Reviews (page 7 of 8)
Definitivamente este disco no es para mí. 0/10
Sounds like it was made for a creepy circus by a creepy clown (I did not like it). Interesting sound though considering it was released in the 70s
At first I thought I liked this, but then I realised I hate it.
Wow this is easily one of the weirdest albums I’ve listened to and that is saying a lot. So much so I couldn’t even really enjoy it. Actually beyond that this was really just completely unlistenable. I can’t even imagine a life in which I listen to this album again. It was a one time experience and I’d love to keep it that way. I honestly probably just don’t understand it but also I don’t really want to put in any amount of effort to.
sucks really bad
When this came up, it seemed interesting - art rock, electronica etc. Within the first 20 seconds of this, I thought, "what the hell is this?". However, it could easily have just been a strange quirky intro...unfortunately after 14 songs, I was still thinking "what the hell is this?". Luckily, it's only 35 minutes long - it is rather bizarre in places, too bizarre for my liking unfortunately. Easy to see why this is the top 3 worst rated albums.
bof
What the fuck was that?
What the fuck was that? This is the 3rd time I have found the worst album on this list (so far). I suspect there will be something worse later though. There were a couple of flashes of music that accidentally made it on this album. If I go out back and stab a duck, will it sound like this album?
Just because you're unique, doesn't mean you're useful. I genuinely reckon they've thrown some of these obvious 1/5 albums in the mix just to spot the ostentatious & pompous wankers who rate this thing positively just to think they're smart or different. I cannot think of any other reason why you'd rate this positively.
The third lowest rated album on this site with only 45.3k monthly spotify listeners and it fucking shows. Grating from the first few seconds. If I have to give this props for anything I would say that there are a few tracks on here which work well enough as unnerving/anxiety inducing background audio (I will give them the benefit of the doubt and assume this was the goal for a lot of this). But with the purposefully out of tune singing and instrumentation this is bound to be as much of an acquired taste as motor oil. Not the worst album on this list by proxy of being more musically inclined than Throbbing Gristle. As for which side I preferred? Fucked if I know, I don’t want to put too much more thought into this album.
A Who-tier band. A 'what the fuck' album. Lizard lady sounded like it was sung by assorted Sesame Street characters, but in a frightening way. An odd track, didn’t fancy it. Weight Lifting Lulu & Hello Skinny- These were the best of the worst, fairly listenable, but nothing to write home about. Pink Floyd was chucking out some goofy and bizarre music like this in the 60s, but executed it better overall, and not in an end-to-end straight-jacket album fashion like this. In the year of our lord 2016. It's baffling that anyone felt the need to include this in the amendment to the 1001 albums. No Highlights, just happy it’s over. If I were an evil person with captives, I’d loudly play this album on repeat like they did with other music at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp
This is what my nervous "I had ten different cocktails at work drinks" hangovers feel like. I'm sure this album has inspired some good music but whatever, this is ass. Creepy fuckin spongebob night terror music. Highlights: the fact that this is only 33 minutes
Definitely not my style. The Avant garde thing doesn't click for me.
I guess even novelty comedy acts have space to be in the list. Does that means that I have to like it? No. 0.01/10
Practically unlistenable. At 35 minutes, still way too long.
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Fullkomligt katastrofalt och jag blir arg på alla mina livsbeslut som tagit mig till punkten där 35 minuter måste spenderas på den här kakafonin av trams-oljud.
What the hell is even that?
Hmmm. Well, it’s certainly an attempt to try different things. But for me it was mostly unlistenable.
Yuck.
Unique..
⭐️.5/5. Few songs with horns were OK, but the rest I found beyond strange/creepy and unlistenable. Not my vibe at all.
I could play any instrument badly and scream over it and call it avant garde. it certainly doesnt seem like it takes much musical talent. Overall: 1/5
Easy 1 star.
Wtf
NO Why does he sound like Pinocchio on Blue Rosebuds
I’m not finishing this. I’ve never liked an album less than this.
Eksperimenterende rock, men på den måde hvor det ikke lyder godt
unlistenable
This album sucked
oh no
shit
1 star I didn’t like it. I wasn’t in on the joke and I have no intention of trying to be in on it.
Uahhhhhh - torture
It's just too weird. Every song is eerie and unpleasant. This album, although short, was a real test of my endurance. I didn't find anything to like here.
Maybe avant-pop isn't for me... at least not this kind. While I'm positive that songs like Lizard Lady, Birthday Boy, and Hello Skinny made major impressions on Les Claypool, they don't hold me enough to warrant a revisit of this album in the future. I did save Birthday Boy on Spotify just in case I need to ruin somebody's big day.
I tried...
