Reviews (page 8 of 8)
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.