Reviews (page 7 of 8)
This is just din
Not for me
Even by my relatively low standards for punk outside of the Ramones, I don't love this. The lyrics having only a tangential relationship to the beat is a little too dissonant for me. Hardcore punk is just not a genre I can appreciate. Our Way is the best song on the album. If they said this list was 1,001 Albums to Listen to So You Can Be a Snobby Music Asshole it would be more fitting. Just because this was the first hardcore punk album, doesn't mean it's the best. A 9+ minute punk song is not necessary. It's basically antipunk. I will never understand what compels bands to make the last song on their album an outrageous length. It's not often that I'm counting the minutes for a 38 minute album to end...but here we are. Shut Down (Annihilation Man), had it been under 6 minutes, would have been the best song on the album. Breaking it into three or four standard punk length songs would have been a massive improvement.
Horrific. I hated it within seconds.
No.
The voice is very annoying, stopped listening at song 3.
Yeah no.
Good album cover, lousy album
Not for me. Just not a gente I particularly enjoy.
Not sure about this album. I thought I'd be open minded and give a good listen but just don't like punk.
Couldn't finish, sounded like if Raving Rabbids made an album but worse
This is absolute horseshit
This was really just noise. Not enjoyable
No thank you
shit punk rock
Wyld Stalyns from Bill and Ted were better than this.
A good example why American punk sucks compared to British.
I saw the band name and immediately clocked it as punk and was not looking forward to it. I was not wrong; did not enjoy, the growly "singing" was so trash.
A truly irritating album. Chaotic, which to me means produced and played by chaotic people. I'd never even heard of the band "The Germs" before; how influential could this garbage have been? For me, it's a caustic American product, which isn't to say Iggy Pop isn't a great artist. The album "GI" is definitely going in the trash heap of music history for me.
Bad
Lots of yelling.
Ok
DNF - I don’t require a US version of Sex Pistols I just don’t im sorry I would rather an AU version (The Chats) which is, categorically, the best punk band ever
I really enjoyed this... Punked ya I very much did not enjoy
Teenagers in a garage.
I considered being merciful with a 2 since the tracks were going by quickly. Then, the 9:40 closing track played.
una genuina poronga.
This is actively unpleasant.
Mi primer uno
No me gustó nada este álbum. Apenas escuché la primera canción me dieron ganas de sacarlo pero dije bueno le doy una oportunidad, pero realmente no pude terminarlo creo que llegue más o menos a la mitad y lo tuve que sacar porque no me gustó para nada. Sentía que estaba escuchando ruido de fondo no música.
This is *exactly* what I feared all of the punk albums in this collection would sound like, so it's a credit to this project that this is the only truly painful and unlistenable album (for me)--at least so far, as there's still a couple hundred left to prove me wrong. It's funny that this was apparently as clear/coherent as their fans would get, as it's just a muddy album to me; according to the Wikipedia entry, "the album's clarity [thanks to recording engineer Pat Burnett and producer Joan Jett] redefined the Germs for California audiences, who had only seen the band thrash around onstage while an intoxicated [Darby] Crash avoided singing into the mic as much as possible." For me, "Land of treason" is probably the best example of how bad this album is, and Crash is still largely incoherent despite the "clarity"; on the other hand, "Lexicon devil" seems to be vaguely familiar, but they could have just been riffing off of someone else, I guess, and just downright weird to get a 9+ minute punk track at the end. Sad that leadman Darby Crash died of an apparently intentional overdose not long after the album was released, and weird that guitarist Pat Smear went on after this to join another suicide-plagued band (Nirvana). Regardless, I see no redeeming value to this album aside from perhaps its claim as the "first" full-length hardcore punk album.
Didn’t enjoy the album on the most part and couldn’t finish it. I enjoyed the instrumentals but just could not get past the dreadful vocals. 3/10
Music expresses the range of human emotions. Sometimes the emotion is screaming.
