Reviews (page 7 of 7)
The cover art is the best thing about the album along with the last track being over. It is as if someone who just finished doing 5½ fat long white lines of nose candy, picked up their instrument and yelled RECORD DAMN IT! I have gotten through 10 minutes yet I feel like I have spent a lifetime trying to find a melody.
There were glimmers of music which I could enjoy in here but they were few, far between and didn't last long. I think that enjoying this sort of music takes a lot of work, which I'm not prepared to put in for this.
That's to much random Jazz for my liking. I get it; it's Jazz, but it's not the type I enjoy. It comes at you hard right out the gate.
This album isn't available to me here.
1/5 for making me scour the internet to find this pile of sh!t.
it's literally just noise.
Freejazz trifft Punk. Ich finde es schrecklich....
Can't find it anywhere
Pure noise. Didn't like it at all.
In my professional opinion, they should have played better so that this album would have sounded better. I hate John Zorn more than I hate Jim Zorn after listening to this.
Now I have a headache.
Annoying it's not on Apple Music! Or at least it's hard to find so had to go to Youtube for this one. Well this already isn't some early morning easy listening. Alright not gonna lie I did not make it all the way through on this one. A song would end and then immediately go into what sounded like the exact same jazz-thrash as before. I'm very cool with music like that but not an entire albums worth. 1.5 and rounding down. I won't be back. Also John Zorn is probably Jim Zorn's brother so he can go right ahead and fuck himself.
did i get past the halfway point of this album. no. is there any reason to. i think probably also no.
If I ever want to cause a panic attack I will listen to this again. I struggled with the lack of melody, lack of beat, it was too chaotic. It felt like brass players trying to one up each other.
This is not an ensemble; it's a bunch of musicians playing random shit on their instruments for 40 minutes. How the fuck this made it on this list, I will never know. There are moments where you can somewhat hear the virtuosity of individual instruments, but the whole is not better than the sum of the parts. This is like listening to a bunch of children playing whatever the fuck they want on their instruments. My beginner youth orchestra sounded better than this. Maybe this is what jazz sounds like to aliens.
p615. 1989. 1 star Intolerable and unremittingly violent jazz improvisation. My ears are bleeding.
Dear god. Made it 11 minutes in and had to stop. Was on YouTube so I couldn’t even read anything to distract myself. Kept thinking something listenable would come on eventually. It did not
Holy everloving shit. I am glad I read a few album reviews to understand what the intention of this album was. That was hard to listen to. I do recognize the experimental nature of the music, and there are some cool components to it, especially the fact that it's all improv I think, but that was extremely overwhelming with no breaks and not particularly fun.
Warning: It's jazz. Bad jazz.
This is the worst thing I’ve heard in my life. Reminiscent of a school jazz band before the conductor has arrived, it could be used as a cruel and unusual punishment method. The only reason it gets 1 star is because it isn’t possible to give negative scores.
It’s never a good sign when I see that I’ve been generated album by an experimental saxophonist. You might not believe it, but it’s not really my scene. Smooth jazz trumpet, sure. Experimental saxophone, doubt it. Songs I already knew: none Favourites: none When was the last time you listened to an album that’s existence made you angry? This sounded like a bunch of people playing their own songs on their own instruments as fast as they can without a care in the world for what the other band members are doing. I feel like people that enjoy this are also the people who somehow manage to find beauty in a wet floor sign in an art gallery. If you’re deaf, you might be able to tolerate this. If not, stay away. It’s not worth harming yourself by listening to this mess.
Sounds like a bunch of kids playing random notes and beats. Not for me.
This is a lot of chaotic noise. I’m only on track one. We’ll see how the rest of this goes and whether I make it all the way through. Five minutes in: Ok, I’m hearing some actual melody. Six minutes in: Never mind. Nine minutes in: I’m tapping out.
