Reviews (page 7 of 8)
I held off on this one because I didn’t want to listen to an album called suicide at work. I wasn’t missing anything.
what a headache
Some would say it's experimental, others would say it's sound for me, definitely sound. I'm not against this album's inclusion in the list but man I didn't enjoy listening to this.
Possibly one of the worst things I've heard. In terms of composition and and listen-ability it's just not there for me.
This is the 95th album I’m rating. Cool name. Very metal. Adding to my Playlist - Nothing. Not Adding to my Playlist - Ghost Rider, Rocket U.S.A., Cheree, Johnny, Girl, Frankie Teardrop, and Che. All in all I liked 0/7 songs. This was awful.
Another awful album that has no place on the list. Did the editor if the book actually listen to this or what? Terrible
This is torture music
Aaah you can really hear the inspiration for Bruce Springsteen's I'm on fire on all of this album
Какой-то сумасшедший дом!
Is awful.
I get the significance of this album and its impact on electronic/industrial music. In a sense, Suicide walked so NIN could run. However, the entire runtime of this is insanely obtuse. The tracks are nearly identical, and they leave a lot to be desired. I can't think of many instances where I'm left laughing at an album, but the random screams on Frankie Teardrop took me out every time. I try not to think of this albums in terms of relistenability, but holy shit - i will never sit down with this again. The funny thing is, I've already listened to it once before during the No Dogs in Space series on Suicide, and even then I didn't feel impacted by it at all. It's an interesting case when the argument for something's significance is the effect it had on its successors - but in this case of Suicide, I can't bring myself to appreciate it as it is. 3/10
A totally unrewarding experience - musically malnourished, and lyrically a bit juvenile.
An aptly named album because, by the end of it, I wanted to toaster-bath myself. I was going to give it a 2 but then my ears were assaulted by the 10 minute toilet bowl fetus that is "Frankie Teardrop" which barely even counts as a song. It sounds like someone just recorded a meth addict ranting and screaming outside of an abandoned power plant whilst the crickets do their hopeless best to drown him out. For context, the album is only 32 minutes long so an entire third of it is spent listening to whatever that was supposed to be. I understand "experimenting". But sometimes you get Tomorrow Never Knows, and sometimes you get whatever this is. The experiment was a failure. Time to revise the hypothesis.
Really found myself not enjoying this album. The instrumentation was fine but repetitive at parts. The singing was bad. It definitely had a punk / avant gard lean but I dont think it accomplished it well. I was definitely tired of listening by the end of tbe album. Overall- 1.5/5. I could see how this album might have influenced some artists, but it really wasnt for me
Apt named
Horrible Depressing and not good Not even music its spiken words experimental type of poetry and a yoko ono wannabe
Yo that Frankie song sucked so much. Took away what little stars i was even considering giving this. Boring repetitive, weird vocals. Imma pass
This is really bad. I don't give out 1-star reviews lightly, but Suicide is a textbook example of one. No development of musical ideas, essentially no melody, terrible low-effort singing, each track being exactly one chord and one loop... Seriously, you only have to listen to one measure of each of these songs to understand the entire track. The remaining 99% of the song fills you with boredom and utter despair. The song Girl is somehow made even worse than this, specifically via the lyrics being delivered in a nauseating "drunk-horny" voice. Frankie Teardrop is another rough track, pitting the listener off again ten and a half minutes of monotone industrial noise and indistinct screaming. A "milestone in electronic music"? I don't think so. 1977 was a pretty incredible year for musical progress in general, with David Bowie's Low being a key electronic milestone. This pales, violently, in comparison. Listen, I understand – music is always subjective – but this is about as close to objectively bad as music can get. 1/5 Key tracks: none
A hugely influential album with 0 good songs anyone wants to listen to is still a bad album.
These aren’t songs. And I hated listening to them.
7 Lazy Songs, the only one that gets a chance and is after listening to "Girl" and "Frankie Tredriper," is Che. I can understand that, for its time, it influenced other bands like NIN, but as a commercial album and a classic? I don't think so. It's minimalist and calm — if you try to relax with this album, suddenly a scream between the songs interrupts everything. You can't relax, you can't feel the songs, you can't get into what the album is supposed to bring. I don't even want to talk about "Girl" and "Frankie" — they are trash.
I can confidently say that this album is abysmal. I got about halfway through Cheree and thought "surely this is the worst song on the album". It sounded more like an interlude than a song, the moaning whispery singing was cringey at best. But then it continues to devolve into more of the same garbage and a couple songs manage to top Cheree. The songs Girls and Frankie's Teardrop were difficult to sit through.
Boring and weird
Hot garbage. This made me mad.
Favourite Track: Ghost Rider A very subversive, strange, and a bit disorienting sound. Frankie Teardrop is not a track for the weak, the screaming and crying paired with lyrics about a man who snaps and kills his family is uncomfortable and genuinely scary (especially with the industrial, dense organs in the background). Fun to play in the minivan on your next road trip, a real treat for the whole family. In terms of the rest of the album, the minimalist synth riffs really test my patience with how tedious the build-up is. But it is interesting that they couldn't afford synths and instead used an organ through a fuzz box as a solution. Overall, a very uneasy listen. Historically significant sure, but I'm unfortunately not a fan.
