Reviews (page 8 of 8)
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