L'Eau Rouge

I have no idea what is happening on this album. Its like French heavy rock with a touch of pop. its not for me at all. The album has so moments of dramatic and great music such as Les Enfants but the rest of it is drivle. Favourite song: Les Enfants Least favourite: The rest of the album Album artwork: Cool cover

Pukey ear barf

french metal 😭

The type of album where you finish it and are kind of a loss for words. And not in a good way

Not fan of this one. I never really have been interested in electronic music, and the guitar work isn’t my taste either. Plus, I don’t speak French. I can tell that they’re very experimental, so that’s about the only positive I can muster.

No.

This is honestly one of the most godawful things I’ve been exposed to. It seems to have little or no redeeming qualities.

Fuck this French tom waits ahh shit

Garbage. 1/5

Heavy metal and clown music in one

I didn’t like it at all and I had to make myself to listen until the end. And then I read up on it for a while and decided hey maybe there’s something to it I didn’t get the first time? So then I made myself listen to it again (and I really didn’t want to spend my evening walk with this thing). And turns out I still can’t see why this album should be on the list. I was thinking of maybe giving it a 2/5 on account of it being so experimental. But then I thought that it’s not really such an accomplishment to make something weird if it doesn’t really catch your attention and make you want to relisten again and again. And that’s my main issue with this album. It seems performative and avantgarde for the sake of it. I mean these are not even proper songs. And I like some weird shit but that’s just not it. Also, the vocals are simply comical. He really seems like he’s trying way too hard to be nasty. I’m definitely not going to listen to it ever again. I wish Mr Bungle’s California was on the list instead or please at least one album from Eastern Europe. No? Ok.

Anxiety inducing punk cabaret music?

Bom para aprender palavras novas em francês, mas o álbum em si não gostei

Francês, eco Rock esquisito

No thanks

Wow those were bad sounds

Diving into "L'Eau Rouge" by The Young Gods sadly left little in the way of a lasting impression. It's one of those experiences where, I anticipate that by tomorrow morning, I’ll struggle to recall either the band's name or the album's title. While some of the instrumentation had moments that caught my ear, suggesting a layer of complexity and craft worth noting, the songs as a whole failed to be memorable or engaging. There was a disconnect for me in how the pieces came together—or rather, didn't. The songs didn't seem to make sense, leaving me more puzzled than pleased as I listened. I want to make it clear that my lack of connection with the album isn't due to the language barrier. I've been moved by plenty of music sung in languages I don’t speak, finding beauty and emotion in the melodies and rhythms that transcend words. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case with "L'Eau Rouge." Favourite Tracks: None

I don't know what this is, and I didn't like it. It tries to sound industrial combined with heavy guitars and vocal performance in a mix of Tom Waits and some generic metal "singer" delivered in French. And that's it. I cannot see any structure to the tracks or the album. This could be generated today by suno.ai.

If I wanted to be yelled and growled at in French, I would go to Paris and ask if anyone spoke English.

Dogshit Tom Waits ahh cacophonous stinky French “album”

Sometimes i get to albums and they make me question the mental stability of the man who wrote this list.

there are moments on this album where it kind of sounds like a French version of Tom Waits. The rest of this album it does not jive with me very well. I'm really not a fan of the sound of industrial music, and although there are moments where it sounds like a fucked up French carnival (which, for some reason, I'm fine with), but the rest of it sounds like how my panic attacks feel, so no thanks!

I don't like my music to be scary!

Yeah the vocals really didn’t do it for me, and neither did anything else.

Honestly where do the French get off

Not my thing. Maybe would get another star if I understood French, but I don’t.

Utterly disconnected album. The only through-line is the wannabe Tom Waits vocalist’s constant grumbling. Almost unlistenable.

Really not to my taste. Too much growling, I know it is French, which is a pleasant language, this was not.

Truthfully sounds like yelling in French. Nothing musical about it.

Wouter zei dat het kut was en ik ben het ermee eens.

helemaal kut, niks voor mij

wat is dit nou weer Misschien is de L'eau Rouge het bloed wat uit je oren stroomt als je dit album luistert 1e album bij de 1001 die ik niet ga luisteren Waarom je deze in godsnaam zou moeten luisteren voordat je doodgaat is mij een raadsel, ik had een prima leven kunnen leven zonder dit album ooit te hebben geluisterd 1 ster natuurlijk en als ik nog 1 minder kon geven had ik dat ook gedaan

Not my cup of tea

I tried but I couldn’t get into it. I’m sure it didn’t help that I don’t speak French, but even without that obstacle the orchestral flourishes didn’t engage me and the lead singer reminded me of a bad knockoff of Tom Waits without the swampy charisma.