01) What We Do Is Secret - 5,0 02) Communist Eyes - 4,5 03) Land of Treason - 5,0 04) Richie Dagger's Crime - 5,0 05) Strange Notes - 5,0 06) American Leather - 4,5 07) Lexicon Devil - 5,0 08) Manimal - 5,0 09) Our Way - 5,0 10) We Must Bleed - 4,5 11) Media Blitz - 5,0 12) The Other Newest One - 5,0 13) Let's Pretend - 5,0 14) Dragon Lady - 4,5 15) The Slave - 4,5 16) Shut Down - 4,0 TOTAL: 4,78 (48/100) Current ranking: 831/873
Not for me at all. Brutal listen. 2.1/10
America's answer to the Sex Pistols? Oh yeh, also SHIT
Not for me
I really dig the cover. That’s a 5 out of 5 for me. Simple, eye catching, appealing. The music behind it is that kind of East Village dive bar bathroom, scuzzy-filthy, headache-inducing punk that just doesn’t do it for me. I can see why people would have indulged this scene back in the day, but in our time, I see absolutely no reason to subject yourself to this.
Hard Punk, 1979 -> 1
not my taste
Whatever.
Heyrðu, langt síðan að ég henti í ás. Það skásta við þetta er líklega að hávaðinn heima í stofu er væntanlega minni en að við að hafa verið á tónleikum með þeim.
Like most punk, this may have been significant for its time, but is not worth listening to now.
GI Germs was a fictional character created by Len Houmous in a Vietnam War sitcom he wrote in 1985. 1.0 7/16 Lexicon Devil
1.5
I hate giving 1's, but what's a MF supposed to do?
Nah
Nope.
No thank yew xx
👎🏻
Wow I hate this genre
Heavy metal is certainly not on my side
These guys suck donkey dick. I’m reading a punk book where one of the main LA guys says that everyone knew the Germs sucked, but their shows were the real draw. So why is this a required album? My tirade against the constant awful music coming out of LA continues. New York and UK punk are the peak, then the rest of Europe and Midwest US, and then below all of that resides the LA scene. I thought reading more about them would give me a new angle to appreciate, but honestly the opposite. All of the Dangerhouse guys sound like complete assholes. They never understood the good elements of punk and just took the shit. Rating: 1.3
Shite.
Noisy and annoying
5 seconds in. Nope
A lot of it is unintelligible noise. At least each track is short. Best song: The Other Newest One
💩💩💩
The Germs made me feel miserable but I was able to quickly recover by not listening to them any longer after the first few songs.
Why is your main goal to piss me off? What is this shit. I mean I'll listen to it but I am NOT happy. This is actual dog shit. Nothing about this is good. I am way fucking over it. They need to wrap up their career. Experimentation is not a good look on them and they can go ahead and put the mic down. Fuck this and fuck you too tbh.
What language was this in
I did not have to listen to this before I die lol
1/5
38 minutes & 15 tracks of redundant noise. Obviously I’m not a fan.
Nervig
It's just noise innit Favourite track: We All Bleed
I’m sorry I feel like I could have died without listening to this album. It honestly just sounded like a bunch of noise and the lead singer’s voice sounded truly awful. This was not an enjoyable listen to me and I will not be seeking this album out again. Usually I like punk music but this album was not my cup of tea.
DNF
Can’t say much about this one, probably the least imaginative so called proto punk band that was foisted on an unsuspecting music world
There's a place for this kind of "music". And that place is the dustbin.
Further proof that punk sucks? I'm just asking the questions here, man.
just nottttt my vibe at all. couldn’t listen. couldn’t finish
Jeez - what a lot of old crap.
No
Es como si el demonio de tasmania te estuviera gritando en el oído. No se que tan icónico son estos grupos que sigo escuchando o como revolucionaron un género. (Si es que lo lograron para empezar.) Siento que una persona que elige los álbums quiere sentirse especial al elegir la cagada mas grande que se puede encontrar. https://youtu.be/81zVbLrVSkg?si=tGj9tFgFAw9K9t6j
That was awful. It's just noise, and not even close to being listenable let alone pleasant. Even though some of the tracks barely lasted a minute, it often felt like hours when listening. I couldn't make it all the way through, so it's 1 star only.
