something I feel like I need to listen to again.

1 stern

I listened to every minute of this record, and I spent most of it thinking of alternative titles for it. Distorted Tambourine? White Noise Egg Shaker? Fuzzy Fuzzy Eighth Notes? Because that's mostly what I heard. Super distorted eighth notes that only stop because the next song is coming on, and guess what - it also has super distorted eighth notes, played from some kind of drum machine, on a loop. There is one song where the super distorted eighth notes disappear from a few seconds, but then - guess what? They come right back! It felt like a blessed relief to not have to listen to those damned things for a while. Anyways. "Cheree" is a standout, as it has the most melody and harmony amongst these songs. And it clearly laid the ground work for Jesus and Mary Chain. But most songs are not like that. And good God - Frankie Teardrop. Hahahhah wow. That's.....that's a song, alright! I suppose! I didn't hate it, but I also didn't really enjoy it at all. It's a well-deserved *I was editing another entry and I re-read this review and having had a week or so between this album and my brain, I have to say - this one stuck with me. It still deserves 2 stars, but I'll be damned if "Frankie Teardrop" hasn't been sitting in my head this whole time. Amazing. TWO STARS

Had never heard of them, would have been fine keeping it that way. Apparently ahead of their time... a New York proto-punk duo, not the British rock I assumed based on vibes alone. Interesting as a historical artifact, less interesting as something to actually listen to.

Very creative, but ultimately boring and/or annoying. 1.5/5.0: Bad

one or two interesting songs, the rest were super annoying

Pas mon style

picks: Ghost rider, cheree

nothing redeeming here. Move on. Note: my 800th! ... yippee...

Not great but not terrible. Quite repetitive and noisy but almost in a good way. I’m leaning towards a 2 rating but only hesitantly.

It wasn't the most enjoyable listening experience but I can say that the production really stands out here. There's an underlying darkness found beneath the sound which is oddly modern. I couldn't really connect with the songs. After a while they start feeling dull and uninspired - more like underdeveloped demos rather than fully finished ideas. The song "Ghost Rider" is a nice opening as it sets the mood for the rest of the album.

I really was not expecting what I got with this album. Wasn't expecting such good, repetitive electronic music. Wasn't expecting such bad lyrics and singing. Definitely wasn't expecting the song from the Marc Jacobs Daisy advert. Johnny is comically bad, Cheree is really good, but the singing is consistently awful. Frankie Teardrop could have been good with a different singer, like a Velvets drone song. Some of the rest sounds like Sigue Sigue Sputnik.

2 out of 5 A few songs were so-so. That Frankie's Teardrop was almost 10 minutes of painful electronic noise and I did not enjoy it one bit.

As a fan of synthpop I’m kinda surprised I never bumped into music by this band at all, which makes claims of their supreme influence on the genre feel dubious to me. I can definitely hear elements that might have rubbed off on the likes of Fad Gadget or Cabaret Voltaire, but what we actually get here is mostly distorted takes on 50s pop. When it veers further from that it starts to get less background and more irritating. It’s like the band playing in the corner of the bar mumbling and yelping over homemade instruments who’s before the ones you’re actually there to see. The longer and weirder it goes the angrier you become — and all the while you get the sense that’s actually the band’s goal. Girl and Frankie Teardrop are things I hope to never hear again. By 1977, Kraftwerk were already well-established… Ultravox had a minor hit with My Sex. Synthesizer duos would have happened without Suicide. I can just award this an extra star for being an influence for genres and bands I love dearly. I’m glad I heard this context, so I suppose it belongs on the list, but I don’t need to hear it again.

This definitely wasn’t my thing although I can see what people might like about it. I liked some of the instrumentation but wasn’t a fan of the vocal style. Could have done without the screaming as well. Fav song: Ghost Rider Least fav: Frankie Teardrop

Synth heavy and very unconventional. Feels like what you might get if you let hipster music students run amok with new equipment. The sound of the synths is interesting though, like a distorted buzzsaw. The vocals are kind of distant and breathy, the drums are muffled, and I'm not really sure what they're going for here. If you played this dangerously loud, ideally while on hard drugs, I bet it would be better. Cheree has an actual melody though, the chimes create a neat atmosphere and the thick low end permeates everything. Girl has a pretty good riff and the organ kind of does its thing for a bit. Frankie Teardrop is 10 minutes long, really driving home the minimalism thing. More bizarre vocals and jump scares. Che, the last track is kind of good. It's mainly just repetitive, grimy electronic stuff, but it does scratch a certain itch in my brain. I'm not sure I actually like it but I feel like if I played it enough I would get hooked on this somehow. Better quit now.

Meh.

Well…electro-punk and industrial pioneers. An interesting thing, rater than being actually good music.

um wow, definitely cutting edge in a way. like a Lynch movie soundtrack. Not exactly danceable, but ...intriguing?

It was very OK until Girl. Worst song I've ever heard. Two stars because it is ahead of its time for 1977.

Not a great album for me.

I was the fool listening to the front end of this album thinking it was falling short of the intensity I expected from a band called Suicide. A few early tracks would have been at home in the more off kilter moments of early Twin Peaks seasons and I enjoyed from that perspective. And then i obviously got to Frankie Teardrop…which could have fit into Twin Peaks season 3 when they took the darkness off the edge - both being media I endured but did not really enjoy (I’m sure it’s a not a song you are meant to “enjoy” and can appreciate the avante garde of it all but you know what I mean)

Yeah they're onto something but just get too weird

No private session used for Spotify. I had heard "Ghost Rider" several times, but was never that interested in it to dig into more Suicide. Now that I have listened to the complete album, I find it more of the same, just with some jarring screaming. I won't listen to it again.

Early punk vibe

Couple good songs but so much rando noise

Not a fan.

I understand what they were trying to do and the proto goth vibes were great, however Frankie Teardrop made me lose my sanity. I wish I could have recorded the noise I made while listening to it and put that as my review. The last song saved it a little for me.

I kinda liked “Martin Rev's minimalist electronics and harsh, repetitive rhythms” (Wikipedia 😊). Didn’t like anything else.