If Taxi Driver, Midnight Cowboy, and Chinatown had an album. Gritty 70s meets (or predicts) synth 80s. There is an appeal, just none with me.
Can see how it was so influential and I'm a big fan of late 70s punk...but meh.
Unbelievably bad. You just wait for each song to reach its peak and it never does. Constant moaning into the mic. No
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keine Melodie, keine Harmonie, keine Entwicklung -> kein Interesse
A complete nothing of an album
Awful noise
The songs didn't resonate with me at first. Tracks like Cheree felt like they were on the verge of something great but didn't quite get there. The lyrics were odd, and seemed almost improvised. I decided to listen again to see if I was missing something. I preferred it the second time around and was more aware of the influences drawn from this record that were present in albums by other musicians. For that reason, I'd give it a 3 after a second listen My original rating was 1
Terrible
At least it was short but WTF did I just listen to?
I didn't enjoy this. Mostly noise and screaming, with a little bit of music sprinkled in. One star.
The first two tracks were about all you can take of Suicide by Suicide. The rest falls off really quick and is not enjoyable at all, the whole album is rather abrasive and harsh. I'm not sure why I needed to hear this before I die, I guess it was a new sound for the late 70's but that still doesn't make it worthy. I also don't see how this noise claims to have influenced Bruce Springsteen and the cover art is terrible. Please don't let Frankie kill his kid. 0.5 for being unnecessarily dark and creepy.
Ok this started out interesting. Opening track had potential and was some new sound. Continued on with some more enginuitiy and liked the creative stereo usage in "Johnny" but after that, took a nose dive straight into the depths of hell. Lead creeper sliming all over some chick and annoying static maracas throughout most tracks. WTF "Frankie Teardrop"...you trying to scare piss outta me?! 0.8 stars for being inventive and maybe paving some kind of road for future electronic acts?
Not sure what the allure of this one is (if any). Kinda sounds like you are listening to someone on a PA system with minor electronic feedback coming in. I guess that's a unique sound but not sure its one that I need at all. Somehow this was a slog at just over 30 minutes. Not a fan of any form of Suicide. .75 stars
pile of shite
Not my genre. Can see it being influential having come out in ‘77 but it’s a concept that been expounded and taken to new heights in more engaging ways to me.
Det har var weird och för det mesta inte på ett angenämt sätt. Vissa delar var väl lite intressanta men det är det mest positiva jag kan säga. Kanske var jag i fel sinnesstämning för stunden men det var inget jag uppskattade.
Ugh! Horrible and hard to listen to as I don't call screaming, music.
I wish I'd known this name was a pre-listen suggestion. Terrible in all the worst ways.
The whole album is like a 3 ir a 2, but this one AWFUL track with the incessant screaming makes it a 1.
For the album to be titled “Suicide,” my guy was having quite a few relations with the opposite sex, if you catch my drift. Some songs had catchy sounds and beats (Johnny), but the majority of the lyrics were too personal and disturbing. ⭐️
This is cover-your-ears awful. I couldn't quite get through the whole thing, broke down and turned it off halfway through the last track. It's kind ambient, echo-y garage rock with a singer who can't sing at all. And as it goes on it gets less and less serious, to the point where by the last few tracks it's like an extended album-length version of the part of the Doors song "The End" where the wheels just completely fall off.
Not loving this one, definitely touching on harsh topics and it just sounded rough.
These sound like songs that South Park created to make fun of goth/punk kids. The name of the band/album really captures the feeling you get when you listen to this.
Not for me.
Feels like the same stuff over and over. Synth, beat, and then a shout of “woo!”.
I will not promote nor listen to a band with this name.
I listened to their second album because that’s what Google chose for me. Very repetitive and same sounding. Then I listened to a live recording but quite honestly I had to give that up for my sanity so I won’t be trying any more, I’m done ! 1*
Just because an album is allegedly “ahead of it time” does not mean it is good. And this one is not.
Listening to this album felt like I walked in on someone jacking it to some freaky ass shit and was forced to stay and watch for 32 minutes
Oh. Oh wow. I genuinely try to give every album its fair chance, making it to the end in case there’s a hidden gem waiting. But this? I had to stop. It provoked such a visceral reaction in me that I simply couldn’t continue. If you’re a fan, that’s great—music’s subjective after all—but I hated it. Absolutely hated it. Standout Track: I guess… the first one? Score: 1/5
I understand this is ahead of its time, but I am genuinely concerned for anyone who actually listens to this in their free time.