Album felt like it went on a lot longer than it actually did. There’s like two okay punk songs amongst it, the rest is just drivel.
I wish I could give it a 0
Mostly just noise.
Ei
This album is just gross awful noise. And to make it even worse, all the songs sound the same. If you're going to sound bad, at least have some creativity. Every song on here is one of the worst songs I've ever listened to.
22nd album with group. I don’t like hardcore or post-hardcore. Anything more hardcore than Sex Pistols is probably too hardcore for me. Good Songs - Nothing. Bad Songs - What We Do Is Secret, Communist Eyes, Land of Treason, Richie Dagger’s Crime, American Leather, Lexicon Devil, Manimal, Our Way, We Must Bleed, The Other Newest One, Let’s Pretend, Dragon Lady, The Slave, and Shut Down (Annihilation Man).
Could not understand a word he said, would not have liked it even if I did. Greasy ass music made by greasy ass people
#yup
If you screamed obnoxiously over upbeat guitar riffs in the 70s and 80s then odds are that your project made this list! Vastly below pedestrian project with a sound I’ve heard done wayyy better. At least it was only 38 minutes…
Punk was dead by 1979, there is no reason this album should be held in any respect, rehashing at least 4 year old tropes.
Blah. Not for me
2/10
Not my era, not my genre, and I like audible lyrics.
Sounds like punk rock beginnings… but never made it.
I appreciate punk and its place in history, but with hardcore, unless I heard it when I was, say, 13, the genre is hard for me to get into. Can’t say I’ll be spinning this one again anytime soon but the Wikipedia page for the Germs and Darby Crash is pretty entertaining. Favorite detail: Belinda Carlisle was their drummer but never played with them because of “an extended bout of mononucleosis.”
No. Thanks, but no.
No thank you
not for me, but, you know...i didn't hate it like i hated the replacements. i know it's only 38 minutes long, 16 tracks, but by god...it felt like a long, long listen "let me touch the tips of inculcated desire" - wasn't expecting that! do appreciate lorna doom, great derby name, pretty sure i have even met a couple lorna dooms IRL
Americans trying to be british punk, it failed. The drums were absolute shit, sounded like a kid banging on a tin beyond comprehension why it was allowed on there. Vocal was just annoying. Guitar was nearly good in places
I'm not revealing any secrets: this is ABSOLUTELY not my style. Clearly, this album will have no influence on me. I readily admit that I had a VERY hard time listening to it all the way through, even once.
The best thing I can say about this album is that almost all the songs are short.
Pas mon del
This became very enjoyable once I imagined them all as cats.
Truly, these songs all sound the same: amateur punk with badly-recorded vocals. None of those things are bad in themselves, but the quadruple threat means I couldn't get a lot out of this album, and I got it out in the first three tracks. I saw I was on track 9 and I thought I must be nearly done, then I looked again to see I was just over halfway and said "Oh, fuck!" out loud. That's my review, really. The guitar and piano on the final 9-minute track seem to have no relation to anything else going on in the song, and lost the album another star.
Oof, not for me.
Screaming banshee from the first note. Pure garbage for me.
Now where's that Domestos !?
Poor effort, when compared with other bands from the era
Not my thing.
Unnecessary.
- Kein Lied hat einen Aufbau, es fängt einfach an und geht dann mit derselben Melodie einfach durch - Alle hören sich gleich kacke an - Als Topsong das erste Lied da ich kein Unterschied zwischen den Liedern höre und mir keins gefällt - Kann sein die Lyrics sind gut aber die kann man mit dieser komischen Singstimme kaum erkennen
As a big fan of early punk music, I’m not sure what this is. It seemed to have no direction or melody with a voice that sounded like some dad screaming at his kid. I’m not really sure why this is popular and I’m uninterested in finding out.
No thank you, please.
That sure is a punk album from the 70's.