Unfortunately this did not impress me. I’ve heard much about Frankie Teardrop, how it’s one of the freakiest songs out there, but I’d never fully listened before. And it was ultimately underwhelming. Maybe Maybe listening to Disintegration last night is coloring my opinion on this today, but either way the minimalism on this didn’t connect with me in any way. At the very least, I can respect the movement and art form.

I didn't mind the repetitiveness, even on Frankie Teardrop, but I admit the screaming got old fairly quickly.

ох и чернуха

Some cool stuff but really repetitive

kind of boring

2.0

I think this album has an interesting musical concept to bring to the world. I feel it leans too much to independent/punk aesthetics to really leverage the most out of the concept, so it just feels as another wild 70s experiment that doesn't land. But this specific experiment hit some interesting vein and I would've liked this vein to be explored deeper. Having said all that, realistically, I'm not gonna listen to any song on this album ever again.

If you want to listen to a guy moaning and screaming into a microphone over a constant flurry of kicks, this is the album for you!

++

Started alright, but ended up skipping a few songs at the end because it’s just electric noise

Ouch! I wanted to like it. Alas, I did not. It was punishing, offensive and veered too hard into deliberately ugly material. It gets a point up for early sonic innovation - the electronic experimentation - and its energy. I just don’t want to listen to it.

Influential? Yes. Did I enjoy listening to it? No. I like my fir share of fairly challenging stuff but this did not challenge or provide sonic stimulation. On the subject of stimulation, this is not one to listen to while in school due to the groaning noises.

Very minimal electronic music. Not bad not great.

Jaha det här var ju inget vidare. Börjar helt ok. Inte märkvärdigt. Men Frankie-låten är helt värdelös. 10 min skit. Alltså 1/3 av skivan. Nope.

Halvvägs in så tänkte jag att det kändes orättvist att den fått så många ettor, även om den förståelsen ökade i takt med att det spårade ur lite mot slutet. För mig var ändå en majoritet av skivan okej lyssning, även om jag inte tyckte att det var särskilt bra, så en tvåa ska den ändå ha.

Bunch of noise

this is the first album that i struggled to get through. for the year that this was released, it is clear just how much of a monumental album this was. it is so far ahead of its time, so punk, and introduces the world to something that really hadn’t been done before. that being said, personally it was a hard listen. the first two tracks were something i could get behind, but as the album went on it almost felt like the structure was falling apart. it was very unsettling, though i’m sure that was intentional. i’m glad i got to have the experience of listening to this album, but i don’t think it is something i will do again.

I'm sorry, but just no.....

Ik waardeer deze plaat. Zeker als je hiermee debuteert. Ik waardeer het experimentele karakter. Zeker als het daarmee niet 'mooier' wordt. Ik heb echt een heel eind geluisterd maar kon er eigenlijk gewoon niet van genieten. Misschien verkeerde timing. Misschien gewoon te taai. Misschien ben ik gewoon nog niet ver genoeg ontwikkeld als muziek-versteher. 5,5/10

I didn’t like it exactly, but I was expecting something far more grating based on these reviews.

The song frankie sounded like a horror movie in my ears!

What a weird album. I do like the sound, its very unique, but still somehow falls flat.

Back in the early 2010s when I was getting into music, it was not cool to like Springsteen if you were a nerd about music. The exception was always Nebraska, which doesn't sound much like the songs he's best known for, and was overtly influenced by this album (just compare it to songs like "Johnny 99" and "State Trooper"). I guess I should thank Vega and Rev for being part of the gateway that got all the nerds to realize Springsteen is good, but I just don't enjoy them that much. Synth punk rockabilly sounds like a great idea, and for a song or two it is! But they don't really have the ability to keep it interesting for the length of an entire album. Go listen to like Silver Apples or Colossal Youth instead.

was kind of vibing until *that* song

An incredibly dismal album with a singular atmosphere. I don’t know if it’s really possible to “enjoy” any of this, but there is a vision there.

Everyone in the global reviews acting like each song isn’t a guitar solo and Lou Reed’s vocals away from becoming something they’d love. It’s not THAT bad. Now, it’s not a great album either. This record was experimental and maybe ahead of its time, it would be iterated on in the years to come. Some of the programmed percussion & drum machines are really nice on “Rocket USA” & “Chree”. And, for aa jarring as the last few songs are, at least the lead singer commits to the stories he’s telling. 2/5 at least it’s memorable

One of those albums whose "historical significance" is considerably higher than the actual "listenability" of the record. I get the creative part, but I've never actually enjoyed listening to most of these songs.

For a record that was released in 1977 this is quite unusual, perhaps ahead if its time. However, unusual does not necessarily mean good. The first part of the album is decent, but “Frankie Teardrop” is a guy telling a story, which I do not consider music.

Maybe the song 'Don't Try Suicide' is actually about this album. Luckily I knew about all the 'Frankie Teardrop' screaming already, but that didn't make it any easier for my little brain (volume-wise I mean, the content is whatever (true about both the screaming and my brain)). The first song is about a Marvel character, which is a nice change from all the Gandalf songs on this list. All the non-screaming songs are fine, but didn't thrill me. 3 in general, 1 for screaming, that's a 2. Highlight: 'Johnny' Lowlight: 'Frankie Teardrop' (don't yell at me!)

Meh. 2 stars.

Pasikartojantis rimtas, kartais keistai hormy dainos. Kartais rėkia.

I'm wondering if the timing of this album ending up in my feed is a coincidence. I'd been looking for it since I saw the Bruce Springsteen move last week. In the movie, Bruce is his house, listening to this, talking about how important it is. I can appreciate the artistic nature of what is going on here, but I don't think I need to have this in the regular rotation. This is one that would definitely get a 2.5 if I had the option of half stars. As it is, I'm going to go with a 2 because I don't think I can justify giving this a 3 because it is experimental and "important" but it isn't likely to be most folk's jam.