Ronnie McNutt's final speech Even my own mother! Oh mama, I know you’re listenin, you’re watchin, because it’s too much of a good show. But, you didn’t even reach out when I needed you. You didn’t even reach out. Now everybody wants to act like I’m important, now everybody wants to act like I’m significant, everybody wants to act like I’ve got some kind of value. Nobody treated me like it before tonight. Every single one of you. Buck, what about you man? Like you wanna keep messaging me? Buck, what about the time whenever I tried to work for you at Best Buy, you remember that? You remember that, man? Like, I’m one of the best damn managers in Tupelo, man. One of the best damn managers in Tupelo. And you wouldn’t even give me the time of day. Wouldn’t even give me the time of day. So yeah, you wanna like bring up that I convinced you about managers, that hey here you are man, like, you wouldn’t- you wouldn’t even give me the chance. Wouldn’t even give me the chance. I wanna tell you man, like I know, I know how good I am. I know how good I am, Buck. I’m good. When it comes to management, I’m good, man. You can ask, Jason Frucci. You can ask, Robert Bryant. You can ask, Johnny Lassiter even though he’ll prolly tell you that, y’know I couldn’t deal with his bullshit. But, y’know, at the end of the day I’m good. I’m good when it comes to management. But yeah, you wanna message me and say I convinced you about bad management? But yeah, no, you don’t wanna like actually give me a shot to show you how good I am. I tell you what, somebody call the cops in New Albany and tell them they get uh- ah- Autumn Russell to call me like, I will walk outta here right now. Yeah kid, it’s funny how like, whenever somebody’s reachin the end of the road all of a sudden you’re sorry. I don’t even know half you people tryna call me. Fooreal. Yeah, you wanna talk to me now? Mhm, yeah you wanna talk to me now? Oh, is that the way you’re gonna be? Hey guys, I guess that’s it.
é um álbum bem ruim mesmo. Com certeza é o filho de alguém que pediu ao pai um tempinho na gravadora para gravar o álbum. Tenta ser muito cult e acaba só sendo cringe mesmo.
possivelmente o pior álbum que eu já escutei na vida, queria dar 0 para esse lixo
Probably influential but not my cup of tea
Boy, two terrible albums in a row. This was an awful listen.
Punk-rock electrónico. Ruido. No me ha gustado nada. Un 1.
stopped when he started whimpering on Girl, this is terrible, this sounds like Lou Reed at his worst and it’s not even Lou Reed I hate u
Pre-listening thoughts: what a terrible album and band name. I feel like I’m gonna hate this actually Post/during listening thoughts: anddd within the first 10 seconds I already hate it. Instruments are so sparse it’s like they could only afford one per song. Vocals are headache inducing. These song arrangements are just vile. Someone owes me compensation for having to sit through that entire thing. Honestly might be just as bad as Bjork. 0.5/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: NO and like I’m wondering what possessed someone to put this on the list. Fav tracks: I have to add one of these to my playlist and I'm upset about that. Least fav tracks: every one of them
Some of the songs were okay - metal rock - but most of them had too much talk-singing for me. The Frankie song was way too screamy.
Made me wanna commit… fraud
Ugh, hated this. Super similar instrumentals with repetitive vocals and one song with a lot of awkward moaning
Not great.
Painostava ja stressaava. Ei missään nimessä jatkoon!
The most pointless album I’ve ever sat through
I don't feel the most confident about an album with this name, but the time period is at least tolerable IDK i skipped a song not the worst ever but not one I'll listen to again.
Nope.
Finally, an album that answers the question, "What if the Jesus and Mary Chain sucked a lot?" Probably novel in the 70s, but now it's a mostly unlistenable art installation. Let's hear it for Frankie.
I wanna give zero points but i cant so unfortunetaly 1.
Not for me. The drum leaves were far too repetitive. It didn't feel like any of the songs went anywhere. I don't have any idea as to why this album is on this list.
I don't get this. I always thought they were about to break down and start screaming but they never did
Absolutely terrible. I need to bleach my ears after this.
The albums it inspired are far more important for people to listen to than this one.
-1/5
Pretty boring stuff.
Appreciated it as a signpost for future music, but that was not a fun hang
To all the fans of this album, i have a question. So, to all of you, What did you see in this album? Because whatever it is you saw, i didn't see it. This album was just pure agony to listen to. The songs all use the same basic melody for pretty much their whole runtime and they barely add anything. This would have been a little more tolerable if they were short, which most of them are, but Frankie Teardrop is 10 MINUTES LONG so that made that unbearable. The vocals also make me feel really uncomfortable (and not in a good way), and while the lyrics might be the best part of the album, they are not great. How this album became considered a classic is beyond me, Hard Pass. Best Song: Che Worst Song: Frankie Teardrop
Another head scratchers; why remaster? Putting a rose in a pile of shit won’t change the stink on my shoes. Whatever…
This is AWFUL! No musicianship, no musical talent, just homogenized synth-pop. Garbage.
Awful
the only thing working is the name because i wanted to kill my self the whole time. The vocals are bad and everything just feels off. like literally off beat like why would you do that. it just pissed me off
So this experiment has taught me that I really don’t like noise disguised as music.
I really wanted to give this more than a 1, but I can't. It's another instance where a band influenced a ton of other artists I love (Depeche Mode, Daft Punk, Nine Inch Nails, the list goes on), but I just can't understand the appeal. I guess that's why those other folks are music legends, and I'm just sitting here wondering what the hell I just listened to. 1/5
There's something lacking in this that's making it less enjoyable. It's too minimalist for my taste. The echoey talk-singing is not my thing either, with such short lines it's too jarring. I was going to give this a 2 but Frankie Teardrop was agonizing to listen to.