As another reviewer wrote, this is definitely punk, but not good punk. I got quite far into the album, but then I couldn't take it anymore and stopped listening. Terrible. 1/5
Ugh bad
хуйня. (грубо говоря)
Teenage punk pas fou
Yet another punk album that I just found to be grating
Zero
minus 3 out of 5
Interesting that it was the first full length punk album. Like "Our Way". I doubt I'll listen to it again.
Truly something
too punk for this guy. I was watching the clock waiting for the end
Not my jam. I get it might be influential for punk but it is not good or enjoyable to listen to.
Not her for whatever this is
hated
Bad
This album is turning me into a republican. I find myself thinking these guys need to get out of their mother’s basements and get a proper job. It’s ok to give up on your dreams.
Detesto el punk mal tocado.
To call what Darby Crash did with his voice “singing” would be charitable at best.
Nice music but man I couldn’t understand him for most of the songs.
I think I’m too square to enjoy punk. This had nothing to offer me beyond the other punk I’ve listened to. Give me the Ramones or the Sex Pistols, but a big skip on this.
No. It’s so loud. This feels like ear noise. I don’t hate it with every fiber of my being. This just feels like it was created during a time when people had a lot of feelings and didn’t know how to express them in a healthy way. Therapy is important
Incoherent, really difficult to get through. Just not at all for me.
Punk, aber nicht so meins.
A little frenetic for my taste. It was punk rock, and it was an experience. Not one I really need to have again though.
Didn’t get through the whole thing. Weird in a not particularly good way.
Demonstrates everything I dislike about punk. I can respect it's influence but this was a tough and uninteresting listen. How you can have a 36 minute album with sixteen songs - and one of those songs is 10 minutes long - is beyond me. Glad of it's influence on thrash metal, never want to hear it again.
didn’t like. maybe i shouldn’t have listened to in the morning
Not for me!
Too much punk for me
This album sounds like a dude was listening to the Ramones or Violent Femmes with his girlfriend after sex, she says "I wanna travel the world, we can do better than these guys" and they tried it and failed. It sounds like he's vomiting the lyrics because they taste bad in his mouth. I didn't think I've heard anything more repulsive. Well... Maybe a couple since starting the project. This is one of the worst. Thank God they only cut one album. My rating: 0/5.
I listened to it before work, went and did my whole day, then, when I got home, I settled in to discover my album of the day, having completely forgotten that I listened to this. It’s the literal definition of a forgettable album.
Sorry, I just don't get it. While I would like to say I just don't like punk, there have been a couple artists I could tolerate. This is no such example, as this was the longest 38 minutes ever.
Bogzna da volim pank jako, ali ovo baš jako loše zvuči. Bilo mi je na prvu čudno da ih ne znam, ali sad mi je jasnije. 1/5, 2/10
I'm not a huge punk guy, but I can usually appreciate some of it... that said, I could not appreciate this album. There are *some* interesting musical elements here, and there's some variation between tracks, which is good. Most of the players are decent, too. However, it's all overshadowed by the incessant, contorted groans, shrieks, and rasps coming out of the lead vocalist (intentionally not using the word "singer" here). Since the dude is just gurgling into a mic and hoping the band follows (you can tell they have to add or drop beats to match him), I'd say you could at least listen to the lyrics, but it's honestly hard to understand what he's saying most of the time. It's hard to believe that someone can sound this absurd and not be joking around, and even harder to enjoy listening to it. I really don't care how "influential" this may be; I can barely listen to it without cringing. Would be happy never to encounter this album again.
🤢🤢🤢
Oh the repressed british. More an art form or social document, than music. This succeeds at being repulsive dosh to annoy Mum and Dad in a crushingly boring time? was there genuine protest here? Well done for making cockney sounds even worse. Probably seminal example of a genre and style I don't usually listen too, unless its a sountrack of the 80's. I feel unqulaifies to review. Aborting this one ealry too.
I didn't think they were doing anything at the time. It was pedestrian, boring and utterly predictable in context. It was a complete and utter waste of time listening to this again after all this time. Don't bother.