Absolutely did not need to hear this before I die
Coolt album.... ... Detta är "musik" man vill gilla för att kunna säga det till andra. Det finns ingen som sitter och lyssnar på detta själv, frivilligt. Men sätter på detta med andra. Eller säger till andra att man gillar the residents. Man kanske tvingar sig igenom nån lyssning för att det ska kännas som att man faktiskt gillar det. De som satt 4/5 i betyg är oseriösa. De bedömer inte musiken. De bedömer sig själva, "jag är lite ball/udda som diggar detta". Finns något "Primus" över detta, men sjukt mycket sämre. Primus är iaf lite "lattjobra", detta är "stängavdåligt". Fuck all the way off!
Den här skivan har redan stulit 35 min av mitt liv så jag tänker inte lägga en sekund på att förklara hur enastående usel den var.
yeah no
what. the. fuck. is this. I like weird, but this is not tasteful weird
1 - bad
dumb ass wacky stuff like this makes the list then lil b deserves a spot
Maybe I‘m too dumb to see the art in this madness.. but. Nope.
Hot garbage. No idea how this album made the list
I would say 1.5, it isn't for me. But 2 usually means it's an easy listen and isn't for me, but this was not an easy listen and I can't round up, so it'll just be a 1 star.
No thanks, too weird for me
# 482 : Duck Stab : 16/05/2025 What the hell is "American Art Rock"? Def not my cup of tea. This was terrible. An album which makes you reconsider whether there are as many as 1,001 albums you must listen to before you die.
Okay, so I think I've figured it out somewhat... You know in high school, how there's all these groups? There's jocks, stoners, cheerleaders, preppy dudes and girls. There's also the weirdos. They're the kids into math, av club, D&D, all sorts of things that would be considered nerdy. That weirdo group doesn't really want to listen to what everyone else does. They want something all their own, that they can talk to each other about without others understanding. Think of Monty Python. Or Devo. Or They Might Be Giants. I think that's what we have here with this album. I think this is made for the "weirdos", and them alone. Now, I actually was one of this group in school. I liked a lot of the weird stuff. This one's not for me, though. Even though I think I get it, I don't like it at all. So this one star isn't a condemnation, just reflective of me personally never wanting to listen to it again.
This is one of the weirdest things I've ever listened to. It's like if Mystery Science Theater was turned into music made by depressed theater kids doing too many drugs. I don't think I'm cool enough for this album. Parts were enjoyable, but it is unlikely that I'll ever listen to this again.
This is probably not meant to be an enjoyable listen, but man, this was worse than I expected. This deserves its current spot as the third lowest rated on this site.
A a side full of nursery rhymes and bizarre noises, a b side full of much the same with some fleeting moments of enjoyment but never enough to make you thankful you are listening to this album.
F*ck no - what complete garbage
Honestly, couldn't get past the first two songs...
Very strange "avant-garde pop". Unsettling music with "sing-talking" vocals
TERRIBLE!
TARIFF ALL MUSIC RECORDING EQUIPMENT
1.5/10 I’ve hardly given any low scores recently, I’m clearly getting more tolerant the more I hear. But I hated this viscerally. One of the worst albums I’ve ever heard. This is the stuff of a pretentious 14 year old with their first tapes recorder and keyboard, there was no need to inflict it on the world. Maybe the worst vocal performances I’ve ever heard. Gave it 1 point for the fact that there seemed to be some musical ability under there. Horrible.
Not for me 1/5
Ducking Stab me in the ears with a #2 pencil. can I give it half a star?
I can appreciate weird shit. But not this weird shit. Good for them making a long career out of this bizarre concept. I can't begin to understand how.
I found myself asking, “why?!” after listening to the first 3 songs. And I use songs loosely!
I really thought I could defend this album because it's rare to have art-rock but man this was just painful to listen to (even tough it's probably the point). Great soundtrack for my nightmares but apart from that, no.
Well, now I know why I was never into The Residents. Their costumes were cool, but their music... not so much.
I needed to hear this. I don't need to hear it again. Now I know there is "music" like this. I know this is not "music". Primus is much better.
Couldn't get through the whole thing. Incoherent noise.
Thats a big no from me. A little too chaotic for my taste
Not for me, felt like I was in a horror movie
Nope
This was bad, truly terrible music that made me question why I'm listening this album list, it shouldn't be on a top 10,000 list. I made a decision to try and find something positive to write about for all the albums, but then this happened and I'm at a loss for positive.
I get what they're doing here. But no
I hate experimental "music"
Hat man
Atrocious. I don’t know how somebody could wake up one day and think “this is what I want to record. The world needs to hear this.”
Niet zo lang geluisterd maar wat ik heb geluisterd vond ik niet zo mijn ding. Was er gewoon niet zo in de mood voor
What the fuck
Did not need to listen to this before dying. It's like any old fool can make an "album" and put it out. What I don't understand is why so many of these tracks have the dots of "favorite tracks" in Apple music.