Solo lo he encontrado en YouTube subido a las bravas por un usuario. Unos 40 minutos de jazz. Empieza demasiado arriba para mi gusto ¿heavy jazz? Esto es infumable, supongo que habrá quien le guste pero le meto una estrella y listo.
All throttle, no brakes. The musicianship here – no, the *athleticism* on display here is amazing. Sprinting through a marathon the whole time. I *like* Ornette Coleman. I love *his* free jazz. I love what he brought to music. There's a purity in his performances. Zorn's interpretation is too much. Now I'm going to listen to Trout Mask Replica to cleanse my palate.
Unlistenable
I need to hold 1s on other albums so I have something to mark this one with
I like jazz and many of free jazz in general but I was deeply disappointed in this album. It is actually a tribute but was way overdone. The first half is practically unlistenable and not accessible at all, it improves a bit in the second half but it is still messy, noisy without any direction or harmonies. I managed to listen to it but it was enough for once in my life, thank you very much.
Noisy, not enjoyable
Nope
Its John Zorn. Dont know what I was expecting and I was still bored.
Ummmm yeah, so that just happened. I feel like my eardrums were violently assaulted by crap and will never be the same again. Sucks so bad. No wonder everybody else hates it too.
God god awful
this is one of the worst things i've ever listened to in my life
I just think it's complete nonsense. NONSENSE NONSENSE NONSENSE.
idk this shit wasn't even on spotify lmao
traumatising deja vu
Literally just noise
Chaotic speed jazz. I dislike.
It was not music. The only cool thing is the album title.
Utter garbage. Sounds like a middle school band warming up. Nobody is listening to anyone else, they're just trying to make the loudest noise. That's not music. It's angering. Someone needs to confiscate Zorn and Berne's saxophones. Those poor instruments are being abused and need to be saved. I had to break this album up across three days just to get through it because I could only handle about 15 minutes of the chaotic noise before I had to take a break. I hate this. I hate every minute of it. I hate that it's on this list and I hate that I had to give it my time.
The scorching hot tomato from my toasted sandwich burnt my mouth whilst listening to this. I don't know which experience I enjoyed more. I don't mind the whole wall of noise thing, within the context of a song. But not for 40 relentless minutes. I know people say art needs to be challenging at times, but you wouldn't go to a restaurant because it had a challenging menu. You go because the mojitos are nice.
Can't listen 1
This album is the soundtrack to a panic attack. It's as if a bunch of incredibly talented jazzbos got together and all played their instruments as loud and fast as possible without any regard for what anybody else was playing. Everyone is good at what they do, but doing it together is just an assault on the ears and it makes me very anxious. I could barely get through this one.
Jesus christ no, why
I got through about half..I just couldn’t. Thrash drums and screaming sax in a way I can’t follow or ‘get’
Even this was a bit out there for me. I’d have preferred just an Ornette Coleman album.
Preferred the game.
I just didn’t get it.
As much as I want to be hip enough to do so I cannot handle noisy jazz
That was certainly something
When art is so confusing only a few people enjoy it then it’s hard to consider it special. You shouldn’t have to be a jazz or music scholar to understand what is going on here but it seems that way. The free jazz composition of playing impromptu may work with one person playing at a time but when multiple people with the same instrument do it then it sounds like this chaotic mess that it is. Call it what you want but enjoyable is not one of those words. 1.7/10
Yeah I hate John Zorn
Avant-garde Jazz that was not my sound at all.
Azz: sassofono e batteria per 41 minuti è troppo. È troppo anche per 5 minuti.
Jazzy noise
Not a fan at all.
Jazz caótico. No se distingue del ruido sin más. Un 1.
This was awful. It sounded like a group of people who have never played instruments before went into a room and tried them out. There is no reason for this to be on this list. If I could give a lower rating, I would.
0/5 They say that "Those who can do, and those who can't, teach." This guy should have been a teacher. It was such auto-musical-erotic-ego-stroking-bullshit. Even Spotify wouldn't host it, and they have every Pitbull single!!!! 🤣
Jesus fucking Christ what a pile of runny horse shit. No wonder it isn't on Spotify: IT'S NOT MUSIC!!!