All the “songs” sound the same: incoherent noise on top of comical snarling vocals. There is no attempt to make anything close to a melody. It seems that their plan (if you can call it that) was to play as fast and as rushed as possible, make up cliched lyrics on the spot and see what happens. An embarrassment to music.
puff que cosa tan repetitiva y aburrida te lo juro 1.25/5
This wasn't great, simply put. Punk albums are hit or miss on this generator, and this was a major miss. Lots of very unpleasant growling noises and the music wasn't exactly good either. The vocals were so god awful that I, at multiple times throughout my listen, wanted to just stop listening to music entirely for the day. Just plain irritating and uninteresting.
Really not for me.
Punk. I did not like this. Just incoherent and loud. Not my kind of music.
Crap!
When the song begins, skip to the middle of the song. Do this for each song. Only two tracks don’t sound like exactly the same song each time. I’m sure I’m supposed to think this culturally significant and groundbreaking, according to music historians, but that doesn’t make it good music. Nothing does, actually.
Crap - I was five songs in and thought maybe I had accidentally played only track 1 on repeat. Tiresome and boring
This is some abrasive stuff. I’ve never lived it but it is quite hard to stomach. Yes, it is punk but also feels low effort. Not a fan
god every minute was horrible. i almost turned it away but had to power through- but the style of “singing” should be banned, and the squeals- god. no thank you.
The album cover delivers the accurate rating of the quality within. 2/10 1 reluctant star.
Awesome thanks
Punk. Growly vocals. All over the place. It would be hard to find something less appealing to me. Rating: 1
As soon as it started I couldn’t wait for it to end.
The bass is good… ⭐️
Shite.
I didn't understand his voice.
It's pretty clear why they only had one album, they were fucking shit.
Nothing really enjoyable about this, even as a punk enjoyed
Hate to sound old man hey you kids cut that racket off but this album was a slog despite being as short as it is. The lyrics were unintelligible, the guitar was sloppy and the drums were basic and useless at times. The only redemptive quality was the bass line throughout the album, solid and full.
Nope
Non il mio genere 1
favorite song: we must bleed. Overall score: 2,3/10
If I was a vine or tendril from the upside down world in stranger things, I would love the album. Such a happy life in a xeno world. But no, not for me. I like it clean.
Nah
This is probably the most boring punk album I've heard on here. Favorite track: "Lexicon Devil"
Yeah that’s not good.
"What we do is secret" yea and it should've stayed that way because that whole album was an attack on my ears. This guys voice annoys me so much and I just could not enjoy this album at all.
Awful
Only thing less enjoyable than new wave is punk music
Influential? Maybe. Entertaining? Maybe not.
This was a rough listen.
I just didn't like punk...
This is terrible, every track sounded pretty much the same.
I know there are fans of this kind of raw, aggressive punk, but I honestly don’t understand how people enjoy it. This is a tough listen; almost every song blends into the next with little variation, and I couldn’t make out the lyrics most of the time. The lo-fi, chaotic energy may be the appeal for some, but for me, it just felt messy and grating. This is one of the rare albums I found myself skipping through just to get to the end.
I understand the need to feel like you should include an album like this on the list - I don’t know if I’ve heard much American punk yet. But this wasn’t a good listen. I’m sure it was probably super entertaining and engaging live! Like, the strange sound they make 1:40 into “Manimal”? Probably pretty fun to hear at a show. I can imagine how lively the crowd could be. And that’s all I can muster up to say for this record!!!
Absolutely not for me.
nothing redeeming here. moving on.
eh
Not for me. 1/5
Is this an April Fool joke? 1/5 1/4/25
An album that is "influential but not actually entertaining to listen to." Wow this was bad....and I normally love punk/grunge. Pat Smear is a legend and so influential (played for a bit in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters) but this was pretty terrible. Not a lot here to compliment but sometimes the guitar riffs are fun. The singing is terrible. "Liked" songs: "What We Do Is Secret" , "Strange Notes" , "Our Way"
Ok
Listened to one song and wanted to gouge my ears out. Decided that was just the first song and to try again and then gave up 10 seconds into the second song
This was pretty rough. I couldn't bear myself to listen to it all.