Ghost rider, Rocket USA: waiting for it to bust out but never does Cheree, Johnny, Girl: shit electronic Doowop Frankie Teardrop: terrible jump scare yelling, 8 minutes too long Overall very repetitive with very little peaks and valleys, weird mumbly lyrics (except for the clipping screams in Frankie Teardrop, awful). Obviously something avant guard for the time (1977), but too weird for casual listening. Who is this for?

Funniest album I’ve listened to in a while. Could not help but cracking up. I can hear its influence on the music I listen to now, but oh my god this album is terrible

Let’s hear it for Frankie! What the fuck is this? This album forced me to use decimals going forward. Girl and Frankie Teardrop steal the show. What a backloaded album. With Girl you’re experiencing another man’s orgasm. Really coulda done without all the moaning at the end. Can’t say I enjoyed that but hey can a man not get a nut and record it? Now Frankie. Listen, a smarter and more ambitious man than I would confidently know what this album is trying to convey. All I hear is sexual gratification straight into murder suicide. I can see how this might have been controversial and new at the time, so much so I can’t think of a natural predecessor in the years that follow. One could argue you don’t have old school Tyler the Creator without this. The song went on comically long. All songs had solid tunes and questionable but not bad vocals. This felt like Mr. Garrison, Timmy and Cartman collabed on an album. It grew on me second listen when I started to treat it as a comedy album. Perfect spooky undertones for Halloween. 2.5/5

This is something man, I can definitely acknowledge what they were trying to do here but I just don't think it's for me. Frankie Teardrop was one of the strangest listens I've had in a while. That mfer kept screaming in my damn ear. I didn't actively dislike the album, it just felt kind of empty. I guess that's part of the sound, but I found the whole album pretty boring until Frankie Teardrop and then I was like well this certainly isn't boring, but maybe I'd rather that it was. Felt like the 1977 equivalent of Dance With the Devil by Immortal Technique. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but you have to be in the right headspace to enjoy it. Or maybe you're not supposed to enjoy it maybe you're just supposed to be like damn that boy Frankie's fucked up, in which case mission accomplished. Then at the end they're like we're all Frankies we're all in hell and I'm like what he say fuck me for? I didn't shoot my 6 month old child and my wife don't put that man Frankie's evil on me. We are not the same. I feel bad because I was hoping I would like this one, but it just really didn't do much for me. I can respect that there's a level of artistry to it, but the guitar on every song felt hollow and repetitive and the vocals just felt like they were jumping in to break up empty space every once in a while. I think the fact that I have so much to say about it is at least something, it's definitely not a nothing burger of an album and it at least made me think. 2/5

Idk man it’s an art form. I’ll give it to them and say that I’ve thought about this album a lot after finishing even though I didn’t enjoy it. No song structure just one sound and a couple layers with sporadic vocals. Frankie Teardrop ruined my day though

every heard an early synth metal album before? i've never heard one either until this day. suicide's debut album is noisy, different, and... between all other critiques, it's innovative. absurdly crunchy guitars are paired with drum machines that blend into static noise and the occasional synthesizer adding some extra flavor to it. the album itself, while inspired from older rock and roll greats, feels like a dark parody. it's a bit disorienting and bleak to listen to... while i was initially fascinated by the synth and drum machine usage, the album is a bit of a sludgefest. it gave me a bit of a migraine more than anything else... but at least i can see what they're trying to do here.... kinda. i don't know.

Some of the bass work during the first few tracks is decent, but there are several negatives on this record. The lyrics are repetitive. Track 5 provides weird orgasm sounds which are pretty creepy, “Frankie Teardrop” is utter rubbish (10 minutes of monotonous guitars and random screaming) and the closing track is poor too. I like the 70s vibe of the first few tracks and the vocalist has a good voice when he does something close to, you know, singing. All the positives from the early moments are undone and outweighed by the trash of the last three songs. They are really bad. I wouldn’t bother listening again anytime soon.

There IS something here. I don't know what, but I didn't instantly think "oh no, why is this here". I suppose an equally valid point would be that I didn't find anything to make me think "yes, I understand why this is here".

This was genuinely difficult to gauge. I didn't think it was particularly inaccessible or out-there. The record felt very modern and approachable. But I also hated Girl. It felt exploitative and devoid of ideas. So, a mixed bag. A very mixed bag.

Experimental doesn’t equal groundbreaking. This was mostly annoying to get through.

Fine but I looked away and back again and I’d gone through the whole album without realising the tracks had changed.

Some catchy songs but it didn't feel extraordinary.

This did nothing for me. I know it's on several top album lists, I just don't know why. Yes, the electronics were somewhat advanced for 1977. The closest thing to a song was "Girl" - but that's not saying much.

Strange but mildly interesting. I don’t hate it.

Nah

Alright let's flip a coin. Heads it's boring, tails it's annoying.

horny punk weird for 6am

I expected more based on the name and cover art. Don't judge a book by it's cover and all that. Yeah it's just not doing anything for me. It's not terrible, like I'm listening and don't hate everyone involved with the making of this album. I'm not mad I'm listening, it's just not me.

+1 star for experimenting

wasn't in the right mood

Jeg må sige at jeg startede ud med at blive positivt overrasket, men gik så også ret hurtigt død derefter. Der er nogle seje ting i det meget industrielle synth-punk de kører, men jeg blev sgu ret træt af det repetitive 8-delsbas og støvede trommemaskine groove der lå konstant på alle numre i forskellige tonearter

A microphone, Casio keyboard, and cricket/cicada noise.

Not that great.

That was kind of boring...like in a artsy-fartsy way. Sure, I guess this was an attempt to be so anti- that it was anti-anti or no anti. And I hope I don't have to listen to this again. 2 stars

A few tracks were decent, but overall nothing special.

This album peaked in the first two songs. When every song after that was basically the same, there were diminishing returns. When Springsteen says he modeled “state trooper” on “Frankie teardrop,” I get it. Especially that yawp at the end.

Did not really care for this at all. Didn't hate it though.

I won't sit here and say this is actually secretly a stellar album because "art, man." However, they did take a risk with it, and it was certainly ahead of its time, and lord knows I've never heard anything quite like it. By my money, "Frankie Teardrop" is really why this album is on here, and probably what makes Suicide matter at all. I'm not going to say it's a good song, but it does make you stop in your tracks and listen -- which counts for something. It's haunting, disconcerting, and at times downright terrifying. A lot of musicians could probably never pull that off if they tried. Fave songs: Yeah, no.