A challenging listen. Bits of cabaret, bits of sampled heavy guitar riffs, a few strings, all led by Killing Joke- style roaring vocals. To be honest, I found it pretentious, but was that because it was in French? Couldn't engage with it so unfortunately I started to laugh at one point. Maybe some dazzling visuals would have helped.

Listened once. Won’t make that mistake again. Noise in French is still noise.

I really tired to not give this 1 star, but I’m not a fan of industrial, let alone French industrial. It’s a very very dark, angry sounding album. Would be good for Halloween in Quebec or France. 2.7/10

Insoportable

😬

This kinda reminds me of a French Ramstein, but worse. Sorry, I didn’t love listening to this. Sounded like a horror film backing track.

From the musical point of view worth listening, although it´s not my favorite gengre. The stupid screaming in some songs destroys the whole thing a lot for me. 1,5

I don’t know Lloyd, the French are assholes. 1.0/10

Just bad!

I hate the French

Screaming French carnival music. No Thanks.

How do you say, "This album sucked!" in French? Understanding the lyrics wouldn't have made this any better.

The French may know New Wave Cinema but they're out in left field without a glove when it comes to attempting anything resembling industrial music. Somewhat related: this was more carnival music than whatever industrial music is supposed to be.

bljak bljak fuj, najgore do sad, jedva poslusala cijeli album 1.5

Not for me 1/5

Torturous listening experience. The creepy carnival tones of the opening track put me on edge right from the start and the gravelly grinding discordant vibes continued to unnerve me throughout. It's just a french NIN + Rammstein mashup that I do not like.

Creepy combo of carnival music and scary voices. Reminds me of a freaky clown! 🤡

Nope.

Sorry, not my style. Whatever that style is. I couldn’t make it through the first two songs.

1.5

This is really exhausting to listen to.

Dumb.

Jesus that wasn’t for me

Ew I hate this

Wow! This is terrible. Honestly I don’t understand French that well but I just have an intuition that absolute cringey nonsense is being screamed at me. I also just had that black metal deep scream, especially since this is not even that genre.

Awful.

Am ehesten konnte ich noch „La fille de la mort“ und „Charlotte“ etwas abgewinnen.

When the first track started, I thought I was at a circus. And it all went downhill from there. I'm struggling to find a positive to the album. Maybe, the fact I couldn't hear the end of it because of all the blood that had collected in my ears. Would not recomend, avoid at all costs.

Nope

1/5 no no no no!

Not good. I don't love really like industrial generally, and this is even really bad industrial. 1.5/5

I love industrial, but this was bad.

Did not care for this at all.

Well I'm glad I listened to their masterpiece and not one of their shit albums.

French metal. Not my jam

I couldn’t get through two songs

Didn’t make it through, not my ting

Sounds like AI generated metal music, but shittier

A musical? An album? What is this?

Assuming this record was added by accident and was supposed to be on the list of 1001 Albums You Should Die Before Listening To. Yikes.

Nah

It isn't unlistenable from the very beginning. But it gets there pretty quickly.

This is the worst album I have ever listened to.

Well this is shit.

Weird album

I just don’t understand why people like this stuff

why would I care to listen to music so harsh, with so little care given to mesh things together well for feelings to feel right. The cabaret elements, strings and all could have been cool if incorporated better, but it all feels so goofy, especially the lyrics too. Probably for people who like to be way more depressed than me

Nope. Calling this music is being kind

interesting, I guess Industrial rock isn't for me.

Nej inte bra alls

Just not very good

No non-English albums

What was all that about then? Got it off your chest did you? Have something to eat and a little sleep and you'll feel better in the morning.

Arrêtez le bateau, je veux descendre. Un chef-d'œuvre? Mon cul saigne!

not terrible sounding but personally no desire to ever listen to French metal

Câlisse, qu’est-ce qui se passe, là?!

Swiss industrial punk with surreal cabaret sounds interesting in theory, but (at least in this case) doesn’t do it for me.

Too thrash for me. I skipped most of the tracks after the intro

Eh, the French part made me chuckle but the whole energy just wasn't for me. 1.5

This is definitely not my thing. I tried.

I prefer my music to be more melodic. Also, all I could think of the whole time was how much my throat would hurt if I tried to sing like that.

At first, I thought maybe I'd like it more if is spoke french. By the end, I think i'd dislike this in any language.

This is a weird album. Couple of songs in the beginning sound like they could be at place at a circus, then it turns industrial. But I don't think I liked any of it.

Nice album! Very original, groundbreaking, once in a lifetime achievement. Inspired countless different bands like X and Y. We are truly living in the Post - L'Eau Rouge era. Excellent stuff. The only issue? It's unlistenable and I hate it. Of course it's only a small problem in a sea of superlatives, but the hatred is of purest quality, so I'm sorry The Young Gods, it's a very considerable 1.