This is about as bad as a punk album gets. Poor vocals, bad instrumentals. Just audio diarrhea.
Yep that’s a shitty uninspired punk album. Sounds just like every other uninspired punk album.
Certainly no wasted time on this album. But this is also absolutely not made for me. Did not enjoy any part of it. 1/5
Just like a bad GI day, I am flushing this Germs album down the toilet. Not a fan.
Awful
Das Debütalbum "Gl" der amerikanischen Punkband The Germs wurde 1979 veröffentlicht und gilt als ein frühes und wegweisendes Werk der Hardcore-Punk-Szene. Es wurde im Radio Tokyo Studio in Los Angeles aufgenommen, einer Location, die für ihre Verbindung zur kalifornischen Punkbewegung bekannt ist. Die Band, bestehend aus Darby Crash (Gesang), Pat Smear (Gitarre), Lorna Doom (Bass) und Don Bolles (Schlagzeug), war zu dieser Zeit noch relativ unbekannt, aber ihre Energie und rohe Ausdruckskraft waren sofort spürbar. Darby Crash, als Frontmann und Hauptsongwriter, prägte die Gruppe mit seinen oft provokanten Texten und seiner energiegeladenen Bühnenpräsenz. Musikalisch bewegt sich "Gl" im Bereich des Hardcore-Punks, wobei das Album durch seine Geschwindigkeit und den wilden, ungeschliffenen Sound auffällt. Wichtige Songs wie "Lexicon Devil" und "Holiday in Cambodia" (nicht auf diesem Album, aber als früherer Track) sind typische Vertreter des Genres und zeigen die kompromisslose Haltung der Band. Die Songs zeichnen sich durch schnelle, aggressive Rhythmen und einfache, aber eingängige Melodien aus. Der Einfluss von The Germs auf die Punkbewegung kann nicht unterschätzt werden, auch wenn ihre Musik für viele eher schwer zugänglich war. Das Album bietet einen Blick auf die rauen Anfänge des Hardcore-Punks, ohne dabei die gewohnte Produktionsqualität von Mainstreamaufnahmen zu haben. "Gl" ist ein markantes Dokument der frühen Punk-Ära und liefert ein gutes Beispiel für die ungeschliffene Energie und die politische Rebellion, die den Hardcore-Punk prägten. Es bleibt ein wichtiges Album für Fans des Genres, auch wenn es nicht unbedingt massenkompatibel ist.
Bad.
If you forget the fact that this sounds like a mix of Sex Pistols, a printer, and a two year old fucking around, this album is actually pretty catchy. Still sucks, though. Fav song: Lexicon Devil Least fav song: Shut Down
I'll pass
This is an incoherent jumble of raw, scornful, intense, fast-paced, hardcore punk. If you've listened to one track, you've essentially heard them all — similar screeching guitar riffs (by Pat Smear — yes, that Pat Smear), chaotic drumming, and while Darby Crash may have something to express lyrically, I can only catch about one in every four words (at best). The only aspect that occasionally varies is their playing speed, and I never once felt compelled to look up the lyrics, either, in the hope of finding some form of differentiation between the tracks. This may have been an album that shaped the genre, but it's too repetitive to keep my interest. And somehow, amidst all the chaos, it's also kind of bland.
generic punk rock which doesn’t move me at all
Like Ramones but worse and also the singer is the Tasmanian devil
this kicks ass, these guys rule, and I will never listen to this again. 1 star, but like, in a good way. 1 star is what they were going for.
Genuinely couldn’t believe how bad this was
Load of balls
Too punk rock, 1 star
Boring
I want out now.
Das Positive? Nur 38 Minuten. Ansonsten Lärmbelästigung, man kann kaum ein Wort verstehen. Punk ist anscheinend nicht meines.
Huono rääkynä
Viel Geschrei, für mich nicht interessant 1/5
What punk sounds like to people who don't like punk
Every single one of these songs sound the same.
Zu viel hässlicher Gesang.
Jag gillar en del punk men inte den här så mycket.
Abrasive vocals without much support from the rest of the band. This is punk before it finds it's stride. Really just not enjoyable to listen to.