Is this a joke?
I listened to the remastered version. Why the hell would anyone bother remastering this crap.
This was terrible
que puta porquería, esto es lo que uno escucharía en un open mic en chris pizza a las 2:00 am de un skater cogio en pichi. 2/10
Cool name cool album art, bad everything else
Remember that musical instrument trolley you had a primary school in like year 2? Well this whole album sounds like the trolleys been left in the woods and a load of angry little woodland crickets have found it! Right when you think you’ve heard the worst possible album on this project, up pops another contender! 0.8
at first i was gonna give this a 3 because it was just whatever. then it dropped down to a 2 because it wasn’t great. and then girl and frankie teardrop played and it was unsalvageable. just absolute shit from a butt
This is trash ... nothing redeeming about this :/
Well I know what I'm playing next time I want to harsh the vibes horribly
The left too many notes
Suicide’s Debütalbum von 1977 ist ein Beispiel für Synth-Punk und minimalistische Elektronik. Die minimalistischen Rhythmen und der expressive Gesang können für traditionelle Musikliebhaber anstrengend und unzugänglich sein. Tracks wie “Frankie Teardrop” oder “Girl” sind besonders intensiv und verstörend. Das muss ich mir nicht mehr freiwillig antun
Hell no.
#1 on the list of WORST. Gross. Stop right now.
It's called Suicide because that's what I'd rather do than listen to this ever again. At least it was short.
I don't know what to even say other than it's not my thing.
Experimental is fine. But there has to be SOMETHING to grasp on to. There is nothing here. Actually nothing.
Rock, experimental, 1977 -> 1
Absolutely dreadful
I might change my mind on this eventually but right now, it's very meh.
I did like some of the stereo usage but when that's the compliment I find for an album it's not a great sign. The best part of this is probably how short it is. I do think this makes sense being on the list due to it being fairly unique but I can't really say I enjoyed almost any of this. It's an experience.
First thing that came to mind is that this feels like a deconstructed version of The Doors. So it's like a double shit sandwich. To be honest no one NEEDS this but I am glad people try things.
Another challenging album
Nah it really sank in the second half, it was only 32 minutes and felt like a life time
Hm, dann doch lieber Slayer :)
This is the absolute worst music I've ever had to listen to
First I thought it´s just ok, but "Frankie Teardrop" made it almost unlistenable for me.
1. rider - 0 2. rocket - 0 3. cheree - 0 4. johny - 0 5. girl - 0 6. teardrop - 0 7. che - 0
The title speaks for itself. It feels like an intro to an album, so please tell me - where is the actual album?
This is the kind of album you give to your worst enemy. Middling 1.
Not good
It's a bit like a sixth form art project, while it's an interesting listen, none of the songs seem to get into their stride, it sounds like an exceptional album of long intros, I could imagine all of these, bursting into something that could become classic, but they never seem to take off, they just run out of runway, and slide across the field embarrassingly. They're like experimental JJ Cale, but without the interesting guitar, subject matter or voice. There's an over reliance on effects and synth effects to keep the interest, and it doesn't work. Like Django Django without the hook, bop or chorus. Towards the end it gets really shit.
Yeah... not for me. A challenge to listen to, but not in a way I found intriguing or expanding. It's interesting to read in the wiki entry that it seems to be considered a great album which makes me wonder what I am missing. I also keep seeing that it's influential, and I am struggling to see that too. Maybe for a genre I am not well versed in, or a time period I am less familiar with maybe?
I wanted to give this album another chance because it's allegedly very influential on my favorite acts. Somebody is lying to me, man. This shit is awful and barely registers as music to me at all
big oof. is this just over my head? its kinda cool to hear 70's electronica but it sounds like music you'd hear traveling through a wormhole and you're beyond terrified. I birst out laughing at some of the noises and screeches but thankfully I wasnt wearimg headphones.
What the fuck is this shit?
“Ooooh look at us! We’re really provocative. Look at our naaame!!! Hear the track where we basically scream for 3 minutes. Ooooh what will we do neeext?!?!?” It’s a shame. There is something interesting there. Sitting in that Joy Division crossroads of punk and electronic. But mostly it’s unlistenable tripe.
"was universally panned in the United States, where it failed to chart" ... yeah, no kidding. It's terrible!
Avec ce titre et ce cover, m'attendais à du scream ou de la destruction totale d'enceinte. À mon grand étonnement, que j'ai trouvé est de l'autre côté du spectrum. Cet album, c'est le festival de la Siesta, la soundtrack officiel du Snooze Fest de junkie. En à peine 10 minutes, la voix rugueuse, haletante et franchement perverse du chanteur, jumelé avec une instrumentation s'approchant d'un white noize blasé m'ont presque endormi en marchant. Si vous êtes victime d'insomnie et que vous souhaitez à tout prix rêver d'un pervers qui susurre dans vos oreille, cet album est pour vous!
very few times have i encountered an album that is mostly good, but the part that is bad is so bad that it ruins the entire thing
Only so long I can listen to a man making sex noises whilst talking about murder
The first album generated that I truly didn't vibe with. Slightly innovative melodic structures, but a truly annoying mix of rock/electronica (similar to ZZ Top's Eliminator 5 years later).
