Reviews (page 5 of 7)
it was weird. It just seemed like random instruments and sounds.
Not bad, but I wouldn't choose to listen to it again
Considering it mostly sounded like a stoner playing bongos over a ZX Spectrum loading noise, I didn't entirely hate that
This is not the welcome back I was hoping for after a lengthy pause from this list (should have come back for Elvis Costello). It’s aggravating music, but I don’t entirely hate it. The songs have a form; they’re not pure chaos. There are detectable melodies and rhythmic patterns, making each song feel distinct. Not my bag at all, but it’s sorta interesting. 2.6
I knew Thom Yorke liked this band, and I get why. I'd seen positive things written about They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top, Drum's Not Dead, and the Liars self-titled record, and I've listened to and mostly enjoyed those records. This seems like an odd record to have chosen from that bunch, as it's a huge departure from the wild dance-punk vibe of "Plaster Casts Of Everything" or deep synth journeys like "It Fit When I Was A Kid." Some folks will listen to Fats Domino or Little Richard and just not be able to get past the sounds and songs that, fifty years earlier, were a huge inspiration to the timeless music of The Rolling Stones or The Beatles, or whoever. That is what this record is now. Maybe it inspired others and spurred on their greatness, but what is great and enduring about They Were Wrong, So We Drowned as an album in itself will probably be lost on most people. I'm one of those people. Would I rather listen to this than Vanessa Carlton? Yes. Will I listen to it again? No.
A supposed concept album based on some German witch trials that I can't be bothered to look up. More heavily focused on tribal beats than anything and it's all a bit meh - but it's trying so hard not to be. The song titles are all ace though so fair play. Best Tracks: There's Always Room on the Broom; We Fenced Other Gardens with the Bones of Our Own; Flow My Tears the Spider Said
meh
And now for something completely different...
couple good songs but most were a skip. i appreciate and respect that it was an experimental project
This one just didn’t click for me, feels a bit all over the place.
eh... not feeling this one too much. distorted, painful... and yep, pretty noisy noise rock. it feels like your ears are scrubbed with a cheese grater. there's the select few tracks that are quieter, but it's just so... wow. wow. there's only so much i can say about a song that goes "#_($+$+_(_+__-+$+::++)]]]BLOODBLOODBLOOD+&+_4++!!-_" some of the beats are creative i'll admit!
Terrible start but tolerable later on and even some good bits. 2.5 stars.
They got me with the album cover. They got me with the album name. I was excited already but the music didn't get me.
I heard of this band when a fellow stereo brewey patron brought in their 'Mess' album. I missed the live playing but looked it up and thought it was descent. Liars takes annoying sounds on their own and makes them somewhat tolerable in song. A lot of noise and experimentation that just doesn't completely land with me on this album. Kinda like a bad, weirder version of radiohead.
A very mixed collection a weird noise coupled with bizarre mostly dumb lyrics. Every now and then something comes up that might pique your interest but most of the time its just a bunch of experimental nonsense. It's not the worst thing on this list but there isn't much I want to spend any time with. 1.70 stars
thank goodness, some noise rock that doesn't make my ears bleed. noise rock tends to make sound for the sake of making sound instead of using any creativity. but somehow, liars aren't your typical noise music and created their music with a sense of purpose. the connectivity were amusing. the final song, "flow my tears the spider said," sounds like a funeral hymn. the vocals, however, aren't good or desirable. thus, we are squarely in the 2 range.
I love the band name. I love the album name. I love the song titles. I love the overarching witchcraft theme and concept surrounding the album. But I didn't love much else. As far as noise rock on this project goes, this was more interesting than most noise rock and some parts of it were more listenable for sure. Overall, it was still pretty difficult to get through.
Not my favorite but once I read the names of songs & listened a second time I could picture it better. It doesn’t give a good first impression.
Really discordant. Definitely not my thing.
oh boi wild
Kind of a "music is dying" sort of sound. Almost sounds like how the cover looks, like fabric that is slowly decomposing. Wasn't a fan.
I get that it’s rock, and I get that it’s noise. But I don’t get noise rock. Pass.
Definitely one of more challenging albums I've heard yet from this list. While I enjoy dynamic and busy songs, and I love the dark lyrical content, I probably won't listen to this one again. I appreciate its artistry but I don't particularly enjoy it.