Weirdest
this is not enjoyable as music i can see people getting something out
Not for me.
Heiligi Mutter und Vater Gottes, das nänn ich mal experimental! Oder nännts mer Lärm? Isch das no musig? Ich weiss es ned, und leid zu lied hanis au meh Asträngend gnännt. Ufjedefalls nänn ichs weder en 5 punkter, no en 4, 3 oder 2 punkter sondern radikall es irgendöppis vomene 1-puento. Mir werdet kei fründe!
R A N S D H O I M T Jeses marei. Die hend mi mit ihrem irrem 30sek random track uswal sehr verwirrt und doch zimli ufm falsche fuess verwütscht. D frag isch gids 1 punkt wege scheisse oder 2 pünkt wege schlecht und biz ifallsrich? Ahh chum Isch eifach schlecht. 1 buck duster & stab the resident glen
ja hallo? genau, da isch de noah hertzog… ah nei äxgüsi, da hend sie sich glaub verwählt ja danke, ihne au no en schöne abig und auf nimmerwiedersehen
Very avant-garde, feeling of unease throughout, heavy use of chromatic and dissonant notes. Not an easy listen but would set the vibe in a certain type of bar. BACH IS DEAD *goose noises*
Bleh
this is hot garbage. 1/5
I think this sucks.
dis i like!
What the hell was that? If you've ever been listening to Primus and you thought, this is too mainstream band bland. I need something alot weirder, then this is the album for you. I need an explanation for why this was such an important album. I am proud of myself for listening to the whole thing though. That was the musical equivalent of a snuff film. Still better than Robert Wyatt though. At least these guys are anonymous
Meh
I've never heared of them before. And there is no need for me to listen to them again.
This is ass. 1.
no thanks
Boring.
These guys sound like what would happen if you removed all the best parts of Primus, Frank Zappa, and maybe Kool Keith and just kept the weird junk. It's like they militantly reject harmony. And any time they have some cool element like the drum beat on the second track, or the base line on the third track, they ruin it with random annoying noise. On that note, I feel like this album would serve best in a hiphop producer's record collection, as a repository of random samples that nobody would ever track down to the original album. But it probably wouldn't be a good producer using them. Blue Rosebuds sounds like a witch's spell, told with annoying cackle and everything. Albums like this are why I'm starting to lag behind on my listening list on this generator--I've had too many lately. The song "Bach is Dead" is funny because the poor guy's probably rolling over in his grave listening to this. The last song isn't entirely unpleasant, which means it's a highlight here.
Horrible.
What did I just listen to and why didn't I stop? 1 star and truly deserves less than that if possible. Only three reasons for this album to on this list, 1. The author of this list was a member of the band, 2. The author of this list had a family member in the band, 3. The author needed song 1,001 and choose this one for only a reason they know. SMH.
Every other album I've given a 1 is now retroactively a 3 by comparison to this shit I know now this list is a complete joke, a perfect execution in trolling. There is no universe where this album or this band should be recognized for anything, except for producing a plethora of garbage. I regret ever starting this list and I no longer want to finish it.
Terrible
I wasn't a huge fan of this. I guess I'm not artsy enough for Avante Garde.
Not for me at all
I’ve gone deaf.
Fuckin weird. WTF. Noise adjacent. Kinda like Zappa but not as good. Glad that's over with. Will need a thousand listens to understand what that was all about.
The Residents - Duck Stab/Buster & Glen This is the most WTF album I have ever heard ever in my life. This is the musical equivalent of "abstract art". I thought I was into experimental music and already knew how it sounded like, until I listened to this... The first song is already insane to listen and the music video is even more so to watch, and that's just the tamest one compared to the rest of this album. It lasts for 35 minutes, but that sounded like an eternity, if there's an album to represent how hell sounds like, it would be this one. Some of the weirdest music I have heard in a long time, it sounds really unique, but also unlistenable. They somehow were able to make a birthday song sound worse than it already was originally. This album cover really DOES depict how this album sounds like for sure. Overall, this is an interesting album... No way I'm listening to this again, or I'll get nightmares from it LMAO 1.- Constantinople = 5/10 2.- Sinister Exaggerator = 3/10 3.- The Booker Tease = 6/10 4.- Blue Rosebuds = 4/10 5.- Laughing Song = 6/10 6.- Bach Is dead = 2/10 7.- Elvis And His Boss = 4/10 8.- Lizard Lady = 5/10 9.- Semolina = 3/10 10.- Birthday Boy = 1/10 11.- Weight Lifting Lulu = 4/10 12.- Krafty Cheese = 2/10 13.- Hello Skinny = 3/10 14.- The Electrocutioner = 5/10 FINAL SCORE: 3.8/10
Very unenjoyable. I can see how it probably influenced music I like, but it was painful to get through.