This wasn’t quite as heavy as the name would suggest. Not really my vibe either. Simpsons: No

Suicide or Suicide? What a question.

"Upon its initial release, Suicide was greeted with some favorable reception from the UK press, but was universally panned in the United States, where it failed to chart." Yea that's par for the course for this list, seems like. That said, this is an album that was a huge influence on many genres including Punk, New-Wave, noise, industrial.... It belongs on the list for sure. It's just not particularly entertaining!

One song is a third of the album

This is one of the weirder, and, at the end, most disturbing things I think I've ever listened to. I expected thrashing, screaming punk, but what I got is this strange hushed or sort of fuzzy version of punk-tronica. And that last track, yikes, not thank you, not listening to that again.

I know this is silly, but part of me kind of wanted to hate this album just so I could make a joke along the lines of "Suicide? Yeah, that's what I want to commit after having to listen to this album." However, while I absolutely have problems with this album, I also didn't hate it and I don't think it's fair to make that joke. This album has some things to really appreciate about it and also some very bad parts. I'll start with the praise. This album is very ahead of its time. It's kind of remarkable that an album like this was released in 1977. This, of course, has led to Suicide influencing a number of popular artists, including Bruce Springsteen of all people! I have to respect that and I will admit that this album would probably stay on my 1001 albums list. However, this is another one of those albums that I respect more than I actually like, because I didn't really enjoy listening to this that much. It started out as being fine. The synths are solid. I thought the opener "Ghost Rider" was good. As the album went on, I started to feel a bit more negatively. The tone of "Girl" made me quite uncomfortable. The style was respectable but not my thing. However, I was still willing to give this album something like a light 3. That changed with "Frankie Teardrop." I was a bit concerned by the existence of a 10 minute song on an album like this, but I still went in with an open mind. It started out decently. Definitely on the spookier side of music with the lyrics and all, but not in a bad way. Then the screaming happens. Dear god, the screaming. That might have been the most physically painful moment of any album I've heard on this whole list. I'm serious. I actually had to stop listening for a bit because of it. You might be thinking "Oh, come on, that can't be enough to drop the album's score down, right?" Yeah, well I'm a petty bitch, so I'm dropping the score down. I have some respect for this album and I'm not upset at all that I listened to it, but I also didn't enjoy listening to it for a substantial part of its runtime. High 2/5.

This one is definitely not for me. The music is anxiety inducing at best and the vocal is either spoken word or screeching. OTOH, it is utterly unlike anything I’ve ever heard before and I have to give them credit for that

Pretty wild and unhinged for 77 but also quite unpleasant to listen to at most times. Feels interesting and cool in concept but not really in actuality. A few of the songs that narratively lean into the creepy feeling are cool Fav song: Frankie Teardrop or Cheree

Influential but not actually enjoyable.

It's like a weird parody of 70's rock using synths instead of guitars. It wasn't too bad and I would have given it 3 stars, but taking one off due to Frankie Teardrop.

Fine, not for me. 3.1/10

I’m not sure what to make of this. I can hear why it’s an important record, but I really don’t like it. The whole thing is weird and annoying

Not my cup of tea.

I'm trying to separate how influential this record was from how much I (did not) enjoy it. I actually purchased this on CD a long time because I heard about how influential it was. I probably listened to it twice at the time. Maybe. I hoping that revisiting as my older and perhaps wise self would allow for a new found appreciation. Not so, unfortunately. This is hard listen. I get it was ground breaking when it came out. I'm sure I like many of bands there were influenced by this, but it's just too minimal, too unmelodic and non-rhythmic for me.

Would have been a 3 if Frankie Teardrop was not on the album

Their songs mostly sound like super long intros to other songs

To much screaming in the one song downgraded

Naff!

HOLY MID PUNK

Without the singing it would be a good album. Early Aphex Twin. But the singing - I could only enjoy when imagining it’s meant in a funny way- let‘s just annoy the shit out of the listener - way. Oh Frankie!

That was an odd one

The immediate impression I got from this album is that, in a few different ways, this music is intentionally challenging. It is super repetitive and lowfi, and that’s coming from someone who truly loves outsider music, so lowfi doesn’t normally bother me. In fact my favorite aspect of the album is the lowfi sound. The worst to me is how painfully repetitive some songs are. Even the tracks I listen ended up liking and growing on me are also super repetitive to the point of abuse. The two songs I saved off this album were “Ghost Rider” and “Johnny” (the later being my favorite song). I definitely needed to warm up to GR but Johnny I loved immediately. I wanted the album to be alittle sillier like that song. The real positive about this album is I’ve looked into their other music and I’ve found a bunch that I really like cause they are really creative and bold. But this specific album didn’t really do much for me other than peak my curiosity, and while that does deserve it’s credit, I don’t think that makes it a very good album as a whole.

412/1001 🌕🌕🌗🌑🌑

pass

What? No. Stop jump screaming me.

I've never heard of this band. I saw another review of this album that said "The first note of the first song had me intrigued but it quickly got really bad after that." And I thought, did I write that? Some interesting things going on, but overall a tough listen.

Ahead of its time- Interesting, experimental and a little weird, the originality/historical significance makes it cool. First track, Ghost Rider, was the best. A few were not listenable, but I see the vision. Worth hearing (once) because it certainly inspired (better) music to come.

lEt'S hEaR iT for FrAnKiE, fRaNkie FrAnKiEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEeEe

esto es verga. Le voy a poner 2 estrellas porque no fue tan inescuchable como para sacarlo antes de que termine.

E for Effort. 2/5 is the best I can do. What a shame. I was really looking forward to this one. 2/5 #121

For a band named suicide this is pretty chill Okay what the fuck was the girl song Okay what the fuck is this entire album

So… when does the album really start?

Rating: 3.5/10 Mostly meh but Frankie Teardrop nearly tanks this to a one-star album. I respect the experimentation but this album misses a lot more than it delivers.