Ikke tilgængeligt
Not on spotify
I want to give this less than one star. Ouch.
Just pure chaos idk who sits down and listens to this I'm sure its technically impressive but damn its genuinely headache inducingly unlistenable.
oof not for me
Que coño es esto Turbio y raro,el disco no se puede escuchar,pero he buscado cosas de este señor y es mu raro todo. La resaca no ayuda (PSP)
Not in Spotify
John Zorn is a criminal for this, a massive musical terrorist unchained
This opens with an absolute cacophony of noise. And it really doesn't get better... but you do get better at listening to it.
CHAOOOOOOOOOOS, not in a good way
Possibly the worst one I’ve listened/been subjected to so far
Some people said listen to the end and you would be surprised. I was. It is surprising this ever got released, ever got onto this site and I ever had to listen to it. Not least until the end. For the UK people amongst us, this is the joke band from Jazz Club on the Fast Show.
Not supported on spotify
Avant-garde experimental jazzy is never good.
Andy told me not to listen to this and I trust him
Buckle up you chuckle fucks we are headed down to the fifth layer of hell as we experience anger in music form. Normally I like jazz but not in the context of being held captive in the sunny resort town of Guantanamo Bay in the off season. I can only imagine the sort of people who would intentionally subject themselves to this with enjoyment would own an assortment of gimp masks and the number one item on their to-do list is a bit of dick and ball torture.
Nothing against Jazz, but this is just Drums and Sax on speed. Utterly horrible. 1/5
Would love to hear the author's justification for this one.
No thank you. Album cover fucks though.
This is not what I had planned for the weekend.
It's strange to hear Napalm Death and grindcore in general being cited as an influence and inspiration for a jazz artist tribute album. It's also interesting that the folks at 1001 did not choose any Ornette Coleman albums for their list, despite his winning the Pulitzer prize for music. So I took a listen to some of the original Coleman tracks that John Zorn covered. They are much more listenable, and needless to say, much longer.
To much for me
John Wick in a pig farm.
First half is nearly unlistenable. Second half is a bit better, especially \"Feet Music\". Not my style at all.
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Abrasive
1. Where are the jazz police when you need them?
Aaaarghhh! Kill me now!
Dit is een van de ergste dingen die ik in tijden heb gehoord. Dit is muziek om door in een gekkenhuis te belanden. Ik kan werkelijk niet geloven dat iemand dit als beste album indient.
what did i just hear
No
Pretentious. Artsy. Crap!!!!!!!
Couldn't make it past 14 mins.
yikes. if this is considered jazz then i am not a fan. this sound was worse than nails on a chalkboard. this is not music 🤨🤨🤨
what the fkng hell was definitely down for some cool jazz, not this absolute and utter mess. Would - or could - have been amusing if there was one 45 second passage like this to start the album, then it settled into something listenable, but it does not - it's a chaotic violent garbage plate of musicians who might know their jazz but they play it like they've been on coke for 48 hours and in between have been fed pixie stix. Or the creatures from the movie Gremlins but sped up to 16x the speed and insanity. What an exhausting disaster. I tortured myself and made it through. This is unquestionably in the small runoff for worst albums I've ever heard. 1/10 1 star.
Un asalto a los sentidos y es como si el jazz fuese pasado por una trituradora metálica
Not for me
Sounded like a jazz band falling down the stairs.
Heard it before?: No Enjoy it?: Unless it’s in the ambience to fill silence I just don’t care for jazz so no Favourite song: Didn’t have one
"The album itself approaches free jazz from the perspective of hardcore punk, particularly taking note of the contemporary innovations of thrashcore and grindcore." aka a bloody racket.