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Suicide by Suicide. Poetic, in a way. I felt half of my brain cells committing it, and the other half longing for it. Musical equivalent of scratching a mosquito bite bloody. It hurts. You don't want it. It does not stop. You feel worse than before. Please don't get me wrong, this album has no artistic quality or novelty. It just sounds bad and boring.
This just doesn't sound like an album of music intended for people to listen to, but rather a sort of a journal in the form of art reflecting the world seen through the eyes of the artist, their feelings and ideas. Which is a pretty cool thing to do, but again, it does not produce actual music anyone would want to hear.
70’s not
This honestly sounded like the preset buttons on a casio
bas album za samoubojstvo
Pretty boring. No drums. Uses gore and shock as its source of interest which is pretty cheap and easy. I suppose no one else really sounded like that at the time, but that doesn’t mean it’s good.
This sucks. Girl was the song that totally ruined this album for me. The fucking horseshit screaming on Frankie Teardrop really got this friday off to a shit start.
They'd get better in the second album with songs like "Dream Baby Dream", but this... this ain't it. Basic, monotonous, beats straight from a Casio keyboard and the blown out screaming in "Frankie Teardrops" is enough to plunge this into the depths for me.
This album was terrible
Terrible weekend of music for me. I think this is my first one star. Unlistenable.
Just awful. Hate everything about it.
zwischendurch hat der Sänger schon kräftige Schmerzen und zu wenig geraucht ...
just an absolute waste of time
This was an album with good loops that didn't develop into anything and had questionable at best vocals on top. Honestly Frankie Teardrop wasn't as bad as I was expecting from the other reviews, it was long, but it was mostly the same as the other songs with a few screams added, not a positive, but not quite the unlistenable wtf material other people described it as. I will say this is an album that if I heard someone put it on I'd probably request a skip, and question their taste.
Bleh
There’s not any situation in life I would or could ever find myself or being able to recommend to someone to listen to. Why this is on a list saying it’s a MUST, makes this list pretty much null and void. If I started with album I would have never even kept on going.
Umm well this certainly was shit. It is a 30 minute album. One song is over 10 minutes which was very difficult to hear and was pointless. Stay away.
Nah I’m good
don't never make me listen to moaning and screaming layered over thinly veiled beats ever again this shit was shit
Nostalgia train, otherwise I don't see the appeal.
Suicide is crap. Can't use electronica and synth to create driving anticipation in several tracks without ever kicking into another gear, there's no tempo change, no variety in how loud or soft the sound gets, just ends up being marginally better than something any of us could knock up on a kid's play keyboard. Shit 'vocals' too.
Yuk
Yesterday I got Peter Tosh. My review was, it's too repetitive. Now this... Some kind of proto house music or something. I think I understand why it's on the list, because it has a weird atmosphere unlike anything else I know. Doesn't mean I like it.
Fitting name, boring ah album
Ghost Rider - 2 Rocket USA - 1.5 Cheree - 1 Johnny - 2.5 Girl - 1.5 Frankie Teardrop - 1.5 Che - 2 Average - 1.71
Dog shit. Worst album on the list 0/10
Feels like it’s just constantly building up but no beat drop or changeup. Blue balling tf outa me. Sounds like something I could make in garage band in less then 30 min. Frankie teardrop is fucking wild 😭. The hardest listen of my life.
Just not good
At first, I thought It would be a cool ambient vibe but no; just no. I don't know why it's on this list tbh. I powered through but god, 'Frankie Teardrop ' was absolutely awful. This is not for me.
ok
Sounds like a teenager in his bedroom with a Casio keyboard
After listening to this, I nearly did…
I don't think this is the worst album I have heard on here, but it's a contender! Seriously WTF?
There's a fine line between music and sound. Not sure which side this album is on...
Ok, I acknowledge that it sounds quite timeless and obviously was something very different in 1977. But, seriously, this is more sounds with feverish barking and wailing on top of it, than it is music, and it is definitely not for me.
This sounds like bad karaoke.
Note even music some times
Zelfmoord is inderdaad wel wat je gaat overwegen door dit album
Wat een grafmuziek
Thanks, I hate it.
Scary and weird 0 stars
Wat een raar album is dit zeg. Er zijn nauwelijks lyrics, de muziek klinkt vreemd en buitenaards en er valt voor mij nog niet echt een thema ofzo te ontdekken... Misschien ligt het aan mij, maar ik word hier niet heel wild van eerlijk gezegd. Frankies Teardrop is een theatervoorstelling, of een grap, of wat dan ook. Het is in elk geval geen muziek. Ik snap dat dit ontzettend veel invloed heeft gehad op latere synthpop albums, maar dit laat maar weer eens zien dat je niet altijd naar de bron moet gaan, omdat die soms gewoon niet zo goed is.
The album reminds me a bit of Massive Attack. But worse.
Fuckin noise
You know the theme song from M*A*S*H, 'Suicide is Painless'? Whoever wrote that clearly never listened to this album.
Just very early arthouse style spoken work with electronic beats behind it. Felt depressing throughout most of it.