This must be what madness sounds like.
ohhhhhhhhhh. another of the lowest rated. and fuck it. i didn't take any lsd but it's just a trip gone bad... it's pure terror with all that distorted and out of tune singing with unsettling noises. literal horror game soundtrack. that bunch of germans screaming and banging on metal is even better. what's their band name again, Ein-stür-zen-de Neu-bau-ten? (Well i am just pretending. i know EN since blixa collabrated with nick cave. but never listened to anything.) 1/5
Utter garbage. I’m up for a bit of avant-garde as much (if not a little bit more) than the next man, but 💩 needs to be called 💩. An unpleasant, tuneless assault on the ears.
Just a very bizarre album, and not at all something I'd expect to find in this list. I like some of the experimental aspects of it, but the weird voices and sounds take things too far for it to be enjoyable. Several songs have annoying high pitched vocals and what sounds like a kazoo, one has people chanting with plugged, nasally noses, and another includes a decent sax piece that starts to screech at the end. Most of the songs sound distorted or creepy enough to belong in a horror playlist
Literal trash
Let me make it clear: torture is not entertainment. That said, "Duck Stab/Buster & Glen" is one of the worst albums I've ever heard in my 30 years of life. My first reaction to the album was: "What the fuck am I listening to?", that's how scared I was when I started listening to it. It was so bad that I couldn't even finish listening to the album (although I still managed to listen to half of "it"). Listening to this album is a torture that I don't intend to ever go through again in my life.
WTF is this??? 1/5
If its shite, is it art?
Honestly this album didn’t do it for me. I appreciate the weirdness, but I would never choose to listen to this.
I’d give it zero stars if I could
Did not finish. Don’t make sounds like that
point2.
Imagine you have just graduated art school, all full of piss and vinegar, and you are ready to create. You make this album, then realize none of you can actually play music and perhaps some of you have never even heard music before. Just terrible noise. Worst album so far.
i wish many things, but mostly that this album was never made
Any “music” that often comes with a disclaimer that you need to be on drugs to enjoy it should be wiped from the earth. This is utter garbage. The only thing remotely redeeming about it is the Primus cover of Sinister Exaggerator. Even that I would gladly do without for this album to never have existed. I would give it fewer stars if I could.
gonna be so real, i didnt listen to this album but i really love ducks and i dont like ducks being stabbed (i heard like 30 seconds and didnt like it much either)
Wow. I really do like "weird" music. But there is enjoyable weird music, and weird music that is trying to hard to be weird. This is trying too hard. 1 star.
Boring and unremarkable. It’s as if they all got drunk and someone pulled out a bad karaoke machine. Truly awful.
Well, it’s not forgettable, but of course neither is salmonella.
Your time here on Earth is too precious, too fleeting, too goddamn valuable, to be wasting even 35 minutes on this pretentious dog shit.
Great name. Great cover. Unlistenable.
What if instead of being amazing, Ween was the worst band ever? This album bravely answers that question. This might genuinely be the worst thing I have ever heard.
The wrong kind of weird.
I dont even know what to say about this. Absolutely unhinged. Maybe it does deserve a spot on the list because of how insane it is
Any variation of the song Constantinople is always a disappointing addition to an album but this particular cover of the song was viscerally obnoxious. Starting the album off with it is a bold choice and it is one that does not pay off. The songs somehow get worse as it goes on. I don't know what else to say besides this thing is fucking terrible. Why it's on this list is beyond me but I'll bet you good money that they're British. This supposition is based on a well-trodden trail of missteps on this list that always seem to have that in common. I might be wrong about that but it's sort of impressive how bad this album is. I enjoy a lot of experimental music but not this I fucking hated this. I saw the song title "Birthday Boy" and thought that if it turns out to be any sort of Happy Birthday song I'm turning the album off. I was right so I did. Fuck you list for even knowing about this. Every fucking physical version of this album in any form should be burned and buried and all digital storage of it should be wiped by a big magnet. Only listen to this if you truly hate yourself and do not value your time. There's somehow an extended version of this album on Spotify. Ick! Get it off of everything everywhere I hate it
What the fuck are you doing to me Robert?
More like ear stab
I'm all for people being experimental, but not like this
Dra åt skogen
Quando se percebe rapidamente que a pretensão é um poço de chatura.
Gear: Abyss DIANA MR Artwork: 👹🔪🦆 Produktion: 🧏♂️📏💩 Musik: 🎭🧷💩 Wertung: 🦆/5
Awesome thanks
Cheeks 1.5
So bad
I'm all for experimenting, and with enough 1970s psychedelics on board this might've made sense. Somewhat less so n my midweek morning commute to work though
Is it art or is it just annoying? Ahhh? But mmm? Is?