0/100 im so sorry this was not for me
It stinks
Before this project I’d never used the phrase “boring punk album”, but here we are.
nope
This is what I imagined an album made by the Looney Tunes cartoon character Taz, the Tasmanian Devil, would sound like. Not my jam today nor will ever be I'm afraid.
This has all the awfulness of the Circle Jerks album that came up a few weeks ago, but without the virtue of brevity. 1 star.
I could not get into this one.
Hated it
I know it’s punk and it’s supposed to sound like that but my god that’s hard work. Guaranteed to give you a headache and not in a good way.
Scrappy and not my thing really. Favourite track: Land of Treason.
My disdain for this genre grows with every shitty album I have to listen to from this list.
At the least with the Sex Pistols who know what they are talking about. What was this noise? Poured Demestos all over this. “Kills 99.9% of germs dead!”
Nope.
The first song was like 44 seconds long and despite trying to have an open mind I gotta admit: my heart sunk a bit realizing what was likely to come: ear pain. I’ve committed to listen to every album and every single song to truly commit to the idea of the challenge. This one challenged my commitment to that standard.
That was some of the worst punk music I've ever heard; forty minutes of incomprehensible noise. 1.5 stars
Fav: The Other Newest One Least Fav: Manimal Felt very long for 38 minutes
Scratchy Hardcore Punk.
Punk, but the really annoying kind.
I know punk rock isn't about the singer's voice per se, but this dude's voice was absolute horrid. I don't know how I managed even two songs. At some point, the people who made this list have to be trolling us just as much as they are providing us with good music
Sometimes I think about the inclusion of certain albums where the impact is understandable , but this is one of those I didn't like one bit . Very loud and chaotic but in a bad way . For the reason one may like it , I couldn't bring myself to even tolerate it.
punk, not intereseted
This was difficult for me to get through because of the inarticulate, incomprehensible vocals. I was constantly checking how many songs were left in the album before I could listen to something else. I don't even mind punk rock, but I found the vocals so extremely grating that it's a no from me.
If you like this album – FUCK YOU
I probably would have loved this when I was 15. Now I just found it a bit annoying and monotonous after a few tracks. Not half as catchy as their name suggests.
Might have just not been in the mood but not my thing. I fully expect domino-reviews-albums to say this is a cornerstone of his highschool experience. Not for me.
Every single one of these songs sounded exactly the same and I am not here for it
I guess my punk days are behind me cause I didn't like this at all.
The instrumentation is actually pretty decent. Its the "vocals" that are the problem So in my own head canon im gonna belive that a drunk man broke into the studio and held them at gun point and rambled over the whole recording. I personally don't like hardcore punk...
Horrible
Awful
Metal j'aime pas
Unlistenable. This is my worst album so far.
Err (and desperately tries to find something positive to say), it’s slightly heavier/riffier than your average punk? Nah it’s really crap. It’s the sort of album that only a teenager could love and only if they were there at the time. Not surprised I’ve never heard of them.
Good grief, this may be influential but only in a bad way. Belinda Carlisle was almost in the band which might have saved them. I think they described their music as ear cancer which is not something I think bands should aspire to. Total shit.
I never really got the shouty pink scene, and this album is no exception.
This one felt like a whole lot of senseless noise. The mixing was terrible, all I could hear were the cymbals and the guys voice. Guitars barely stood out. I didn't find any kind of overarching theme that stood out and nothing felt like it needed to be here. This feels like the butt of a punk rock joke
Favourite song - our way
Yuk
Not for me 1/5
im bored
Not my thing
Shouty, not enjoyable
I could see this album influencing the punk genre and paving the way for those that came after. But this could be the most influential album ever, I still did not enjoy it one bit.
Old school punk. Anarchy! Not my jam at all. 1.5 stars
Oh god I didn't look at the wikipedia or anything going into this and thought it was going to be an electronic album based on the album art. Man was I wrong. When the first note hit and I realized this was a punk album my heart sank. And not only is this a punk album, it is a pretty darn terrible one through 3 songs. Still just as terrible through 7 songs, luckily it only took at 12 minutes to get through that many songs because this singer is the worst punk singer I have ever heard. I started skipping through random parts of each song and they literally all sound the same so I think I am finished with this one, especially since I have 8 more albums to catch up on. Waste of my time.