Let's NOT hear it for Frankie
How can anyone enjoy this? It is mostly static and noise, with no clear structure.
No...just no. 1/5
Mikið hrikalega rosalega var ég feginn þegar plötunni lauk. Mér var í alvörunni orðið illt í eyrunum. Öskur og leiðindi og sami taktur og viðbjóður. Ég mun aldrei vilja hlusta á þetta aftur.
Hard to listen to… so depressing. The X-ray notes said they were ‘confrontational performers’. And I can understand they must have been to be able to create this kind of sound without ending it all immediately afterward.
Somebody talking under their breath for 30 min. No thanks.
Well that was some weird ass shit. Technically speaking, it was like listening to the Doors but not really. Too electronic for me.
Hard no. Sounds like a guy in his parent’s basement messing around with a synthesizer. Plus the name.
Terrible, F. The only thing I liked about this album was when it ended.
Repetitive hard rock licks, combined with a few other instruments and vocals to provide variation. Not sure why this was included.
1 - This is what it sounds like when you let people high on heroin loose with recording equipment. In all seriousness though, I found it pretty horrible to listen too and I felt the emotions that they intended the audience to feel. The screaming was too much and a bit over the top.
Dafuq. Too weird and kooky for me. The amount I enjoy moaning and screaming in real life is the amount I enjoyed this album. Deliberately stressful and I'm not into it. It was hard not to vote it 1/5 before finishing listening, but in the spirit of being open minded, I finished the album before reviewing (but still gave it a one). If you could vote it 0, I would.
Francie Teardrop reminded me of the clip where Nasser Hussain put a chair down on David Gower's foot. Other than that I took nothing from this.
Nope. Nope. Nope.
I didn’t like this. What the hell was with the guy moaning his orgasm got an entire song. Doubt I’d revisit this as it really wasn’t for me.
Worst album of the list so far.
Unimaginative and repetitive
I liked the heavy handedness!
This was very disappointing. The same beat every time every song. Sounded fun at first the. just repepatitve
Odd 1/5
unlistenable
Hated it. Hated it. Hated it.
Not a fan of this one
#72. Well that certainly was uhhhh... something, now wasn't it? Like, you know, not something good, but something. 1/5
Awful. Would never listen to this again
This shit sucks donkey dick
Not for me
A rather unfortunate choice of a name, followed by quite annoying music.
Tämä oli kyllä kamala. Rääkymistä ja huminaa. En ymmärrä.
Weird little noises: the album Hot garbage 0/5
Known before: Standouts: Rating: -1.5
Known Before: No Standouts: No 1.0
A great way to be put on a list 1/5
not even worth listening to
I had to go back and forth debating whether I wanted to rank this album according to how groundbreaking it is (I usually give a star just for that even on albums I dislike), or according to how listenable it is. I went with the latter because I never want to listen to this album again. First one on this list I've given a 1 star rating.
This album was pretty bland, then got tremendously grating toward the end. I understand that music is a medium to tell a story, and that everyone has a story to tell, but some of the stories from this album are better left out of published music. The thought of a band exploiting the topic of suicide and employing amoral shock tactics for commercial gain is abhorrent. I see little to no value in this “music” ; one star.
This album was kindof boring. The backing track is the same 30 seconds on a loop. Also the song Girl was kind of disturbing, im not sure how anyone feels good listening to that. 1 star
Bom, a própria capa do álbum já dá spoiler da nota já... Músicas extremamente chatas. Não chega a dar raiva igual aquele Psychocandy lá, mas é só extremamente chato mesmo. Minto, a música 6 - Frankie Teardrop dá raiva sim... pra que esses berros cara..... se foder Nem tenho muito o que falar, não entendi a musicalidade delas, não entendi o propósito, o que que era pra ser, não entendi nada. Dava pra tranquilamente ter morrido sem ouvir isso.
Don't listen to this one, ever again.
This is what happens when white people are left to their own devices and try to come up with music
Nope. Sorry.
WOW that was garbage, mind numbingly boring. How on earth did someone put on a vinyl of this in the late 70s and think "This is what I'm going to spend my time listening to". 1/10, if it wasn't for Cheree sound ok for 30 seconds or so it would be a 0
Random noise and talking. Hated. 0/5
Started out better than I was expecting, but got progressively worse........."Girl" made me highly uncomfortable.
I didn't enjoy the album, didn't enjoy the style and especially didn't like the screaming near the end of the album.
Not a fan of this one.
I take a fat shit on this album every morning.
Not an ounce of talent went into this one
I guess this is on here because it influenced GOOD bands? I sure didn't like it. I skipped the last 2/3 of "Frankie Teardrop" because the singer decided it was a good idea to just scream into the mic for no good reason. Sorry to anybody out there listening with earbuds. I made it about halfway through the final track before just quitting. It wasn't worse than Frankie Teardrop, but it wasn't any better. Except there was no screaming. It's appropriate that the cover has one star on it. Because that's what I'm giving it. I'd give it 0 if I could.
It's definitely ahead of its time but those droning synths are torture to listen to.
I give this 1 star because it is technically music. But ungodly bad.