This was really uncomfortable to listen to. Feels like an "emperor has no clothes situation" so kudos to Zorn for getting away with it but it's a big "no thanks" from me. To make things worse I just listened to a Jimmy Smith album so my jazz expectations were too high for this noise. I am having a medium good time trying to imagine someone who actually likes this album and is trying to tell me how their favorite song goes. I can picture the panic in their eyes as they let out their third squeal in ten seconds and realize exactly how untenable their position is.
Doesn't exist on Apple Music
The incessant pitch of the alto sax took me back to a time filled with undiagnosed PND - I won't be listening again no matter how talented the musicians
Sounded like if a saxophone played the drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket
This gave me a stroke...
Ghastly.
Really not a fan. Couldn't make it all the way through.
1 star for not being on spotify also FUCK THIS LMAO I LOVE JAZZ BUT THIS IS AN ATROCITY
Can't find this easily on Amazon. I'm not going to spend all day looking. After reading about it, this seems like one of the author's pet albums. I don't care even at all. Would give it 0 if I could.
Not a fan.
I guess it deserves credit for conjuring images of the series I used to read in MAD Magazine. But it sounds like a big jazz band conducted by Animal from The Muppets with Animal playing every instrument. At the same time. Without any overdubbing.
The drums sound like bullets firing out of a sub machine gun and the trumpets sound like finely tuned squeaking dog toys. I couldn’t differentiate the first three tracks from each other I didn’t mind the fourth track until the last minute then the album continues to fuck up for the remaining half an hour. Maybe like two minutes of this sound would’ve worked at the end of some heavy jazz rock album to send the album off on a confusing bang but 41 minutes is painful. Jazz and punk are both at the opposite ends of the musical spectrum really there’s no similarity between the genres so it doesn’t work; but I appreciate the album and the sound it’s trying so hard to achieve not enough to save it from a 1/5 though which completely deserves to be in the notoriously bad bottom 10 albums.
This is the sound the world makes around me when I have an enormous hangover.
Noise ?
Yeah, this ain't it, chief.
kansikin jo kertoo, että saksofonimelujazzia. ei toimi mulle.
Tässä on yksi hyvä puoli: rummut eivät swengaa, minkä takia musiikki ei varsinaisesti ärsytä. Itseasiassa ne hakkaavat melkein kuin hardcoressa. Toisaalta torvet kuulostavat erehtymättömästi avant-garde jazzilta, mikä on huono homma. Yhden hitaamman, blues-pohjaisen biisin melkein ymmärsin, koska sen pieni koukkaus formalismiin teki tämän musiikin ylemmyydentuntoisesta ironiasta hetkellisesti lähestyttävämpää. Ansaitsisi ehkä plussan ykkösen perään.
First track - is nuts Second track - is also nuts
I hate jazz music
This album is TERRIBLE!!! I personally enjoy listening to most forms of jazz, but free jazz is where I draw the line. The only interesting thing about this album is the cover art.
This was a violent assault of unending frantic insane noise. 2 drummers and 2 saxophones competing to be heard over each other. Making it through this was a miracle, though there was a slight tuneful reprieve around 24 minutes.
Fuck off John Zorn. It's not big and it's not clever.
More noise than music for my taste.
Couldn’t listen to it as it is not on Spotify
Wow. It's a blend of free jazz and hardcore punk. It's very original, very creative, quite an interesting idea and not badly executed. And I absolutely hate it.
Can’t believe this made the top 1001 list. Top worse albums of all time maybe.
This is one of the lowest rated albums on the list and rightly so. Usually with an album like this I’d admire it’s uniqueness and experimentation but about 10 minutes in I just got a headache. Frantically playing the saxophone and drums is not enjoyable free jazz. Also with Otis blue I got a lot of shit wrong in my notes so: satisfaction was a cover of the stones, respect was another interesting track, and it’s just wonderful world not the Louis Armstrong song
This is wild... its not good, but its a hell of an experience
What the fuck is this garbage? Top 1001? No chance
Shite
lo-fi death jazz beats to study/relax to
Trumpet-jazz-noisecore bullshit
Brexit in audio form. Rating: 1/5 Playlist track: [None - not on Spotify (thank goodness)] Date listened: 03/05/22
Really annoying
This is the first album that I found legitimately difficult to get through. I don't know enough about jazz to know why this is important or good. Frankly it just sounded like discordant, unpleasant noise and I would not care if I never listened to any of these songs again. 1 star, solidly the worst album we have listened to, and it would take something truly horrific to unseat this. Zorn should have stuck to coming up with lemmas.