I gave this album a 2 since it was creepy, and I enjoyed that, but the music itself is terrible.
Not great
For those complaining that it shouldn’t be in the book - it has been removed in the newer editions.
This is some strange techno goth rock shit.
Avant gardea, mutta tämä ei toisaalta ole ihan niin hirveää. Mutta ei sillein mitään kauhean hyvää kuunneltavaakaan. Rockia ja elektronisuutta. Ei oikein mitään kohokohtia
xrazy
2.5
I love Liars, but I stay away from their early stuff. I've never been into this album. I recommend checking out any of their albums from their 2007 self-titled album onwards. I appreciate attempts to do something different, but this isn't an album I plan on re-visiting. It's noisy. It's generally unpleasant and not particularly musical.
I did not care for this.
The sort of album I might make if I didn't know I shouldn't.
Noisy, abrasive and dark, sometimes challenging on the ears. I usually want to give the benefit of the doubt to the albums that have ended up at the bottom of the global stats, because many of them are pretty innovative. I've heard worse, but honestly, I mostly found this album to be pretty boring and not a fun listen at all. The concept should have made this way more compelling than it ended up being. Liars may have mostly accomplished what they wanted through the music, but the vocals and the lyrics make it all fall pretty flat Fave Songs: Steam Rose from the Lifeless Cloak, They Don't Want Your Corn, They Want Your Kids, We Fenced Other Gardens with the Bones of Our Own
didn’t really enjoy any of this but it was cool enough that it deserves 2 stars
I kinda want to make this my first 1, but I'm sure it has redeeming qualities. My hopes were kind of dashed when I saw "noise rock" 2
Does this qualify as a noise album? I didn’t mind it but the atmospheric bits like the sounds of writing or birds didn’t do much for me. Not bad (2.5/5)
Some brave choices were made here. This is one of those, how did this get pulled from the sea of other musicians to be made and shared and added to "best of" lists, kind of albums. That is not a diss. I listen to a lot of abstract recordings. Some of them are fascinating. Depending on what you like, you will either endure and look for the moments and enjoy them or you will determine this is just a mosh of noise. I like the title of the album and from that, I imagined something different. Strap in and give it a listen. At least you can then say you've heard it.
Interesting...
Very strange album. Moderately interesting at least. Organized noise. There won’t be many (if any) repeat listenings.
While not as dreadful as I was led to believe I also didn’t enjoy listening to this. Occasionally I found something musically interesting. But that was soon followed up by annoying noises. 2/5
More dissonant, noisy, and experimental than in my usual listening queue, so always good for me to branch out. Doubt I'd return to it, but I can appreciate what they were going for here.
Ok the first song was just painful but I was determined to give it a fair chance and it became more listenable as time went on but I cannot say I enjoyed it.
Tough listen. Points for ambition I can see what is being attempted here and sometimes it almost hits. 3/10
I guess the good thing about this list is that it exposes you to things that you don't come across organically. Then I experienced Liars, a band without any recognition or inclination of being included on this list for any sober reason. "From Wikipedia: Liars is an Australian-American experimental rock band formed in Brooklyn, New York, in 2000." I can envision the band hammering out they lyrics to this album on their second hand typewriters in a new Brooklyn coffee shop that was recently a bodega/night club for recently divorced moms from Long Island. I get why albums like this are included on the list, but what I don't get is why the authors continually fail to include the artists that create the reason for the album on the list instead of the substitute garbage that suits their biases. This album occupies an spot that belongs to Beck since it is essentially a Beck rip off.
Eeee. Noise rock is the perfect descriptor for this total miss. Nothing here feels…coherent. It’s all a mess. While listening I really did try to focus on what was being done but in the end I just felt stupid for trying.
Some tracks were ok but a lot of it was random noise to me.
2.7 . Noise rock
Rare shit met af en toe wel ineens iets tofs! Dit soort opbeurende teksten weet ik ook altijd wel te waarderen: Fly Fly, the devil's in your eye, shoot shoot! We're doomed We're doomed!
Not as bad as I expected given the “Noise Rock” label and the other reviews. I appreciate hearing something unique in the sea of bland rock albums on this list.