Nope, not my style.

My second one star album. I feel like this album was created by the CIA so they can use it to torture prisoners. Straight up painful to listen to.

Industrial rock can be entertaining. Not this time. French creepy voice... like a nightmare or a horror movie.

interesting juxtaposition of accordion(?) music and heavier stuff. Not my thing though

Weird and not good.

First song was promising. Didn't keep up. 2 1

I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS

Didn't enjoy this one I'm afarid

Haphazard.

Extremely off-putting. These guys are begging for a 1 star review. Here you go.

😵‍💫...nop (PSP)

Rating: 1.3

I couldn’t get through this at all.

Listening to this album was a true torture

Swiss French? No thanks.

Le’ no thankeauuu!”

This album was just really angry. Really didn't understand it or enjoy it at all.

Awful. Lots of noise with a man trying to sing with a "grough" voice

Noise! Not a nice noise though

нет

This aint it

1st song terrible， sounded like psychedelic circus music, turns out half the album sounds like this. The other half has nice heavy instruments but ruined by the vocalist sounding like a DnD goblin

Вот я еще швейцарское каменелое говно не слушала Швейцарское «искусство» это точно то, на что жизнь не надо тратить Ну может быть это было бы интересно, но точно не мне

Dear GOD was this bad. Just French guys taking rammstein and making it more primal. The assumption I’m taking with me into every one of these albums is “there has to be something here and if I don’t see it, I must not be gettting something” I’m willing to accept that but this was bad.

I can't even lie, a lot of this sounds like circus music or something straight out of a children's movie. Not my cup of tea. Whoever is singing, his voice is way too harsh. Fave track(s): Les enfants

Jännää samplaystä, ymmärrän sen, mutta tonnin seteli -ilme ja listan laatijoiden halveksunta kuvaa kokemusta paremmin.

Symphonic metal was a mistake.

Merry go round metal? I'm not sure what that was.

I couldn't even make it all the way through this

This album is death metal meets the carnival In places. Just plain weird.

Never thought I’d rate something other than country music a 1

Not a fan at all. Too much growling and screaming for me

Miks ranskalainen musiikki on tällasta

Ei helvetti... tunnen itseni kahdeksankymppiseksi mummoksi, joka kuulee Sex Pistolsia vuonna 77. Paitsi että tällä kertaa mummo on oikeassa.

Straight up garbage. Who listens to this bullshit, and how does it get on the top 1001? Somehow the singing sounds like an even worse Tom Waits and he's a talentless hack. 1/10.

My French isn't good enough to understand the lyrics. The music isn't my style... Not for me.

Ok I gave it 2 tracks and couldn't take anymore

I'm very open minded when it comes to music and can usually find something I like about it but I really struggled with this one. Massively over produced pile of shite!

French punk. Not for me

Tracks 1 & 3 are good, the rest…meh…French thrashing and screaming.

knew going into this that it was something i wasn't going to enjoy. like i actually cringed at the thought of listening to this. i'd generally regard myself as pretty patient but it was hard to sit through this record. by track 5 it finally hit me how ridiculous this record is and i started giggling at it. i would put this above "is not music" tier but it still fucking sucks lol

This was not easy to listen to. Man, I do not like this. Good to know that industrial rock is just as bad as it sounds.

Really disliked this. Put me in a bad mood for hours afterwards.

Shitty noise. It sucks.

Wow, I hated this.

Nope

Dreadful!

This was pretty hard to get through.

French/Scandinavian metal 1.5

Hardcore underground punk from Drive Like Jeru yesterday and this Swiss industrial noise today. Oh dear. The only thing I can say is that it was vaguely a novelty to hear classical strings used up against industrial production and heavy drums and guitars. Another album that is not to my taste.

Ahhhhhhh, what am I listening to??? Gritty, angry yelling in French? This is a hard album to get through, but I thought there was maybe just enough charm to keep it from 1 star. Unfortunately, it was 54 minutes long, which is entirely too much of this album. It never changed or got better, just stayed stagnant and blah throughout.

Basura francesa

It's a no from me dawg. This one is edgy, weird, experimental, but just does not pan out. There's a lot of industrial, house and classical influences here, but man, it turned into a whole lot of noises that don't actually fall in line together and ends up being a sporadic mess. I will likely be avoiding anything described as "baroque metal" in the future, because this is supposed to be the best of that genre. Disclaimer: I do not speak french, so I may potentially be missing out on some insightful lyrics. I have a hunch that I am not, but who knows. Fave tracks: Nope.