Oh my god. Art or idiocy. The music does not internet my listening experience.
Abstract junk. Why do we put our selves through this
I've never disliked an album so quickly. This shit fuckin sucks, I stopped on the 3rd track. You could Cold Chisel, Men at work and Midnight Oil in place of this shit. Not happy, Jan!
Worse than Beefheart, was like looney tunes on brown acid
Who the fuck wrote this book. I’m gonna hit them over the head with it. It being my COCK ! ! !
Horrible! How did this album make the cut!
Unsettling and unpleasant
This is maybe the perfect album for people who KINDA like regular music but wished that it gave them more anxiety. I would listen to this album again anytime I’m trying to feel like I’m trapped in a horror film, or to induce a panic attack.
I did not finish this album. Songs seemed like they should be in a horror movie. I just didn’t get it
Not getting it…seems like needs multimedia to be enjoyable. Not the point of being able to listen to an album and feel it.
The fuck was that. 3rd track is the best. It's instrumental.
I tried. But this was really trying.
Två jävla timmar av ungdomar i en källarstudio som bara gör oljud
No amount of fame or influence or anything could make me want to listen to this again. The first song right off the bat really showed me what I would be listening to and I was just so ready to be done with it. I really just wow.
Art rock is often embarrassing, this is one of those times. Very rare it actually works (Disco Valente by Mr Bungle is the only time is actually springs to mind). Very happy to never listen to this again.
But why?
Noteworthy songs - 808080808 Magical Dream - Kinda catchy synth, but the rest is bland. Ancodia - Good background noise. Cobra Bora - Actually kind of cool, reminds me of Bomberman Hero. Pacific 202 - N64 vibes, but melody isn't great. Donkey Doctor - Nothing too special, weird ending. 808080808 - Really cool beginning. A little slow in the middle but stays interesting enough. Sunrise - Nothing remarkable. The Fat Shadow - Eerie. Very short.
No. Just no. I fucking hate the creators of this list. My 5 months old cousin can compile a better list. This album is just noise. Incomprehensible noise can be good if done good. This is bad. Very bad.
Um... yeah. (3.4) ★½
2 (scale is different for the normal one)
No ducks were harmed (I think) but my ears certainly were. This was actively atrocious. Most of the songs were annoying, pitch-shifted limericks or vocal tics given wonky synth treatment and sounded like 1930s Merry Melodies from Hell. At a push Blue Rosebuds was slightly weird, soft and dreamlike in a Doors End Of The Night/Eraserhead kinda way at least for the first minute so until the high-pitched vocals came in again and ruined it. Lizard Lady had kinda fun lyrics and story although I didn’t like any of the vocal delivery and second half again amped up the terribleness. Cool album cover.
This started off as quite interesting but rapidly (after one song) became very wearing. Monotonous AND quirky is some feat, I guess, but this seems quirky for the sake of it, in a 'look-at-me' kind of way. I am not sure what The Residents bring to the party, but I am sure it's not a party I would spend very long at.
WEIRD to a new level. Almnost unlistenable. Especially at almost two hours long. An interesting timne capsule, but I wouldn't go anywhere near this again.
Awful
This is frustrating because I really love the idea and what they stand for, I just hate the actual product. There is weird challenging stuff out there that still sounds good. This just doesn’t. I don’t like listening to this at all
I've listened to over 900 albums so far and this one is the first one to completely halt my progress. I've listened to some stuff I've really hated but I could at least get through it. I found this album so unpleasant and distracting I couldn't listen to more than a song or two at a time. It squatted in my way for days, a sonic Jabba the Hutt if you will, blocking my forward progress. In sum, I did not enjoy it.
Mad collection of noises - mildly interesting to start with, infuriating by the time it's done
Fucking noise. How this is in the 1001 is beyond me
I tried REALLY hard to appreciate this album....I never got there. It amped my anxiety and just wasnt a fun listening experience!
I realize I have zero interest in experimental rock...
This one takes the title of Worst Album I’ve Ever Listened To.
How did they even come up with this? Like, seriously, has anyone ever managed to listen to the whole album? I'd not even say that it is bad, it's just reaaaaaally weird.. It's also fun how they made 2 or 3 versions of most songs: keep trying, maybe the 4th one will be the good one
Super experimental and surprising. Good for them. I managed to fit 2 hours album in 30 minutes at the rythm of "next please" button clicks. Would give it a zero if it was possible.
This is horseshit. Making bad music and calling it art isn't clever or profound.