Ja vaag
La voluntat d'epatar a la música ha estat allà gairebé des del començament, quan Captain Beefheart i acòlits produïen discos gairebé infumables. Décades més tard, enmig dels 00s, aquests angelins van tenir el seu moment de glòria gràcies sobretot a aquest segon treball. Cal reconèixer que dins tota la colla de bandes insoportables que tracten de fer-se notar a través de suposada música experimental, que en realitat és poc més que soroll, els temes de Liars sí contenen en ocasions alguns moments a rescatar. A més, mèrit també pels imaginatius títols de les cançons
Not my style.
Almost unlistenable noise for the most part, absolutely unworthy of this list. [0081/1001]
Noise rock. Blah blah. At least make it entertaining
Básicamente ruido
2 clangy, atonal stars.
The harsh computer tones on There's Always Room On The Broom are really harsh. Would not recommend this album if you have a migraine. We Fenced Out Other Gardens With Bones Of Our Own is cool creepy chapel music. A real weird listen that I didn't quite grasp though Flow My Tears, the Spider Said I think is approaching something I could grasp. Too bad its at the end of the album.
A few nice tracks, but this was more misses than hits for me. I like me some noise rock but this just did not get it right to my ears.
Just noise for the sake of noise, no substance.
Me pareció intrigante, buena música de compañía para otra actividad (escribir, en mi caso). No creo que lo fuera a escuchar nuevamente, por eso el rate, pero interesante ejercicio de escucha algo distinto
I came in with zero expectations having never heard of the artist or album. I did not enjoy this very much. Some parts were outright unlistenable and the rest just did not do anything for me.
Why is this album included. Didn't chart, not popular, not good. No signs of being a cult classic.
I wasn't in the mood for this
A more listenable noise-rock album than some of the others I've head on this list. This one was not as loud and obnoxious and it did have rhythm and lyrics I could understand. So, it has that going for it. It isn't horrible.... 2.5
There's a reason this sat not listened to for months. Gave the first song a try and didn't care for it. 2/5
Dit is hem echt niet voor mij, heb hem eerder stopgezet want voelde me eigenlijk heel boos(??)
Not unlistenable but this will almost definitely be the only time I listen to this.
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned is the second album by Australian-American noise rock band Liars. This album was more experimental than their post-punk debut album, and is a loose concept album about witchcraft on a mountain in Germany with a tribal sound. The album performed decently well critically and is commended for its unique sound. I'm torn between liking this album and hating it. Some tracks were good, while others droned on with annoying sounds. It is noise rock, but some of the music was a little more noise than rock. Overall, it's an interesting piece of music history.
Not a fan, or maybe just not in the right mood.
Mäh
Didn't give it a full chance, but what I did listen to was not my cup of tea.
Songs: Read the book that wrote itself, Flow my tears the spider said
Initially, this album sounded quite interesting, but it got a little on my nerves during the second listen. Experimentation for experimentation's sake and very little musical enjoyment.
It doesn't suck completely.
Used to love that first song back when I was a yoof, but I found the rest of the album a bit too murky and unmemorable
weird UUCK
Really, guys? Why is this on here? I mean, I like some ‘experimental’ stuff such as Radiohead’s later stuff/Thom Yorke/Atoms for Peace, and I can see bits of them in this. Also early PJ Harvey. And the premise about the witches is fun. And some tracks were listenable. You know it’s not great though when you think to yourself ‘ooh this is a bit better’ and then realise that the album has finished and the station has moved on to something else Note to self: you have to listen to them all, all the way through, because that’s the game 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
This seems like a pretty obvious shift in perspective, but i don't think i consciously thought this is more of an "art piece" than "music". This is non-traditional and i don't know any who would have bought this album and just gets in a mood to listen to this music. However, if you think of this as a movie, or piece of art, you can "experience" it... and at that point you can better accept it's noisy and unsettling delivery. It is still hard to appreciate the overall work if i engage it with a musical hat on... a very challenging listen. Still, i will grant a second star because of how it has changed my perspective on having to engage actively with an album as a piece of art.
Never optimistic with the label Noise Rock and sure enough I hated almost all of this. Struck me as reaching towards the wierdness of The Residents but nowhere near as clever or artful. At the end it did resolve into something tolerable but not enough to redeem it for me.