The electronic-like beats are interesting but get repetitive and it all starts to sound the same. The themes are allright and understandebale for the time. The vocals get weird though.

Strange album. Hard to follow and some of the songs are just a slog to get through. At least it was short. 2/5 Won't listen again

Snoozefest (2019 - Remaster)

Not great at all, but other than Frankie Teardrop(rough 10 minutes of my life), this didn't bother me much. Also their Spotify blurb made me laugh.

What the fuck

This started off promising and then went downhill for me. Not my cup of tea - not even my warm beverage of choice. Some cool sounds sprinkled throughout, but it sounded like they were trying hard to sound weird and different just for the sake of sounding weird and different.

i can see that this was an influential album, but it’s not for me.

Highlight: Johnny In a nutshell: synth punk performance art. "Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment" Alan Vega. Touche, Alan. Overall: 3/10

Not my thing, but the first song was kinda nice.

experimental in the wrong way

Weird early electronic. Meh

Starts off okay, but ends up obnoxious and self-indulgent.

oh my god thank you thank you i would hate to have died without listening to suicide by suicide thank you!!!

The music was kind of droning which would be fine if the vocals weren't also so weird.

yeah. No

I don't know. It's simple and twisted and hard to listen to. But it took a while for me realize that there's no real point to the discomfort, no thesis it's striving to realize in any serious way. When the album culminates in Frankie's Teardrop, it feels shocking for the sake of being shocking (and even that falls flat in a world where cartel execution videos and extreme sexual violence are a couple of mouseclicks away). If there was any doubt, the fleeting political and social references there've been up until that point are exposed as flimsy excuses. It's as empty as it is confronting, and yet there's a certain charm here that has pulled me back for multiple listens. God knows why.

This entire album feels like the product of gifting your goth cousin a brand new Casio for his 16th birthday. Honestly, it’s hard not feel like most of these tracks are just some dude messing around with the various drum loops on his synthesizer. The whole thing gives off serious amateur hour vibes: Think Randy Marsh channeling Lorde. It gets a two from me for the interesting electronic sounds on the opening track. But good lord. This was mostly awful.

Ну очень необычная (музыка?). Идеально подходит для суицидников, вероятно. Затрудняюсь с оценкой, поставлю от балды 4 балла из 10.

Phenomenal instrumentals that were wasted on whatever those horrible, uncomfortably breathy, did I say horrible, voice tracks are…

started off promising, a little trance-like, but slowly descended into just grunts with a fuzz background. Not my thing

This is one of those albums that you listen to once because of its legacy and influence and then never again. Super weird and unsettling. 2/5

Twoddle - I'll give this album another listen later in life but goddamn I really couldn't stand the wailing. Cool hypnotic instrumentals though.

I get how forward looking this was for its time, but it doesn’t really change the fact that it’s a pretty shit listen.

Feels like it could be a good backdrop to a current indie album - at least at the beginning. But the reverb talking vocals and the vacancy of many of the tracks were just...bad. Track 1 (Ghost Rider) is kinda interesting. Track 2 (Rocket USA) you realize, oh, we're just gonna talk for most of this, but the drums and synths still kind of keep things going. Track 3 (Cheree) feels like it really is just a mid-2010's indie band instrumental track where the vocals haven't been laid down yet. And it kind of deteriorates from there. Frankie Teardrop is a complete mess - pretty useless from a music standpoint, and with it being Track 6, you're already pretty tired of what you've been listening to.

Torn between 1 star and 2. It got 2 because I liked the back track.

Ambitious and boring. 6.5/10

Completely new stuff to me. Never heard of Suicide and if I had seen the album before today, due to the band’s name, would have naturally avoided it. But to be true to the list and despite the name had a listen and was pleasantly surprised. The instrumentation was good and had one or two melodies which immediately hit home but suspect that could also become a bit annoying due to their repetitive nature. What I didn’t really like was the vocals. Sounded like the chap wasn’t really trying so vocals became incidental to the music. If I owned the album I don’t think it would be played much. But if ripped to a playlist a random track every now and then would be welcoming. 2.4/5 23/4/25

I appreciate the music and the influence it had on other artists, who thought it might be better to actually put some rhythm and drums and bass together to make better music than these guys. 2/5 just because they influenced better bands.

So cool for this to exist in 1977. I’m sure this is absurdly ahead of its time experimental, ground breaking, inspirational, and life changing to young upcoming artists who drew from this unique at the time album. Too bad it’s boring as hell. I have to note that Frankie Teardrop rules. Saves this project from a 1, especially because it’s a third of the run time.

This album made me feel things I've never felt before. All negative. But still new, nonetheless. Woah, I'm on Frankie's Teardrop right now and I think I'm entering into a K hole. This must be what it feels like. I'm towards the end of the song now, and I'm sure this is a K hole experience for me. mom? Mom? MOM? MOM!!!!! MOMMMYYYYY HEEEEEELPPPPPP!!!!!! I think the singer was gooning when recording this album. I'll need to fact check that though. This is weird. The bad weird. But +1 for creativity? It was a trip for sure. Score predictions: catsmeow: 1 ekard: 3 lexa: 2 corbobb: 1 macksproject: 5

GODDAMN, this album would have been so good if it was literally any good, like any amount of good at all. Instead, its 7 songs formed of a basic drum loop and a single simplistic synth line that sounds like shit. Its definitely punk, in that they were way more interested in sounding like they were coming on "Girl" then they were in sounding any good. Frankie Teardrop is interesting, and I get what its trying to do, but I don't find it particularly compelling. Other bands would take everything this band did and run with it way harder and better then anything on this album. Listen to "High Pressure Days" by the Units, it came out three years later and is a way better example of Synthpunk. Bonus star for being the seminal album in one of my favorite genres ever, but listening to this and then swapping to Crystal Castles or You Love Her and you can see just how much could have been done but just wasn't.