Didn't like it at all. 1/5 -S
So bad…
too weird/boring for me
Furchtbar hibbelig und trotzdem erstaunlich langweilig. Man sehnt sich nur nach dem Ende. Der schnelle Rhythmus und die Rasseln haben was von native American music (cree song etc, das ist alles tausend mal besser als suicide). Ab und zu mal ein nette Bass line. Aber das Album ist einfach Shit.
Neue Lebensregel: wenn du mir schon ins Ohr stöhnst, dann hab immerhin was spannendes zu sagen. Gänsehaut aber auf die negative Weise.
Spoken verse, strange mix, tons of delay and synth-organ. Not something I like.
Should have spent their sunglasses money on a fucking drum machine. How did this stuff get people to riot at live shows?
ugh so boring and the vocals suck and the basslines are so repetitive and everything is just so repetitive and butt
This is by far the worst thing I’ve ever heard. Captain Beefheart seems like The Beatles in comparison. Seriously. Go awful. I had cringe-induced goosebumps the entire time I listened. When he starts screaming in Johnny Teardrop I feared for my life. How anybody decided this is “art” is beyond me. There’s no musicality to this. It’s a Casio on loop with a shit tambourine sample. The guy talks about a man killing his family in Johnny Teardrop or just outright has an orgasm into the mic on Girl.
The orgasmic moaning in “Girl” made me even more uncomfortable than the droaning synth on every track. Ugh.
AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!! My poor ears!
Boriiinn´
This band caught me off guard not only with their name, but also with the music. Really haunting, depressing, scary at times. Can’t say I really dig it, it’s too much out there, and ahh maybe too much drug fuelled? Anyway, some might really love it. 2 out of 10
I feel like all of the accolades of this album are gaslighting me. It is beyond boring musically, and it's pretty stunning to think that any of the electronic sounds were ever considered innovative. Everything just feels basic as hell.
I was listening to this record via speakers at home, but decided to switch to headphones halfway through the second song because I didn't want to subject the other people in my house to this music. Turns out I was right to do that, because this is an awful album. Apparently it was recorded over four days, and I wish someone had recommended the band to take maybe four more years to mull over whether this was worth releasing or not. It sounds like someone repeatedly drilling into my skull, with an ocassional scream that really pisses me off, to be honest. I will be very happy to never think about this record ever again. To those who love this, more power to you guys! But this album SUCKS
Weird, enerverende
1/5 Best: Ghost Rider Worst: Frankie Teardrop
Not my kind of music
Iconic? Maybe. Good? Fuck no. This album sucked.
Hmm no
Ooo this reminded me that I was familiar with the lovely "Frankie Teardrop" - I hadn't heard that once since my wedding reception... This is what happened when you left Tommy the little delinquent punk at home for the weekend in the late 70s with nothing but Oreos and coke and his new cheap little Radio Shack gadgets. Seriously: as low an "effort" as I've ever heard - not just on the 1001 - ever. Straight up in the running for worst album ever released. 0/10 0 stars (i wish).
I was intrigued in the beginning but it all became repetitive noise soon after. And that moaning in "girl". Ew
Experimental. Una mierda bastante grande.
Zo kan ik ook muziek maken: de hele tijd het zelfde roffeltje herhalen en daar wat doorheen zingzeggen of kreunen. Op de achtergrond wat pingelen op je synthesizer en de plaat is weer klaar. Eerst denk je, het past wel aardig in het rijtje jaren zeventig-space age-platen, maar op een gegeven moment ben je het zat.
Deze band weet blijkbaar dondersgoed wat ze met deze muziek stimuleren ...
Vage intermezzonummers uit een plaat van The Velvet Underground met voornamelijk ruis. Dat vind ik normaal gesproken al irritant als dit soort stukjes 'muziek' tussen echte nummers door komen. Maar Suicide maakt er een heel album van. Wat een verschrikkelijke zaadmuziek is dit.
Barf
Nei, nei og atter nei
I've been trying to listen to each album 2x though when time permits. I would like to listen to this album negative 2x through. Is that possible?
This album was so boring. The same repetitive shaky-egg sound in the background with little else going on and "Girl" was one of the most uncomfortable songs I've had the displeasure of listening to.
You only need to listen to 20 seconds of a song at that gives you the sound for the entire song. Waste of time to listen to. It doesn't belong on this list at all.
Vocally this album is terrible, why was there moaning in this? The instrumentals were incredibly repetitive and they weren’t that great to begin with.
This shit sounds so stupid, it's hilarious. All the songs seem like they could lead up to something, but stay repetitive and fade away. In one song I think he's literally just jerking off into the mic. The next is a 10 minute song about a guy killing his family and himself then going to hell with accompanying sound effects. It was a riot.
No thanks
eu aprecio a experimentação do album, mas ela é construida em cima de repetição, isso torna o album torturante, é serio. eu gostei dos orgãos que eles usaram, aliviaram um pouco, mas ainda assim um album ruinzinho.