I really don’t understand why someone would make this There’s a difference between being experimental/ challenging the boundaries of music and making noise with whatever you can find in your kitchen I was relieved when it finally ended (didn’t bother with the lives/remixes)
This is a challenging album. It's like They Might Be Giants but crazier and more dissonant. Some songs have Tom Waits-like vocals and others are circus'y. It's wild to read this from the wikipedia article: "Some noted that the Residents were approaching commercial elements with this EP" - I wonder how out there they were with prior albums. Along the way there were some songs that almost sounded OK, like Krafty Cheese. But the album as a whole really tested my patience, especially tracks like "Ds/Bag Suite".
This was interesting, but not in a good way, felt like it was a joke gone wrong
Yuck.
#228. I listened to the whole thing (disclosure: when I get where the music is going I absolutely allow myself to skip and quit as I see fit) and I was rather captivated. And then I did something else, while pondering about what to do with this album. 1, 2, a weird 5 even? Read a bit about the band. Thought about Pere Ubu (4★), the recent Liars (5★) and Cave's Birthday Party (3★). And put it on again. Man. Record scratch sound effect. It's really not where the above bands are. There's a line behind which whacky weird "avant-garde" becomes a mere vapid, unfunny prank and The Residents strutted right past it. It's often sonically interesting but that doesn't help it. My opinion here may be influenced by the 'OoOoh, much swastikas very art1!' of them liking Rock'n'Roll to Nazism (the fuck?) on their 1976 album but bottom line: this is the musical equivalent of some online fucko asking "Triggered? 🤣". I hope to never hear this again.
I have no idea wtf I just listened to. Weird shit and not in a good way.
I don’t know what to say…
1. conztantinople - 0 2. zinizter - 0 3. booker - 1 4. rozebudz - 1 5. laughing - 0 6. dead - 0 7. elviz - 0 8. lizard - 0 9. zemolina - 0 10. birthday - 0 11. lulu - 0 12. cheeze - 0 13. zkinny - 0 14. electrutioner - 0 15. bardot - 0 16. zaz - 1 17. ouu - 0 18. jonny - 1 19. unlizted - 0 20. zanta - 0
Normally I enjoy and value experimental music, but this one is just noise. I can't give it other score than 1/5. I didn't pick up anything during listeining and I don't really know how it went on this list.
"You're just too stupid to get it, it's supposed to sound awful, that's what makes it good." Yeah...pass
So, so bad
Sounds like it was created in a college experimental music class.
The album wiki describes this as art rock. Don't know about that, but whatever that is, I do agree that it should be buried deep under one.
Boo. Hiss
Literal garbage
This is just disturbing. At times it feels like it could be building to something good but it always gets pulled back to just sounding gross. Listening to this album feels like watching movies like The Dark Crystal or The Neverending Story as a kid. Your just creeped out and want it to end immediately.
I like music that doesn’t take itself too seriously but what the actual duck was that!?
Ridiculous. How did they ever get an album made.
I can’t rate this low enough. Unlistenable and unbearable.
Bullshit
Absolute mashed potato. I can’t believe I sat through 2 hours of this nonsense. I felt like gouging my own eyes out with a teaspoon during the Birthday Boy song, and the journey continued even further downhill from then on. There is no god.
Well, that's a weird one.
35 minutes of my life I will never get back
Annoying as fuck. Also: oH iM sO wEiRd bEcAuSe I liKE tHe rEsIdeNTs!🤡
gross, no.
truly unpleasant listening experience, yuck
- Ok - hab nicht alles gehört. - Kann mich bei allem Spott dagegen wären, dass ich zwischendurch wirklich gut unterhalten war. Vielleicht aber aus den falschen Gründen. Aber wer entscheidet schon, was falsch und richtig ist. 1,5/5
- Als ich die Platte geöffnet habe, schwante mir schon nichts Gutes, fast 2h, lange Tracks, weirdes Cover - es war wirklich anstrengend und ab den Live Tracks habe ich erst nicht mehr die Kopfhörer aufgehabt und dann irgendwann beim 13 Minuten Song abgebrochen -0,5/5
genuinely could not listen to this. why the fuck is it 2 hours long .5/5
Strange experimental rock along the lines of Tom Waits. Not my thing.
This was... Interesting... And Unnerving
Too strange and artsy.
God awful
I'm sorry but no. Luke tells me these are very popular and it's all avante garde and all that but NO THANKS. I feel cynical that noone actually likes this they just pretend to see cultured and arty. These made me angry this album and worsened my PMS symptoms
There was NOTHING in that to enjoy, just some blokes fleecing a load of arty people and laughing at them when they say it's good.
Just by listening to this I can tell that The Residents are all pretentious douchebags who would laugh at you for not “understanding art” when you, rightly, tell them that their album is complete garbage.
Generally speaking I don't like any musical style that includes "avant garde" or "experimental" in its description, and this "experimental rock" album is no exception.
Experimental albums like this need more context. Without any this is just noise.