It's not that bad. I understand why people might hate it, but I also understand why people could like it. I liked the singer's voice and some of the music had an interesting sound, but it's not exactly something I want to listen to again. I think my favourite song was They Don't Want Your Corn - They Want Your Kids, but it was a bit hard to differentiate the songs for me.
My first impression left me with a hard NO on this one. However, I got interrupted and had to continue my listening task later. When I returned, I had lost my place...so I started over. My attitude changed a bit. There ended up being some moments that I found enjoyable. This enjoyment was balanced with some moments that would likely have me leaving the room if someone put this on at a party. So, overall, it is an album of extremes for me.
Noise rock, dance-punk. Bastante rollo.
Surprisingly subdued for something like this. Dancey in spots, but mostly meanders and only has flashes of anything interesting. Favorite track: "They Don't Want Your Corn, They Want Your Children"
Usually up for a bit of experimental but this was curiously flat
I think I would’ve appreciated a lot of this stuff a year and a half ago, when I was really into experimental stuff. I just find it a little bit too nebulous and esoteric for me now, I don't have anything against it just not for me now
Some good tunes buried among the gravelly arthouse flatulence.
There's something here I could get into but the majority was just offputting.
A tech-ey musical element with nonsensical lyrics. Just not my thing. Had some good rhythm which I didn't dislike.
TROP DÉPRESSIF
Personne n'a jamais écouté ça Robert il faut que tu te réveilles.
A ne manquer sous aucun pretexte avant de mourir.
Weird ass album. I didn't hate it, but for the most it didn't click with me. I don't get it, I guess. 2.49/5
1.5/5
Pants on fire.
when your fanfic is crappy creepypasta, you're doing it wrong
This album had such an incredible amount of original experimentation that a listener should never feel bored, but here I am. 2/5
Did not really get into the lofi noise vibe of it right now
Interesting, kind of rubbed me the wrong way I guess. Disappointing for me, as I liked some content but not some creative choices that they made. Hold Hands and it will Happen Anyway was my least favourite track.
Entiendo que puede estar bueno pero creo que no estaba en el mood para escuchar tan random jeje me parecieron muy repetitivos y poco armoniosos los ritmos de las canciones.
I really like experimental stuff but it has to be good. This just isn't. It tries with eerie noises and dark sounds but it only works on the closing track wich is the only one that I actually liked. The bird sounds and the quieter instrumentation was actually quite good... The rest is either terrible, annoying, bland or a combination of all. The vocals were pretty bad too and most songs would have been better as an instrumental 2/5
Noise album with not-so-great voice. It was ok :)
I'm still unsure if I liked this album or not. In case of doubt, let's say I did not.
Not for me
Well at least this band has an original sound. They’re hard to categorize, sorta experimental industrial post punk. Although they have some intriguing beats and rhythms their album isn’t quite fully fleshed out, but they do have potential.
2-
Wh..what
The concept behind this album, exploring the legends of the Brocken Witch, is more interesting than the album itself. Often it feels as though the band have simply lost track of what they were attempting to say.
Not sure what to make of this one.
It just didn’t go anywhere.
Not my thing.
INT
I should like this album more since I'm into noise/experimental music, but this album wasn't really for me. It's a bit directionless and all over the place. The first half of the album was worse than the second half where there were some better and more interesting songs. 2.5/5
Weird
The distortion and unpleasant noises made me sick
unerträglich
This makes me wish I'd lost the ability to hear.
I'm literally unemployed, I have hours and hours and hours free, and this was still a waste of my time. Sounded like someone trying to flunk their GCSE music.
Helsike vad uselt
Nä
Från noise rock på eftermiddagen till spelmansturne i den åländska skärgården på kvällen. Tror kanske kontrasten sänkte betyget.
Bruh 1/5
Wish these cunts actually drowned
A bandmember typoing a search and that leading to the subject of this album is a better review than I could come up with. This has huge "my friend's band is playing tonight, come check them out" energy.
Er, just no
I had never heard of "noise rock" or indeed The Liars before today. I'm trying to pretend I still haven't. The only redeeming feature of this specific noise collection was the final track. I like to think that this was included as some sort of calming recompense for having endured the preceding weird nonsense.
Dette albumet trenger ingen å høre før man dør.
