GI

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.

После перерыва возвращаюсь. 1979, панк рок. С первых нот альбом просто бьёт по зубам, ничего себе. Но с другой стороны я не могу сосредоточиться ни на одной песне. Я понимаю, что альбом, скорей всего, важный и жанроопределяющий, ноо... слушаю вообще без удовольствия. Что это, одна звезда? Думаю, да. Не зашло. Даже до конца слушать не хочется.

If it was without the vocals it would get 4 stars.

Lots of thrashing around but not much of interest here

Sincere, brave, exciting, powerful, innovative. In other words - terrible. Absolute unlistenable sounds, straight from My Own Personal Guantanamo. I might never recover. Pain.

Punk like a meme

Impressions: Not for me. But this album reminds of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010) Favorite Tracks: None. This was hard to listen to. Rating: 1/5

This is the first time in this list that I’ve disliked an album so much that I can’t make myself go back and finish it. I got half way through so I could reach Lexicon Devil (their most streamed song on Spotify) hoping that there’s finally be a half decent song on this album. But no, if anything it was just marginally less terrible than the rest. I hate the vocal delivery. The vocalist is just growling every single word. You can hardly make out what’s being said. That’s not necessarily a bad thing but this album doesn’t really have much else to make up for it. I’m not surprised this group was short lived. I never want to revisit their music again. 1/10 Top 1: 1. Lexicon Devil

Well, there are a lot of punk acts from that era i like, but definitely not this one

Not sure how this list can be considered 1001 albums you need to hear when probably a quarter of them are punk albums. Pretty tired of the mid level punk that is thrashing and yelling about their problems. This album is exactly that but a little worse. 3.3/10

I regret to report I could not make it through the first minute. Not for me!

I could only listen to one song on Spotify and it was not too great

Hahahahah. Niet mijn ding.

noise

sorry but no

90% is unavailable on Spotify, but media blitz is kinda ass

Another non apple album which is a bummer because I was sort of interested in some old punk. I have to keep remembering we only have about a year left of this list and days like this make me glad for it.

No no no

Won't play on spotify

This album stinks

I guess you had to be there

Noise. Punk noise. How is this on any list of any greatest albums? I realize 1001 albums is a lot of music. But this is just pushing it.

I instantly disliked this, but tried my very best to not let that first impression affect me for the rest of the album. But it was impossible to turn it around. Maybe the worst record we've had on this list so far and I cannot fathom why it is on the list at all. Maybe it was a pioneer back when it came out and paved the way for some genre, no idea. Is it here as a benchmark mark for how bad an album can be? When I looked at the number of songs on the album I got seriously scared, but the silver lining was that each song was just 1-2 mins long, amounting to a very short total playtime around 38 mins. And that turned out to be the only good thing with this album. I would've given this 0 stars if I could.

It's hardcore punk. It isn't really my jam but some of it's fun for a track maybe. A whole punk album like this though is too much for me and it becomes a slog. I don't really get what makes this album special but it seems to be quite so maybe that is why? Anyway i kind of enjoyed Lexicon Devil but the rest of the time I was mostly hoping for it to be over.

Maybe I don’t get punk. This just feels like rough musicianship, rough production quality, and angst.

Awful

en koskaan luota enään mihinkään... odotuksena 20minuutin biisejä, 1 elektronisesti tuotettu sointua toistetaan 4000 kertaa... shokki, shokki iski korviin. punk band...not pink...punk...1 minute songs.. influentiaalinen kuulemma. jos meikän musiikkiuran huippu olisi tässä niin meikäkin tappaisi itseni (heh one liner tyyppinen kommentti dark humor) manimal

i just dont like punk it sounds like some guy screaming with out of tune instruments. Nothing creative about it id rather listen to pots and pans being hit by knives and forks. Also sex pistols just do it better and im not even that big of a fan of them

The slower ones were just about alright, but overall I didn't like it.

Nope.

???

I listened to about twelve minutes of this album. This is music Rodrick Heffley would listen to and that’s not a compliment. I actually dig the instrumentals but I cannot fucking stand the vocals. DNF.

Awful - nothing interested me besides some of the final track. Couldn't wait for it to end.

Too punk for me

Album unavailable on US streaming

Je sais pas trop quoi pense. Pour vrai j’ai pas regarde l’annee de parution ni le wiki mais pour vrai j’ai trouve ca mauvais. Geulage, genre de punk mais pas de musicalite. La derniere chanson ayoye. Ca m A turnoff. 1.75

He sounded like a Sim singing for 40 minutes. I think I understood about 5 words the whole album. It wasn't on Spotify so I had to listen to it on Youtube, and it was basically a never ending nightmare.