I guess you like it our you don't... I don't
CIA Torture Music - I wish I could rate it less
:(
Really? It seems like a conceptual album made by a child. Full of annoying and repeating sounds that makes you go craaaaazy. Now I have to pay a visit to a shrink.
Trash, with a side of garbage.
What the actual fuck?
1/5
Atonal, experimental, semi avant garde 'music'. Awful.
Nope. I look at the albums that are the lowest rated and want to be very open minded about these. I listened a few times and this album is just not good. The Residents are not even English, which came as a shock to me since that's an easy way to get in this book. This is avant garde music but it is not like Frank Zappa or anything of the like. It's just not enjoyable.
This might be the worst album on the list and the worst I've ever heard.
It’s an experience, but one I’d care to repeat.
I respect how weird it is but not enough to make this good
These guys are terrible. Nothing resembling a song until Weight Lifting Lulu that sounds a little like if Sonic Youth did a surf song. Otherwise, just awful. These guys make 30 seconds seem like an eternity. I never need to hear any of these songs ever again. The only enjoyment I got out of this was that they made a few noises that confused my dog.
wtf is the piece of shit...
pure dog water, this was probably the worst album ive ever heard, the vocals were awful, the lyrics were disgusting, the melodies were boring or didn’t work. it was as if they tried to make an album this bad because it seems hard to make an album this bad, if give this a 0/10 if i could, what possessed the creator of this list to put this on here.
This may be the worst album I have ever listened to. This was terrible. I get that it is “experimental” but I think they need to keep experimenting because this was truly awful.
This album sounds like a tween attempting to be edgy. I really dislike the sound and production and any attempt at lyrics should’ve been taken out of the final cut.
Was soll man denn davon halten? Experimentell, einmal hören reicht!
Like They Might Be Giants but with no talent and nothing to say. I'm mad about losing this hour of my life.
Constantinople is just bizarre, but in a good way. The rest of the album is just as strange, but it is not something I would listen on a regular basis
This album has balls. I know because it showed me it's balls and I didn't want to see them.
No
I think this is close to one of the worst things I've ever inflicted upon my unsuspecting ears, it's noisey, completely random trash and I hated it so much
More special than good
This is unlistenable.
Absolute drivel. Why the fuck is this included???
Le doy una estrella porque no le puedo dar menos. Una broma de disco
I don't need this in my life.
OMG😱
They are taking way too many drugs.
Up there with the very very worst we’ve had.
It amused me a lot in places and is totally bonkers, and I didn't actually hate it but come on... it shouldn't be given the light of day as it's a load of random shite
I won't judge anyone who enjoys this; I like a lot of weird music too. But if you think this album is anything more than a guilty pleasure, you're as deranged as the people who created it.
Oh come on now. Why on earth did this album make this list? This is terrible. This is probably the second worst album I've reviewed thus far. Just... skip this one if it comes up on your list y'all. It's not worth it. There are just no redeeming qualities found here.
ho paura duri troppo poco più di 30 minuti, troppissimo.
I'll definitely remember The Residents! They're the ones where you're pretty sure the whole thing is a joke. What is going on? Has my brain broken? Have their brains broken? Something here is broken.
Favorite Track: Blue Rosebuds
just not enjoyable in the slightest
Hay una canción sobre Constantinopla y no está en este disco.
Not even worth a listen
Again, not smart enough to get this
Not for me got half way through
No, no, no - that's not mine. What kind of music is it? I like psychodelic, rock, progressive and many other styles - this sounds like "early industrials". Sorry, only one star from me for this "noise"
Det var sjovt. Men nok ikke på måder The Resistents havde tiltænkt det
Bad! But there was something almost charming about it about halfway through so this gets my first ever High 1.
No idea what this bullshit was. Couldn’t finish it
Seriously? This sucks. Deserves 0 stars.
Could not get through this. My God.
If I could give it lower than one star, I would.
This album was so trash
Very much not my thing. 1/5
A little bit of a creepy vibe. Idk about this. (Fuck this is almost 2 hours long? Might be one of the few albums I haven't listened to in full...)
Dreadful
Odd
Wow. I just. No words. What? Why? Seriously beginning to wonder if this list is a prank.
Good God, that was terrible.
These people were high when they recorded this album. This is barely music.
What the hell was that?
I can tick it off but I now need to move on and forget about it.
Honestly - what was that?
what is this album? calling this experimental rock is generous, because the residents created such tuneless, grating garbage that might as well have been a bunch of toddlers banging instruments together. absolute nonsense that i don't understand why this album is here. with all of that out of the way, let me say that for some unknown reason, the residents were purposeful in creating this album. the distortion, the out-of-tune violins, the terrible laughter together created such an uneasy and unpleasant feeling. i couldn't help but be reminded of the old nintendo game, maniac mansion. real ones will know what i'm talking about. still, not enough to raise it from the 1 it deserves.