It was decent until the 10 minute abomination that is Frankie Teardrop

Noisy, 80’s, synth/punk, and yet still boring

Look. This is so influential for the development of Synth pop music. I gotta hand it to that. I also gotta gonna say that the next song that came up on the auto queue on their next album was like 10x better. It makes me so conflicted ahhhh. Plus some songs were just terrible in the vocal parts. Nevertheless, very interesting album to have included

The instrumentals are so freaking good but the guy singing sounds like he's pushing one out on the toilet using an amazon podcast mic with the reverb turned up to 5000. Oof. 💀

Interesting and weird. Best description is they sound like and EXTREMELY edgy and dark Kraftwerk, but in English.

What even is this?

Started out fine and quickly went downhill.

Meh. I was onboard with a 3 at the start, but then we hit "Frankie Teardrop" and then it ended after a mere 32 minutes, so I can't get there. 2.2

Frankie isn’t enjoying this album very much

I too know what a loop is. Feels like an album that would appeal to someone who would make an album I like. Appreciate new ideas, but I still need to enjoy the song. No shade to Suicide. Rating: 3/10

5/10 Interesting ideas and good sound. Not my favorite but intriguing nonetheless.

Interesting, but hard to listen to. I can get how it was influential. Amazing that this is from 1977.

So boring and pointless which sucks for an album with a song called che

Suicide walked so NIN could run

There was some interesting sounds on here. But not worth another listen. At least it wasn't long

Day429 - it definitely sounds experimental. maybe take away some of the louder keyboards and it could be pretty good

Not the greatest album on this list and also one of the most mismatched names for a band ever. It's not a norwegian death metal, or at the very least bleak and depressing black metal from Sweden. It's just a random(?) rock band with a very boring and unimpressive music. There's no other words to describe it, because it's that bland.

I did not like this album, which is probably a sign that it achieved what it set out to do?

I don't know who this is for. It started out kind of OK, but then slowly devolved into sort of a throbbing backbeat with the singer kind of moaning and heavy breathing. I think he was literally masturbating on the song Girl. It was vaguely uncomfortable. As far as I can tell, Johnny is just him repeating the name Johnny for three minutes. Frankie Teardrop tries, I think, to tell some sort of story? But the random, very loud, distorted screams are kind of stupid. Like, it's not a rock song scream, it's just screaming for the sake of it. I appreciate the decency of it only being 32 minutes, but it just kind of drones on. It's kind of like if Elvis discovered Pro Tools and was 30% more pervy.

This is one of those albums that is on this list due to historical significance. Apparently it was used to inspire the work of a lot of others that came after it. That's one of the downfalls I think of this list. I won't argue that this album has historical significance and important in the music timeline... But is it really that enjoyable and something you must listen to? Probably not.

Not into it

Really different than I was expecting and could have been so much worse.

Bro why are you screaming 😭

Well, this was ok to be fair. Apart from Frankie Teardrop, which was woeful. Not rushing out to the record store for this one I’m afraid.

Low on the enjoyment scale.

Nope. Points for experimental originality I guess, but this just isn't doing anything for me. Sounds like arthouse keyboard karaoke night.

Not my cup of tea.

Interesting art rock but got weird when he started talking albouy killing his 6 month old kid and wife

Kinda better than expected from just the name and title but overall not very engaging and I found it quite soulless. I guess they already died inside or something *forced laughter*

It's okay, a little quiet for my liking. needs to add some wind to its sails I think, but it's fine. 2/5 stars.

Real odd, not a fan

Chli repetitiv. Sicher zimli krass für damals aber haut mi nöd vode socke

Ok

Whenever this list throws up anything from 1975 -1987 that I don't know my expectations aren't high. Those were my peak years glued to the radio, buying a metric shit ton of records so even if I'm not a fan I know the artist. When it's an unknown with the word experimental attached to it I'm starting to get nervous. At least it's only 32 minutes long. It bettered my expectations, by they were low.

Suicide is a bone of contention for Luke and me. I've never liked them and he is very into it. I did not like this album and did not get it. He said it was because I wasn't listening on headphones and therefore wasn't hearing the depth. I'm not sure that was it, it was boring music that's why and it sounded like the lyrics were improvised, but bad. It's a no from me

Never heard of Suicide or of electronica in ‘77. The repetitive base line made for a good (short) exercise session. Frankie Teardrop is disturbing (and too long). Album has a somber finish (2.4*s)

Very boring. After reading about it I understand, that it was quite important for the evolution of synth pop in the 80s. But still ... oh, so very boring.

2a, Köper att det var avant garde och nyskapande när det kom, men inte ett album jag skulle sätta på hemma. En hel del coola sound dock. Däremot blir den jävla trummaskinen blir tröttsam väääldigt fort! Varför går den genom HELA albumet.

cool ideas, but hard to get through

Sort of half and half on this album. Songs with melody were pretty good, and very forward-thinking for 1977. However the more experimental noise songs didn't do it for me, which seemed to comprise most of the album.

Not bad until the guy started having an orgasm

I kept waiting for these songs to burst into some rock & roll, but instead just long drawn out intros that never turn into anything. Feels like an art project, and these were just some backing noises for this guy's poems. That's fine, just wasn't feeling it.

Weird, experimental, and creative. The kind of album I'm glad to be recommended, and don't regret listening to, but have zero interest in revisiting. Probably would have given a 3 if not for the repeated loud screaming jump scares in Frankie Teardrop.

First track is great then it kinda fails major. Frankie Teardrop is a tough annoying listen. Historically significant but lacks substance.

Heavily experimental use of synth/electro sounds in the late 70s -- this feels like a concept album through and through. Can't say it holds up all that well 50+ years later, but I respect it for being different, and for serving as inspiration for other artists like Springsteen and Spacemen 3.

1.7 just for innovation faves: ghost rider

The first song Ghost Rider caught my attention quickly, especially since I have loved the comic book character ghost Rider as a teenager. matter of fact, my daughter just got me to go to comic books for the holidays. The hard part I had with this entire album was I felt like they were gonna be dropping the beat and it was just gonna release at some point and it never did. There was a lot of strong punk influence having been made right in the Golden Age of punk, which only lasted less than two years. But some also felt a little before it’s time echoing some of the early keyboard signs of OMD and Pet Shop Boys. It felt like the missing link between Lou Reed, Sex Pistols and modern techno-pop. I don’t know how often listen to this one, but it was a fun listen.