If you’ve had the misfortune of already getting Duck Stab by The Residents on this list, you’re in for a similar ‘sound’. It’s truly a mess, with a genuinely annoying sound that is difficult to describe. Perhaps an industrial machine breaking down? Fully deserving of its status as one of the lowest rated albums on the list.
Oh dear. As soon as I saw the words ‘noise rock’ and ‘experimental’ I was bracing myself for what was to come, and by and large I pretty much got what I expected (derogatory). I find it hard to believe that anyone would genuinely prefer to listen to this over nearly anything else. Perhaps the one exception is that this strikes me as exactly the sort of album a certain type of person pretends to like so they can come across as smug and superior to the normies who don’t ‘get it’. But I’m with the normies on this one.
I did not like this. How does stuff like this even get a record contract.
great Album. totally did not enyjoy any track but at leas the album cover looks weird
No!!!! Mix the sound of garbage trucks in NYC plus a transistor radio tuned into two different stations at the same time. .0000000000000001
Awful
Wow what a lot of noise. Drowning in it.
Rough. It just sounds like repetitive thumping to me, I can't gleam much out of it at all. I don't mind noise rock -- but when you look at the other noise rock albums on the list, you'll notice that it's actually music.
Never go full retard.
They were wrong
Ah, endlich mal wieder ein Album was Dreck ist
This was shit the first time. I could not make it through the album the second time.
complete shit. garbage album
Сара 1 Марко 1
Look at all the liars who gave this album a five star rating. Favorite Track: "Flow My Tears, The Spider Said".
Pointless.
This came out when I was in college. This is the kind of music my roommate would have tried to convince me was important and amazing if given the proper chance. And most of the time, he was right. But in this entirely theoretical situation, he's wrong. This is bad. There are glimpses of interesting music, but it's lost in the morass of grating noises. Whoever thought this should be included, shame on you. 1/5
Too experimental and nonsensical for me to enjoy it.
electric noise, 2004 -> 1
sample de um reator nuclear a explodir
Noise rock makes me want to jump out of a plane.
Noise. This was dumb.
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned by Liars was an album I knew I would hate as soon as I saw the words “noise rock". Instead of songs, it often sounds like random noise, shouting, strange percussion and unsettling sounds thrown together with very little structure. I understand that this was probably the intention, but it just did absolutely nothing for me. There’s no melody to hold onto, no real hooks and very little musically that made me want to keep listening. Every track felt long, repetitive and exhausting, and by the end I was just waiting for it to finish. It almost feels more like an art installation than an album you’d actually choose to put on and listen to. Favourite tracks: I genuinely couldn’t pick one. Least favourite tracks: Pretty much all of them blended into one difficult listen. Album artwork: Awful album cover, although it probably matches the sound of the album quite well.
What the freak did I just listen to??? Maybe the weirdest album yet. I don't know if that was music or just a much of repeating sounds.
Pure garbage
Man! Not the worse one so far but it sure did suck!
Every bit as dumb as Throbbing Gristle, but lacking the accidental single good song Throbbing Gristle managed. Complete waste of time.
no no absolutely not
OMG no .... why would anyone listen to this ....
que edta basura ansoluta e innescuchable repugnante no se q es esto, l gante hace mejor musica inaginate
Awful noise. Gave up after 3 songs. How does this deserve to have as recording contract, much less be on this list.
Laweit
what the fuck
Uhhhh it’s interesting for sure, but like, music should be fun to listen to no? Part of me wants to give it 2 stars because I think some tracks are neat, but I feel that I cannot. Maybe I’ll do a deep dive into noise music one day and come back with a newfound appreciation. 1.5/5
To quote Butthead: This sucks more than anything that has sucked before.
I just don't get noise. It takes me a lot of effort to see some kind of beauty - there definitely is some, but not for me, I guess.
Ahhh, music as art project. And sixth-form art project at the most generous. Such cacophonous bollocks really needs to have a warning label, this is painful to the ears. At only 41 minutes you'd think it was mercifully short, but no, at 41 seconds this would still be a tough listen.
It's a bit silly for a minute, then just dumb and annoying.
Waiter! Waiter! More experimental microtonal garage punk slop please!
300 albums in and this is one of the first ones I had to skip through every track.