French industrial carny music. Sleazy vocals, and cold emotionless music, big hands and the smell of cabbage. Best Tracks: Rue des Tempetes; Charlotte; Longue Route

French rock is not for me, this album has shown me that

ah c’est ca du coup les albums francophones de la liste

Not a fan.

Dude. I really didn’t care for this. It’s not that it’s in French but for sure that doesn’t help. The main problem is that I despised the vocals. I found the instrumentation annoying and tedious. Just. Really didn’t like it.

Not my cup of tea

Oh my goodness what on Earth?!? What is the point really?? This is like a guy shouting in French over the Flight of the Bumblebee but more like light of the wasps!! For fucks saaaaake!

Another horrible metal album just to try and spoil my week. Unbelievable irritating. As Grace said, super stressful.

Yeah it's shit.

Idk didn’t like it

Absolutely bizarre.

Not really for me...electronic heavy metal with lead vocals that I dislike. 1.5 🌟

Fucking garbage Mongolian throat singing sounding ass yelling broken French while the most repetitive and horrible instrumentals play in the background. Now I feel bad for all the albums that I already rated a 1/5, because this is miles worse than all of them. Probably the worst thing I've ever heard in my entire life, no exaggeration.

Na, está bien escuchar esto pa saber que no me interesa nada de lo que conforman estos sonidos.

Que puto miedo chaval. No es lo mio.

Tim music. Total nightmare.

Not my type

This was neither entertaining nor enjoyable. The most interesting song was the last one: Pas Mal, but it was too little too late, I already tuned out.

I listened to the first song and just no. Done with this one.

Unsettling, horror movie music

82. L'Eau Rouge - The Young Gods 10 tracks. They are singing in French but I'm going to stick with it, (if I can) just because. It better be fucking good because they aren't even bloody French, (they're Swiss). The strings mid-way though track 1 stopped me binning this off. This started off bad with French singing, the strings kept me on, but the accordion music and the screaming lost me for good. French accordion screaming? No thanks. 1/5

Wow... This was just.... awful. Terrible. Why is this album on this list? Why must anybody hear this album ever? This album needs to die and be buried so nobody has to suffer through hearing it ever again. I need to sue The Young Gods for permanent brain damage because it will take a long time to forget this. I would give this negative stars if I could. What I'm saying is that I did not care for this.

French knock-off Tom Waits.

So bad i couldnt finish it

“L'eau rouge is the second album by industrial band The Young Gods, released in September 1989 by Play It Again Sam Records. It is usually referred to as their masterpiece.”

it sucks

An awful slog. The only things I liked were some guitar moments. 2/10

i did not enjoy this

I possibly didn’t give this a fair chance but every time the vocals came in I felt annoyed. I don’t know how this is even in the list 1*

Not sure there were any redeeming factors particularly.

Nonsense.

I have no idea what the hell I am listening to right now. I don't mind foreign music, but this is just confusing. 'Longue route' is slightly catchy, but the rest is a hard pass.

No words.

Probably won’t revisit

Not for me.

Well, I can say that I successfully listened to this album before I died. A bit torn on whether I deeply regret it, or if it was an important step in a well-rounded musical education. So that was "industrial rock." After powering through some of the incredibly awful things in the first few tracks, I realized that there are some moments with some interesting music. There are tidbits of tolerable metal riffs, and occasionally some electronic or string sounds that don't make me cringe. But those are too rare, and ruined by, well, everything else. Not all experimentation should be recorded, sold, and replayed.

No bueno.

Not for me

I am very intrigued by this album. But at the same time, I don't like it. But it has to be one of the most interesting albums I've heard yet.

I thought I was going to enjoy this in a Gogol Bordello kind of way at first. But then I hated it. Couldn't get past the third track.

Sucks. 3.9/10

Couldn't get into this at all. Not my kind of thing, and I don't think I know anyone who would immediately like this.

não consegui ouvir, wtf

Industrial electronic, akin to a French Kraftwerk.

Complete & utter French garbage

Jätte- jätte- jättekonstigt. Vetefan om jag kommer lyssna på hela. Spolade igenom alla låtar, NEJ tack. 1/5

Not without talent but not for me. Endured rather than enjoyed

Just wow.

Shit

c'était de la merde

Couldn't get through it. Non, merci

no thx

No thank you.

It's French

Je ne sais pas

Horrendous noise and indecipherable vocals in French. I couldn't make it through the whole album.

Deep voice nonsense

Not for me...

Not my thing

Very weird, eclectic mix. Liked Longue Route, but not that much beyond it.

POOP

im sure the sound is unique or something but its not really that great

Stopped like 3 songs in. Really bad. French metal from a band that doesn’t know french.

Industrial rock, not really my thing

Icefrog album