Punkrock, men ikke rigtig på den fede måde
Not a huge fan of punk. This did not change that. One-dimensional in the extreme. I think anyone with a basic knowledge of power chords could knock this out. No stand out tracks or low points. It was all the same bland wall of noise, similar to the Slayer album we did.
this is, well, not good.
I’m sure this would have been fun to listen to live back when this was released. The instrumentals are good but the vocals leave much to be desired…
Such a boring album
guess I’m a germaphobe
Sounds like the Sex Pistols. Exhausting.
I've heard of Germs before, mostly because of Pat Smear, who I know about from Foo Fighters, but I've never listened to any of their music before. As far as hardcore albums go, I thought this was pretty meh. The guitar tones and playing didn't really change much from song to song, and the vocals were nearly impossible to decipher. If you're going to make an album that's politically charged, for the love of God, please make it to where the average listener can understand what's being said. I love some good hardcore punk lyrics, but it sucks if I have to go and look them up for every song. This just wasn't a very enjoyable album for me.
disgusting vocals
I think the genre is mislabeled --- should be junk rock, not punk rock. I'd give it 0/5 if I could. Quit after tracks 1 - 3.
How this sloppy noise is influential to anyone is beyond me.
Not my jam
>:(
Album Nr. 41 No Punks. Wobei - es gibt schon den einen und den anderen Punk-Song, den ich mag. Aber definitiv nicht hier.
Wer hört sowas? Lärm!
Yuck - not at all a fan of this music genre!
Never again.
1. zecret - 0 2. communizt eyez - 0 3. treazon - 0 4. richie - 0 5. ztrange notez - 0 6. leather - 0 7. lezicon - 0 8. manimal - 0 9. our uuay - 0 10. uue muzt bleed - 0 11. media blitz - 0 12. the other - 0 13. pretend - 0 14. dragon lady - 0 15. zlave - 0 16. zhut douun - 1
Did not enjoy
Normally I like punk music - but this was really bad. Sorry Germs, only one star
Nada
Hardcore punk. Not for me.... Probably influential in it's time,but I hope to never have to hear it again
Sämst
So nice of them to let that autistic deaf guy do the singing
Naparzanka 1
land of treason, lexicon devil - almost ok shut down - maybe good if i was stoned instrumental sometimes have fun ideas but its all marred by vocals
I don't have time for another ultimately forgettable punk album
Per ora album che mi è piaciuto di meno. Non sono di questo genere punk, mi sembra tanto rumoroso e urlato, quando è una canzone okay però qui è più di una... Poi capisco che questo urlato/sputato è di queato genere, quindi non critico quello che hanno fatto loro ma in generale. Il problema è che non riesco neanche a vedere una struttura dell'album. È stata dura per finire l'album. La parte positiva è che in certe canzoni mi piacciono gli strumenti, chitarra e batteria, sono bravi e vedo tipo un ordine in tutto questo caos.
Passed this one up. Tried to listen.
Nope
This shouty, angry, stick two fingers up at everyone type of music is a full 180 on what I would normally enjoy.
Hate this. No clue what garbage this album is but every song sounds like the vocalist is having a seizure. Couldn't make out a single word and the music was just jumbled noise that sounded like someone learning how to play. Maybe I don't understand hardcore punk rock but this was trash no matter what way I looked at it.
Not my style at all
On the plus side, I can recognize many of the vocals here as actual words. The songs sound like songs to me. On the minus side, this album didn't pass the headache test for me (meaning "do I have a headache after listening to this?"). My brain is just not wired for punk.
I think I would be down with this and I know Lexicon Devil but the album isn’t easily streamable so bye
Their brevity was their greatest strength as a band, both musically and lyrically.
I couldn't get access to this album on my streaming service. Bummer, sounded interesting.
Just No.