Sad to say this one was really, *really* not my cup of tea. I would like at some point to listen to and learn more about jazz, as I think it's a diverse genre with a lot of cool music from the very little I've been exposed to. BUT this album really threw me into the deep end and then proceeded to drown me in the deep end. Near the end sometimes there was a melody I could grasp onto, but it wasn't enough. Maybe if I knew a lot more about jazz I could appreciate this, but I right now I can't.
Very fast and chaotic start to an album. Tough to follow and a bit tiring to keep up with and listen. Difficult to enjoy listening to this.
No gusta
This is not at all my cup of tea, sounds like the stuff pretentious jazz-heads pretend to like because they think it'll make them cool. It's pretty much just unintelligible nose. And don't get me wrong, I love some good free jazz or industrial noise, but it's gotta have soul, and that's not coming through for me here. On the positive side, the recording is pretty cool - drums are super full and deep, and I like how there's a different sax squealing in each of the stereo channels. Overall though, the original arrangements from Coleman are much better, I think I'll stick with those.
Chciałbym serdecznie Panu Zornowi podziękować za podwaliny pod popularyzację hardcore'u. Jestem pewien, że świetnie to brzmiało zagrane na żywo, a artyści dali z siebie na scenie wszystko. Muzykę traktuję jako sztukę użytkową i tak też rozpatruje te albumy - ten się nie nadaje do słuchania w żadnej sytuacji, jaką byłbym w stanie wymyślić. Na płycie to po prostu nie brzmi. Earrape - Monsters Inc. ma bardzo podobny zamysł, a słucha się tego o wiele lepiej mimo tragicznej jakości. Dziękuję za ciekawostkę.
Przesłuchałem zarówno aranżacje pana Zorna jak i oryginalne utwory i nie ma porównania. Spy vs spy jest przesytem instrumentów, tempa i złożoności. > John, jak dużo chcesz perkusji? > Tak. Nie jest to zdecydowanie album do posłuchania przy kominku i lampce wina, a bardziej pasuje na scenie trash metalowej.
Najgorszy album jakiego słuchałem w życiu. Lubię hardkorowe rzeczy muzycznie z różnych gatunków. Nie chodzi mi nawet o brak melodii, tylko o brak jakiegokolwiek konceptu za tym idącego. To nie jest jakieś świadome łamanie zasad muzycznych, oni dmuchają w trąbki i trąbki pierdzą. Nie mogę oprzeć się wrażeniu, że wrzucenie tego do tego challenge'u przez autora to łechtanie swojego ego "hehe, ludzie nie rozumiejo, a to taki album cudny". No właśnie rozumiem - nie mam nic do tego że komuś się podoba. Ale mam coś do tego, że ten album na liście jest, mimo że to lista albumów z muzyki popularnej, a tego nawet nie ma na streamingach. Obecność tego albumu w tym wyzwaniu to splunięcie w mordę wszystkim cudownym albumom, których tu nie ma.
Nope. Now I have a headache.
Nope. Big nope. That's worse than terrible. Does he actually make a living from this crap?
This site needs an option for zero, or negative stars. So somebody recorded my middle school band, while we were warming up, and decided to release it as an avant grade album of jazz fusion's version of speed metal. This crap is the musical equivalent of a root canal being performed without any anesthetic.
Free demais pra mim esse jazz
Jazz
Not as abrasive as others have made out, but still a tough listen. There's probably something clever and meaningful in amongst the chaos, but I'll be damned if I'm going to try and find it.
What is this?!
Rather annoying free jazz.