Uninspired
straight ass
Just when is it people are sitting down and thinking "you know what I feel like listening to? Some pretentious kids saying blood over some sound effects. Yeah, that'll set the mood." I've heard worse, but it's just such a big "why." Why did they make it. Why would anyone want to listen to it. Why should I care. Why does this album exist and why is it on the list
Holy fuck this thing should have been shot in the fucking face and buried in a ditch so deep even the molemen wouldn't be able to find it. This has got to be the worst fucking thing I've ever forced myself to listen to in my fucking life. I cannot believe anyone would think this was something anyone other than the worst terrorist or pedophile you could find should be forced to endure. If it's something to listen to before regular people die it should be kept for the end so that on your deathbed you can force your way through it and use it as a reminder that you're over the bullshit fucking morons you've dealt with in life and really are ready to let go, if just so you never have to endure this level of disgusting fucking bullshit again.
Awful. Not My Taste At All.
Let's play a game. Let's try to make an album not intended for anyone else than ourselves. Just create a lot of random sounds but with an underlying beat. Then on some songs someone will make some noise or sing a bit. What a success, they won the game. The only good about this album is that it is different to so many mediocre albums here on this list. At least it's different, so I guess interesting. But the music is not for me.
:|
Pretty impressive. I listened to the entire album and I hated every song.
4/9 Garbage
Honnêtement un des albums les plus chiant que j'ai écouté. Le pire c'est que dans ce genre de moment j'ai quelque chose à dire sur le projet, au moins pour en faire la critique, même si elle est mauvaise. Mais là, rien du tout. Le projet était juste long et vide, avec l'impression d'avoir traversé une jungle pendant 30min.
Wow that fuckin sucked. That was just noise
Noise but not in a good way
Probablemente el disco más difícil de escuchar de los que llevo hasta ahora.
"Noise" rock has never felt like such an adequate description of something....
A very gritty sound. I can appreciate how this would appeal to some people, but this just clashed too hard for me to actually be something I'd want to listen to regularly. "Hold Hands and It Will Happen Anyway" kind of exemplifies it for me. Ending with a long outro soundscape of bird noises was easily my favorite part.
Deliberately didn't listen to them when they were hyped, for contrarian reasons. Feels very satisfying to be completely vindicated about my ignorance. There are loads of great noisy, dissonant, arty albums out there, but this is not one of them.
What, and I cannot stress this enough, in THE FUCK is this weird ass shit? Quickest 1 star I ever heard in my life m.
Utterly appalling. I am a fair man and will continue to give every album on this list a full listen. However, I was unable to manage this one in one sitting. It felt like a junior school music project completed by children who could not play any instruments and relied upon a cacophony of noises stored within the Yamaha keyboard settings. Could not give this few enough stars. Utter tripe!
“Experimental noise album”
One of those that I just don’t get or enjoy
Blind album and artist. Ear destruction without the loud volume. Screech and clicking and annoying sounds. Point for creativity fron where those aounds came from, but negative points for everything else. I may look into the creepypasta though at some point.
Broken Witch - 2/10. I don't like it. Steam Rose from the Lifeless Cloak - 3/10. Dissonant and unpleasant. There's Always Room on the Broom - 2/10. Ugh. If You're a Wizard then Why do You Wear Glasses? - 2/10. Ick. We Fenced Other Gardens with the Bones of Our Own - 3/10. Less unpleasant than most on this album. They Don't Want Your Corn, They Want Your Kids - 1/10. Deeply unpleasant. Read the Book that Wrote Itself - 4/10. Just noise. Hold Hands and it Will Happen Anyway - 2/10. Dissonant noise. They Took 14 for the Rest of Our Lives - 2/10. Ugh. Flow My Tears the Spider Said - 3/10. Ehhh. Overall Rating - 1.20/5 (2.40/10). This feels like Experimental Period Tom Waits, but not as clever.
Holy experimental industrial rave, Batman! This album is not for introductory music students. Or anyone else, if I’m being honest. This is the exact kind of album I think of when I rant against avant garde music. I get that artists like to push the boundaries, but there’s a point where pushing the boundaries goes from endearing to straight up assault. I did not enjoy any moment of this album. I couldn’t even tell what they were TRYING to do half the time. And the other half, I disliked. With every album we’ve listened to, I always try to ask myself “What is there to learn here? How might this have helped to shape music?” The answers I came to with this album is “not much” and “hopefully not at all”. This was a coke head’s fever dream that he thought would resonate with someone else. Instead, he’s just Oren from Parks and Rec. A forgettable, creepy weirdo whose art is just shocking and not nearly as deep as he thinks it is.