Random thoughts: * Cheree is on a "Wake Up" playlist from Sonos that I listen to frequently. That song is quite good. * I had to bail on this one, Frankie Teardrop was just too much. * I'm sure this offered something new and influenced others but I prefer to skip this one and just hear the influenced.

I was kinda digging it. Nice synth punk shoegaze Heard a bit of LCD Soundsystem influence as well. Unfortunately, then Frankie Teardrop came on, which is unlistenable pretentious shite.

Most of the songs sound similar, felt like I was listening to the same instrumental with different lyrics

"synth pop", but mostly echoey/atmospheric rythyms with mellow/screamy vocals

Don’t think I’ll ever go out of my way or want to listen to this again, but man does it create a very specific energy. Odd and off putting, but so unique and ahead of its time. Happy to have heard but don’t want to touch again, 2.5

I did not like this very much, especially the last two songs. Feels experimental, a precursor to shoegaze (which I don't like) but also inspirational to some groups I do like, like LCD Soundsystem. There's also a hint of doo-wap in some of the songs, like Johnny, whoch happens to be my favorite here. Shout out to the Donkey Kong sample here, that's neat.

The artist/album name and the cover makes this sound like a brutal punk album but it’s really just half an hour of moaning over industrial bass distortion

Would be FAR better without the vocals. Highlights: Cheree

The same synth sounds on every track made this album very boring and very repetitive

suicide by suicide das tönt doch schomal speziell, hans den aber meh schreiend und dröhnend erwarted alses den cho isch chöntmer als hintergrund musig bimene britische punk drug movie bruche maybe aber ezt so zum eimal durelose langets mir au hans im zimmer gloset wärend vor minnere tür mini mitbewohnerin gschaffet hett, han scho denkt wasi söll sege wenni den usem zimmer chume

There's some punk vibes and I would describe it as synth punk. Some interesting lyrics but overall I didn't like it for it's repetitive songs.

Oof. Really represents how I'm feeling on this very specific day.

Levyn kolme ensimmäistä raitaa kuunneltavia. Siitä sitten yhtä tuskaa kuunnella loppulevy ja jälleen tarvitsee ihmetellä mitä vittua tämä levy tekee tässä listauksessa.

It had some nice psychedelic sounds in it but it left me feeling deeply unsettled and not in a way that was enjoyable 😅

Welp, this was a little weird. It was mostly boring tones but Frankie Teardrop definitely got my attention.

A bad combination of both weird and boring

Sounds like 2 dudes being in a garage, one jams in the back and the other speaks some words into a microphone with a lot of reverb... Okay?

10/2/24. Don't think this was a bad album, but wasn't really feeling it. Interesting sounds, but felt a bit repetitive and stale after a while.

I really tried. I listened to this album a few times and I wanted to like it more than I did. It was okay

Ghost Rider is a really cool song. Nothing else comes close to being as enjoyable to me.

This is electronic rock, or synth punk? The band consists of 2 guys: The singer, and one "multi-instrumentalist". Because of this the musical accompaniment is super simplistic, usually consisting of a highly distorted synth loop, and a drum machine. Very weird. It isn't something I would ever rush out to listen to, but this is like the starts of industrial rock, post punk, or synth pop. Some songs are God awful, but some aren't bad. Like the song "Girl" is horrible. It's the singer saying: " oh girl, turn me on" followed by moaning and banging noises, all this while a synth loop plays. Then the next song after Girl, called Frankie Teardrop, is about a dude who kills his wife and kids, then himself. It is a 10 minute looped synth while the singer tells the story about how buddy went about this. Every time he killed someone, and then himself, the singer fucking screams.... and I mean screams..... into the microphone. At this point I think I've lost all hearing in my right ear.... This is a weird one for sure..... Favourite songs: Johnny, Cheree Least favourite songs: Girl, Frankie Teardrop 2/5

Added one track to 1001 Experience Playlist and got the hell out of dodge. This harkens back to a different place in my life and it's filled me with anxiety

Snarky review: This is what The Doors sound like to someone who doesn't like The Doors. Real review: The drums pulse with such frequency that it reminds me of a pump cavitating. The lyrics seem meant to shock, but they kind of come off as grade school (a la "Frankie Teardrop"). It's interesting, in a way, but it's nothing I think I'll revisit. Favorite track: "Rocket USA"

don't waste my time, man.

i dunno about this one, guys. i wanted to like it due to how weird it was and how much other people didn't like it, but it was too much even for me. there's some interesting stuff here with early electronic music and the punk/avant-garde aesthetic where you start putting elements together and being like oh yeah this is gonna work so well (since it seems great on paper) but then you end up with the musical equivalent of a looney tunes cartoon where wile e. coyote runs off a cliff and just stands there looking at the camera helpless for a second before plummeting to the ground. i blame it entirely on the 10-minute murder song. it's a third of your total album runtime! what were you thinking?! it's only scary because of how bad the song is!!! favorites: ghost rider

Alright, let's start here: instrumentally, this whole record SOUNDS pretty ahead of its time. Could be that synth-pop was still somewhat in its infancy around this era. It's all pretty minimalist in the production too, with some obvious nods to 50's rock melodies, somehow sounding simultaneously classic and modern. That being said, I didn't care too much for the trying-to-be-Elvis-like talk singing vocals. It somehow got more uncomfortable as the record went on. I don't think anything of value would've been lost if this was just purely instrumental.

Meh- I had a hard time getting through this one for some reason

Qué chucha. 4/10

It’s an interesting album and I can appreciate the influence it made to minimalist synth pop, the slow low synth keyboard below disjointed spoken vocals isn’t for me. 2/5 because of the historical significance.

Not horrendous put not really that good. And certainly a bit off putting of a title and band name.