Unhinged and nightmare-ish -- and not in a good way. Don't get me wrong, I can normally go for these qualities in music, but I need the music to actually be, you know, good. The Residents genuinely seem to go out of their way to make this album as unpleasant and uncomfortable as possible. In any case, I realize they didn't intend to be taken seriously, but when "unpleasant" is your goal AND you are able to achieve it with flying colors, you're not going to get a very positive review from someone who is listening for pleasure. I can appreciate this as art, but I just don't appreciate it as music.
может мне расскажут, почему этот альбом важен, но пока 1, сорри
O album me soa experimental. Algumas músicas me deixam triste ou com outros sentimentos ruins, infelizmente não curti muito.
This is dogshit. Why in the world does anyone need to listen to this crap before they die? If I could rate a zero I would.
Just noise. Sounded like kids dicking about.
I listened, sorta. If these guys hadn’t been in disguise, they would’ve disbanded long ago, exposed as the whack musicians that they truly are. But wow, anonymous eyeball masks make this art? Something my brother would’ve listened to in the late 70’s, and he probably did. He was the first person I knew to have a cd player, payed about $900 bucks for it. And his name was Ralph. And he was fucking weird. Hmmmm. Maybe…
Ah you know what? Sometimes , I just want to listen to some actual music, that I actually like. Fuck you 1001 albums and fuck you The Residents, I can’t be arses with this bullshit today.
I can appreciate the experimentation, but the product is simply something that I don’t want to hear.
As we often see on here, the line between genius and insane can be thin. I feel like I am pretty open to weird music, but this one was too much for me. This is a late '70s American art rock album. It's really weird, no way around that really. There's very little structure, lots of weird drones and whatnot (which is actually one thing I do like on here), odd lyrics. It's a lot. The Spotify version is almost 2 hours long, and I cannot imagine listening to that much of this. The original release was only 34 minutes though (which is what I listened to), and that was plenty. They tried something, someone clearly likes it so that's good. Favorite song: Constantinople Other: Hello Skinny 4/15/24
1.5 WHAT I ENJOYED: the kind of fun/ominous instrumentation on the quieter pieces like Hello Skinny, the fairly short track length. The idea that if someone finds this appealing, I can definitely make music, too. GRIPES: really awful, crunchy & strident guitar sounds; pervasive sense of doom/glowering vocals throughout. Zero sense of who might actually put this on and enjoy it without something to prove in the Year of Our Lord Twenty Twenty Four. RECCOMMENDED IF YOU LIKE: annoying your neighbors, triggering tinnitus, Halloween music. #492 revealed / #524 rated
I can’t believe there are two songs referencing Constantinople. I like the other one better. This album really isn’t for me, with the exception of Bach is Dead.
Stupid
Not sure how this garbage ended up on this site.
Not good
This is the closest I have come to a musical interpretation of a sore tooth. It is awful and painful and like being stabbed by a duck, but you keep wanting to listen to it the same way you jab a sore tooth with your tongue
You have to be fucking with me. This album was such complete shit. What the fuck man. Literally what the goddamn fuck. If I could give 0, hell if I could give negative stars I would.
……..sometimes taking fuck loads of drugs and picking up a musical instrument just isn’t a good idea
Ehm immediately no aso iwie got mer das erschte lied scho mad anxiety und ich cha nedmal erchläre wieso?? Aso so mini ganzi brust zieht sich zemme und ich chas ned ganz chöne lose. Ich zwinge mich trotzdem mal wiiter z lose will ich ned album based on 1 song cha judge. Fuck this ganz ehrlich nach 2 lieder gibi scho uf und es isch mer recht egal hani nume 2 lieder gloset ich gib mer das npm ich ha bessers verdient
aaaaah das isch weeeirde shit ahaaa. ok isch funny? d songs nocjem erdte sind chli sehr weird?? blue rosebud au afoch gestöhne? finds au wenns will weird sii chli ass? bach is dead. indeed er isch. richtig. er isch so dead. es speichered irgendwie nöd was ich schrib aber ich schrib au immer s gliche. s isch afoch weirdo shit. hello skinny singeds afoch hello dolly? electrocutuioner isch irgendwenn afoch synth lärm. wäääääh
constantinople funny aber nervig wird das es album wo allgemein so chan zemmegfasst werde? oke ich bruch schomal e pause ui schochli sehr ahstrengend booker tease tönt jz endlich echli "normal" hahaha nevermind he es isch funny aber brutal müehsam ja sie wennd eifach nerve ich respektiers
Terrible protopunk.
I don't know what I just listened to.
Absolutely not. It’s like it’s trying to be 3 different genres in the worst way possible. Who tf made this list??
Holy fuck that sucked. 35 minutes of godamn noise. Ewww