I liked the first two songs a little but then it just dropped from there, it’s unique but not great sadly a 1/5
Man, I just wrote what a contrast between Missy and Metallica, then we get these guys. Holy shit...... First song, I thought different but may be OK. Then every song got progressively worse and disturbing. By the time I got to Girl I was close to tapping out. Definitely should have tapped out. What in the hell was Frankie? Just brutal. I don't even know what to say about this album. Not for me. I let the genre play while typing. 2nd song played was Cindy by The Jesus and Mary chain, then Loose by the Stooges. I'm offended Spotify grouped these songs/groups with the album. Another 1 because you can't rate negative. Will not attempt to listen to anything by these guys. Feel a little emotionally disturbed for listening.
1 Wtf even was this? It’s good to know that I could make an album of absolute fucking nonsense and it could be considered an all time great. I was already annoyed and then there was a 9 minute song and then I was pissed. Fuck this.
1 I feel like I was violated listening to this thing. Being that it was released in 1977, you could argue that it was ahead of its time, but my takeaway was that there was clearly still a ways to go in electronic music. I mean, the keyboard on Ghost Rider was so harsh that I thought I was about to be impaled by the audio waves. Johnny was kind of funny to me at least because all I could think of was the opening to the Peanuts theme - kept waiting for Schroeder to jump in with the high part. Unfortunately, my mood quickly shifted when I became very, very uncomfortable right afterwards with Girl. And then don’t even get me started on Frankie Teardrop. It was clear about a minute in that the next nine were about to be very long and… and then… then the screaming started 0_0 One day I’m going to wake up with a cold sweat in the middle of the night thinking about this song. Supposedly this is supposed to be a take on punk, and I guess I can hear that in its rawness, but I feel like punk is supposed to stand for something, and I don’t think this stands for anything. Call it experimental if you want, it doesn’t make it listenable.
It has become apparent why the album is called suicide. This album is a waste of time. Pick a beat and put some weird echo like reverb on your microphone and just say random fucking words. Not sure if that is what synth pop is in general but man I never want to listen to that again...I award this album no stars and may God have mercy on Frankie Teardrop's soul
What did I just listen to?? When Girl was on I took my headphones off at least 5 times to make sure it wasn't playing out loud while I was in my office Would not recommend doing drugs and listening to this album
An unpleasant listening experience. This is the kind of music I would play to someone if I was torturing them. I guess some people could see this as art, and at least it's different. I couldn't tell that this was made in 1977, it could have just as easily been made today.
Repetitive boring melody, boring lyrics and then to make it slightly less boring: the dude screams a bit.
I feel like I clicked on the wrong album. What an awful time. An awful record.
I don’t get it. Sounded like amateur ramblings.
If I could rate this 0, I would. 1/5.
This is the worst album I’ve ever heard
No me gustó para nada, sonido repetitivo, gritos que me dieron ganas de sacarlo
This dude got a Casio keyboard for Christmas one year and made the same song over and over.
not my jam
not my cup of tea. at all
Deeply unsettling. Murdering your wife and baby coz life is tough?!?! And then "let's hear it for Frankie" nah.
Just no. Why dies it have to have this super annoying white noise on almost every Track?
wtf was this
Absolutely shit
This album is beautifully titled, as it encapsulates the fact that it makes me want to commit suicide
I mean I guess I can see how this would've been groundbreaking for the time, but I kind of really didn't like it. The instrumentals are fine but the vocals threw me off. Was losing my mind at "Girl" and "Frankie Teardrop", and not in a good way. No fave track.
Very very odd, not always in a good way. Not terrible, far from great, but really strange. Not for me thanks. Still miles better than Nico though!
First song, eh, not bad. Then the drum beat continued, then a man screamed at me, then I understood why this has so many 1 reviews
This record sounds like Lou Reed both literally and figuratively jerking off in a bathroom with a tape recorder and Casio keyboard.
I wanted to like this but I just couldn't. A boring, self indulgent pile of wank. Crappy repetitive beats and uninspired lyrics that sound like they being made up as they go along. Never again.
What a pile of shite
What is this edgy Elvis / Joy Division shit? 1/3 of this album is that 10mins teardrop track… Here’s Frankie by Sister Sledge: https://youtu.be/1Tl-c_puzbM
Best Song: Ghost Rider. The backing groove is kinda nice. Worst Songs: Girl. Mother of God who the fuck wants to listen to this horny, desperate mumbling? Also Frankie Teardrop, for being one of the least musical songs I've ever heard. Overall: What at first seemed like some marginally interesting groove tracks descended into absolute hell due to the vocals layered overtop. The absolutely non-musical screaming, blowing out the mic? Insane, paranoid "lyrics"? If you played this song to an enemy combatant it would count as a war crime. I read they declined to play this at Abu Ghraib, citing it as too cruel.
not my thing
Cute on a cerebral level, but does absolutely nothing for me in the enjoyment department. 1/5
J'ai cru au début que ça allait bien se passer mais c'est la descente dans les tréfonds de l'angoisse
*vomitif puissant, penser à ne pas boire la veille de l'écoute
I don't know what to say. This was more background noise than a nice album to listen to. Didn't feel that Electronic to me. Did I hate it, no. Did I like it, no.
Sorry to all the other albums I have given a 1, this is the newest low.
s h it