DO NOT play Girl in public! I guess that’s what I get for listening to a band called Suicide at work. More melodramatic than dark as I expected from the name, and the music loops are kinda grating

What an eh album. Nothing particularly bad about it, just very bland and had a sort of white noise in the background of all the songs. Also weird that they had a remaster in 2009 and 2017 on Apple, who remasters something that frequently? Especially something like this.

Oh man, this started out with so much promise. The opening track has such an incredible guitar tone, I was hooked. But slowly but surely, it just lost me. Very melodramatic punky, melodies buried under noise, it just didn't have much for me to hold on to. I could've swore "Cheree" was a cover, but in hindsight I think it's just that it reminded me of that "Louie, Louie" song. Anyway, yeah, disappointed with this one overall. Not the worst, not even bad necessarily, and damn that first track rips, but as an album, I'm unmoved. Favorite tracks: Ghost Rider, Cheree. Album art: It's just the band/album name written with a bunch of blood dripping off and around it. Nothing too special, but it works. 2.5/5

My partner's review: "Could've done without all the moaning"

Umm no words, strange

Could have been great, it wasn’t

Første nummer var interessant og legende... de resterende numre præsterede ikke at sælge ideen om at det var en kunstner jeg skulle bruge en masse tid på at lytte fremover.

Not to sure what to make of this, in many ways it was way ahead of it's time but it's pretty dire to actually listen to. I don't think I minded the sound, lots of it was pretty straightforward but the low fi synth sound is pretty impressive for the late seventies. But the singing, lyrics and the length of some of the songs were grating, to the point that who cares if it sounds slightly more modern than you'd expect. I think 2.5 but closer to a 2.

I greatly admire the effort they've gone to to frequently produce music that is utterly unlistenable. A real commitment. Frankie Teardrop was something else. Incredibly innovative for the time, bizarre but +1 for effort. Something different.

Didn't do much for me. Think it's probably one of them that would've been a lot more interesting in 1977 than it is now. Thought the opening few tracks were better than the end, which grated on me a bit.

I didn't get it

2.5

The first track had me convinced. Unusually, the impression didn't last. For an album with such a provocative name and image, it's kinda... nothingy. Seems like they recorded one the beat of them rattling a shopping trolley and called it a day. The principal emotion quickly became discomfort after Girl - this generator seems to read my mind so often but this time, please, I'm begging it to stop with the sex nosie albums for a bit

It's one sound for 32 minutes. It does not spark joy

This album somehow achieved being simultaneously boring and short. It is hard to rate the innovativeness of this album in the late '70s. Nevertheless, I am sure of one thing - being innovative does not always mean being good. I don't need more unexpected screaming - especially after ~30 minutes of monotonous music.

I respect that this was somewhat groundbreaking and 1977 and that's probably why this is on this list, but it was another one that was hard to finish. The first song was alright. Second song, not too bad. But as another reviewer mentioned - it's like each song is worse than the one before it. The last few were pretty unlistenable, and a 10 minute "Frankie Teardrop" was....something. Girls might still be worse - can't say for sure, and I'm definitely not going to listen again.

Unusual, but not especially interesting to me. Frankie Teardrop painful to listen to - boring, overlong, preachy, and topped off with some obnoxious shrieks, and it is one-third of the 32 minutes of this album. Perhaps Suicide did kick off a new genre of synth, but I think I would prefer to hear a more developed sound.

Some interesting sounds, not something I would listen to regularly. The lyrics are wild, and one song is just outright weird. The synths and sounds are interesting though, but all follow the same feel

Þetta er alveg töff hljóðheimur í hófi, og eflaust mikill áhrifavaldur, en ég nenni ekki að hlusta á þessa plötu í heilu lagi aftur.

I see why it is influential, but it's a bit too strange

So unsettling. It’s only on here for “artistic merit” cause otherwise it is not a good album by any measure. Loved walking around town while he was screaming and killing his family and himself.

2.5

If the album didn’t have Girl into Frankie Teardrop it might have been a 3 but those two songs gave me aids back2back. Besides that was def a unique album with some cool songs

I appreciate people pushing boundaries in art, but this was a rough listen and not for me. I did enjoy the screams though - they were jarring and visceral.

Lo fi, dark, atmospheric. Reminiscent of Vanishing Point to Evil Heat era Primal Scream. It's ok, but I won't be listening again. Rating: 2.5/5 Playlist track: Cheree Date listened: 18/05/24

Cheree // 2.5/5

I understand why it's influential and important, I just don't really want to listen to it...

While trying to decide between 1 and 2 I thought that, y'know, at least it was relatively unique. This is the first album I've laughed out loud to all year (thanks to Frankie Teardrop). So I'll give it a 2

It was meh. The first song was good, but then it got weird.

2.5

Surprisingly super lo-fi and repetitive for a rock album. Should almost be under electronic.

I'm all for the dark stuff, but this makes Nine Inch Nails Look like Abba. Very one-dimensional.

In 1977, this would have blown people's minds. I understand the historical inclusion. The album starts off strong and quickly meanders into chaos, and not in a pleasing way.

Just fairly horrible all round. They can play pretty well, and there was enough interesting and melodic guitar in places to scrape it into the two star banding, but it was, it's fair to say, not for me.

great sample pack here

Some interesting Synth Pop parts but Overall to depressingly slow.

Sometimes a great idea can be so ahead of its time that it physically cannot be achieved at that time. That’s exactly the issue with Suicide. Because the idea is great, I really like the idea, but the execution….falls incredibly short. What this album actually sounds like is nothing close to how it could’ve sounded in theory, and the result is too primitive and too underdeveloped. The fact that it falls short actually does make it an important milestone, but it’s an incredibly hard listen to my ears today.

This was... weird. Way ahead of time and amazing how they created this relatively modern sound with the simple tools they had. Nonetheless, not my kind of stuff.

Meh. So what if this influenced a lot of mediocre synth pop bands?

I thought it was newer than 1977, but it still isn't particularly good. More interesting than the last couple we've had, but also a lot more unpleasant  I enjoy the experimentation enough that it gets a 2 rather than a 1, but really really do not understand how this gets anywhere near the best albums from the 1970s.

Was not able to get the songs to have meaning. Waste of an interesting band name