Is this album a joke? Its just jazz noise
Awful
Couldn't do it. Holy fuck. I was asked to turn it off by Mel which really was the only small push I needed.
Nope. I mean, I realize there's and "art" to this and probably some transcendental poetic meaning to it all - but it's lost on me.
This album is utterly bizarre and could be effectively used as an instrument of torture. It's interpretations of old free jazz music but played much faster and less competently. This is album #73 and it's the first one I haven't been able to finish.
This was awful
This is like listening to one’s brain deconstruct.
Spotify couldn't play this album for me, glanced over it on YouTube but what the hell was this supposed to be?? Terrible, messy and just plain grating to listen to.
I’d rather give this 0 stars. Discordant noise.
I really didn't want to pile on by adding another 1 star rating, truly, I didn't. I read through the positive reviews hoping to hear it through their ears. Alas. Technically, what the band was able to accomplish together is impressive as hell. But my average daily anxiety is high enough as it is. It's too much, man. It's too much.
unable to locate
Na
Noise. No better than trashy garage rock or punk. No excuse for it just because it’s rooted in jazz. It is not a pleasant listening experience.
Awful, like having a class of pre teen music students play whatever they'd like all at the same time
Not on Spotify
Crap
What a fucking din
No songs available on spotify
Sorry but how does this album belong to this list?! It is nothing but noise.
1 point for just not existing on Spotify and having cool album cover
Not good
Not available for me on Spotify. From what I listened to of it on YouTube, this isn't for me. I'm not sure who it even is for. Literally just a wall of sound.
I like Jazz but this was too off the wall. 3/10.
is it even music at this point
Wow. Pain
This album was not on Spotify so I didn’t listen to the whole thing but I’ve heard enough to know this is not for me
What on earth is improvised music
This was the music they used to torture the branch dividians I assume.
I didn’t know saxophones could have aneurysms.
Improv jazz? Just noise, couldn't even make it through the whole album
Just too freestyle for me unfortunately
Angry jazz...hated it
Could barely make it beyond the first track. Terrible.
Definitely not for me! How can they put this shite on the list and miss off Blind Faith, and HOTH and Presence?
1/5 ouch! no way josé!
Just no
Nog maar drie nummers ver en ik ben het al beu.
To many sounds in the music on the album and wasnt a big fan
Just frenetic jazz ! I’m afraid I can’t even be bothered to listen to that racket again ! *
no
Nope
Cacophony of sound
First, the important business: Spotify can dine on a bowl of fat ones for not letting you play albums (even shuffled!) on the free version of the mobile app. Instead, you must listen with the other artist's stuff shuffled into your shuffled album. Google confirms this is a conscious choice to be insufferable. BIOYA. Second, the allegedly important business: this album. I feel like I'm being run over by a gaggle of saxophonists. This is jazz for crackheads. I feel like I'm in a manic montage in a Tom and Jerry cartoon being artfully brutalized in comic ways. These drums are a Stone Cold Stunner ad nauseam ad infinitum and my eardrums are the Rock bouncing around everywhere. I am far too besieged to score it highly yet far too amused to score it TOO lowly. Too, by way of its homophone two, is the operative word. An album I NEED to hear? In the immortal words of Squidward: "I didn't need to see that." 2/10
I was today years old when I discovered that Free Jazz is a thing and today years old when I discovered that I am not a fan.
Pretty much hated it. Jazz kinda stinks.
Way too intense jazz. Pretty much just noise and not music. Tough to listen to
Chinguen a su madre.
...Todo el maldito disco suena como si estuvieras viendo "Saturday Night Live" y estuvieran por irse a comerciales... he dicho
Free Jazz is not my thing. But at least I got to know the term Free Jazz. But luckily there were some not that extreme Free Jazz song on there. Spotify did not work for me on this Album so I had to turn to YouTube.
Hated this, I like jazz but i don't like the discordant clashing jazz i just don't find it pleasant.
Not on Spotify