Alsof je je favoriete kroeg binnenstapt, maar er blijkt die dag een lokaal bandje te staan. Met een enthousiast, maar beschonken zanger. We doen vandaag maar ergens anders een biertje...

I thought I liked hardcore punk, but it turns out I just like the Bronx. In common with other hardcore punk bands (excluding the Bronx), the music is basic and tuneless and the vocals painfully bad. The only good thing about this album is the cover art. Rating: 1.5/5 Playlist track: Lexicon Devil Date listened: 15/04/23

Only good thing I can say is that it was thankfully short. Couldn't even go through the last song when I realized it was 9 minutes long. To me it is just a barrage of noise and it doesn't really seem to end. Horrible, I never want to listen to this album again.

This sucks as an album, the songs suck and also the individual instruments suck. Guitar sounds like the player bought his first distortion pedal and just had his first guitar lesson the day before. Bass player is pulling his strings like he has te compensate for something... Way too edgy sound. And the singing is just the worst of all.

It's really just noise to me

I guess this would be about the message and not the musical ideas. If that's the case it would've helped the cause to make the lyrics audible.

This has all of the characteristics of a shitty hardcore punk album that I would give a two any day of the week. Unfortunately, it's not on spotify which knocks it down a point as well as just being shitty enough all around that I feel fine giving it a 1 regardless of the spotify technicality.

A complete racket

Don’t want your album on Spotify? Take this 1 star L.

Nasty, noisy, primite hardcore punk, it was difficult to get through those 38 minutes.

Not really loving the Punk, but you could tell they were

Nei, nei, nei. Kjedelig punk

I'm a fan of punk but this isn't my kind of punk. On first listen it just comes across as super unrelenting and unintelligible. Hard to really pick out any standout tracks, given that it all just kind of has the same feel to me on the first listen. Standout Tracks: N/A.

Awful shouting Just awful

Punk killed rock n roll to leave us with this? A little goblin boy let loose in the studio. Didn’t understand a word he said. I feel like in the perfect mood this could peak at three stars but I was pretty fuckin sick of it by track three.

Yeah I mean it's definitely noisy, can't take that away from the boys #dadtake. Can't say this one really gelled with me - his voice is not my cup of tea and it's nothing I haven't heard before. Some songs were basically unintelligible, which is fine if it's not the same guitar chords just over and over.

Pure noise

Only one song on Spotify available

I know this record is important but I kinda hated it. The bandsaw vocals, thin production and terrible bass playing made this a tough listen, and I needed a lot of imagination to picture the live energy.

Lousy punk rock

hardcore punk is ein bissi zu wild für mich :( instrumentals sind eh geil teilweise aber das brabbeln vom sänger taugt mir nicht so.

Not for me.

This album was unavailable to me on any of the streaming platforms I use so I listened to another album by this band. It was not my thing at all. The singer sounded like he wished he was Johnny rotten and I swear to god he sounded like he was chewing his own face at times. No thank you.

Not my cup of tea. Feels like one of those bands who are more famous than they should be because of tragedy? Too scratchy and tuneless; the music isn't great and you can't really hear much of the lyrics. Apparently it's the first hardcore punk album, but I don't think there's much there that we haven't heard from other artists recording earlier in the seventies? 1/5, it's just not nice to listen to and has very little in the way of redeeming features.

Didn't enjoy this at all.

Not for me, understand that it's punk but personally found it too samey.

This project has made me realise I have a very low tolerance of punk and there's far too much of it on the list. This was awful.

I can see that this was an important and influential album, just not a great album.

Feel like I’m listening to someone angry about the things going on around them at the time. Sound like Nam evaders

Meh. This album isnt even on Apple Music at the time of this review, so I went and listened to some of the tracks on other services. Nothing special, not worth comment. 1/5

Feels totally unnecessary. Just aping UK punk. Rubbish

Punk was a mistake. 1

Although I didn’t get to listen to the whole album I could tell I wasn’t going to enjoy it. Punk is not my thing *

god bless the people who enjoy this album, because i'm not one of them. the vocals were just too rough, and i couldn't find many positive things because the vocals ruined the whole album.

I liked a lot of the instrumentation on this album, but the vocals almost ruined it for me on nearly every track -- just not my thing. I thought Lexicon Devil and Manimal were two of the more well-rounded songs, both musically and vocally.

Well, at first I couldn't believe my ears. This album sounds like my hypothetical pals creating a punk band and handing me their first demo for a review. My answer would be "I kinda liked the vibe, but there's a lot of ahead of you". Stockholm syndrome made me listen to it twice. To their credit their guitarist and drummer did their best. However, vocals. Later I read about the band's history and it made a little more sense - first punk album in LA that sparked a new trend in the USA. Lead vocalist being an anarchist and nihilist, who died a year after release from heroin overdose. It's his magnum opus, a manifest against the world he knew and he didn't agree with. However, it doesn't justify the decision to put it on the 1001 list. Overall a painful experience from the music perspective, but an intriguing story behind it.

No powiem szczerze - niezbyt mi się podobało

Każdy utwór brzmi tak samo. Wszystkie dźwięki nachodzą na siebie i przekrzykują się, zamiast tworzyć jakąś całość. Tak jak Deep Purple zrobiło sobie świetne jam session w "Live in Japan", tak to brzmi jak bardzo nieudane, garażowe jam session w wykonaniu kalifornijskich nastolatków. Nawet jeśli jakiś utwór zaczynał się fajnie i miałem zamiar się przekonać do punku, tak w momencie, gdy pan Derby Crash zaczynał jęczeć i krzyczeć (bo śpiewem to ciężko nazwać), cały czar pryskał. <<Po przesłuchaniu drugi raz edytuję wpis - perkusja przeszkadza mi tu o wiele bardziej, niż Jęcząca Marta>> Pierwsza część albumu ma za zadanie odstraszyć metalowców, druga część jest już raczej dla koneserów - lżejsza, bardziej melodyjna, część kawałków jak Media Blitz czy The Other Newest One pozytywnie mnie zaskoczyły. Kolejny z albumów w stylu "wpływowe, ale każdy po nich zrobił to lepiej", z tym że tu nie mam oporów przed wystawieniem 1.

Nie mam nic do punków, ale ten album to był zbiór nieprzyjemnych dźwięków. Perkusja i gitary piszczały w uszach, a wokalista próbował połączyć mumble-rap z speed metalem i był całkowicie niezrozumialny. Nawet napisy podawały część zwrotki jako "incomprehensible". Ostatnie utwory były troszkę lepsze, ale żeby się do nich dobić to istna katorga. 2/10 nie polecam.

Fucking noise. F-

Guitar noise accompanied by screaming, what's there to like?

sounds like random yells. horrible

the worst thing I have ever heard...songs 1 and 2. Didn't even click on 3

I'd rather listen to a drill having a go at a concrete wall

Since this came out in 79, I guess I can't make my comment about the fact that the hardcore guys were just punk wannabes who showed up too late. Some critcs say Germs lyrics are brilliant, but I've read them while listening to the tracks and still couldn't make them out - at times, I was sure I had the wrong song. However, I will say honestly, that I like this at least twice as much as all the hardcore that's been sent our way so far.

This is peak punk. Can't understand anything the singer is saying though. 3/10.

2/10

Just not a vibe I'm into right now

Couldn't even finish this

nope, like the worst of nu metal and American punk

I started listening to the 1001 albums with the intention of giving each album at least one full listen. And today I broke that intention. I got about 6 songs in and realised it’s all the same noise but with different (indistinguishable) lyrics attached to the tracks. in 1979 this may have been “cutting edge” today in 2020 it’s just noise, and not the good type either. It should be left in the 70’s it’s hasn’t aged well

I don't like it when he hijg/roept in de micro :(

Not for me. At all.

1.5

Didn't like anything about it. Especially vocals.

No idea if this album is of significance. Not heard of them. Not inclined to go any further.

i probably would've killed myself too if i was responsible for creating this garbage

Dit soort muziek is vooral bedoeld om mensen aan te sporen ook muziek te maken: Zie je wel? Echt niet moeilijk, je hoeft niet te kunnen zingen, niet creatief te zijn, gewoon een beetje snel doorrammen en dan heb je zo een album vol.

Na 1 nummer al klaar mee. Pat Smear van Nirvana en Foo Fighters zat hier bij, maar daar is dan ook alles mee gezegd.

Even snel doorheen geskipt maar dit trek ik echt niet.

Dan denk je Stille Zaterdag rustig op te starten, krijg je dit!

Fucking awful punk rock. I will never understand.

Ew.

Spotify didn’t seem to have this one. Listened YouTube for like 10 seconds. Not my style

Although having worked for a short period as a sound engineer in hard rock an trash metal and commercial music, I could not really appreciate this hardcore punk album. Although I could recognize a lot of riffs in the music to be hard rock and trash metal riffs.

Not on Spotify but it sounds like I would hate it

Not my jam. Some decent sounds but not for me

Ew

1979. Key Songs: Lexicon Devil

If you read this, i've jumped out of my window.