Previously unknown. Big ol' nope.
Definitely not my style. Noise and very little musical content. Could not hear all of it
There were many challenges listening to this album. The first, making it through the first song. The second, listening to the whole record without skipping tracks and third, trying to restrain myself from writing anything too harsh I might regret later. I completed the challenges of the first two and harsh would be a polite way to describe this mess. Enjoying music shouldn't be this hard. I'll warn you, for me this is a P.O.S of an album that had me stunned and angered enough to laugh, punch the air and wonder what the f*ck that was. They were NOT wrong! This is a joke, right?
Impressively bad
Terrible.
I have no idea what this was. I didn’t like it at all.
Really wanted to like this - but was a struggle.
Eksperimentell rock. Ikke så mye annet å si, enn at dette er RART. Top 3: Broken Witch, There's Always Room on the Broom, They Don't Want Your Corn, They Want Your Kids
No no no
Was soll der Krach?
Boah, es ist unerträglich. Ich bin 4 min ins Album und habe 5 Std. (ok, auf der Arbeit) gebraucht, um weiterzuhören. Ich würde mir am liebsten beide Ohren ausreißen und wegschmeißen. Wenn ich könnte, würde ich 0 Sterne vergeben. 1 Stern für die Nicht-Allzu-Länge des Albums (was man von den Liedern nicht behaupten kann). #InternetRezensionen
Uiuiuiuiui
I can enjoy abrasive music. I can enjoy experimental music. I am open minded. But this is shit.
WTF is happening here? I'll tell you... They were wrong, putting this album on the list. Unlistenable! Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ Revisit ❌️ Dreadful ★☆☆☆☆ (2/10) Total reviewed : 255 Already owned : 59 Purchased : 14 To buy list : 2 Nope : 180
To much experimental
Got to the start of song 4 before I gave up. Previously I'd endured "There's Always Room on the Broom" which is basically 3 minutes of the noises a dial-up modem used to make. If anyone in the world says they enjoy listening to "Steam Rose From the Lifeless Cloak" they're a liar. Or a Liar.
You know how in your email you have Junk or Spam folder. This album is the equivalent of what goes into that box. It should be ignored right upon arrival. 1 star, only because I can’t give it zero.
Ei sovi omaan makuun.
Olipas aikamoista. Metelirokkia. Nevahöödi, ja ois melkein saanutkin jäädä nevahöödiksi. Mutta musiikillinen sivistykseni on taas vähän kasvanut.
Didn't get it
I don’t hate any one track on this album all that much, I even kinda liked the one with all the meowing, but it’s the cumulative effect of listening to all them in a row that really gets to me. It’s like if you have to talk to a really pretentious fuck at a party for ten minutes it’s kind of amusing, but if you spend your entire night with him it’s going to ruin it.
Hannah, I hate the whole thing, it’s too noisy and experimental for me, I guess that’s the title of the genre. Couldn’t finish one song.
This caused me serious pain.
2/10
My life was not complete until I heard this album. And guess what - it's still not complete, cuz this album added nothing to my life. Ba-dum-bum! (which I just saw is apparently sometimes written ba-dum-tss! - which maybe makes better onomatopoetic sense). But, anyway, I guess on an *intellectual* level I can kind of appreciate what (maybe) they were going for here, I just don't have any interest in hearing this again. It's kind of like the old "Gong Show" on tv, where you'd kind of get the feeling that the really bad acts kind of *expected* - no, WANTED - to be gonged off the stage. Happy to oblige! Might (if it were an option) have given 'em 1.5 for, err, novelty and derring-do. But -- too bad! -- not an option: 1 star.
1* is too high. Wouldn't even class this as music. Fucking dreadful.
What the fuck was even this Just noise Absolute garbage 0/5
Painful!
BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD
Did not like this. A few notes over some noise and some off key singing.
As someone who appreciates good noise rock, this sucks.
I gave this a good 10 minutes; life's too short and I have stuff I want to listen to that won't upset my dog and give me a headache.
1/5 - Hard pass. Please tell me how I'm not enlightened enough to see the genius here.
Once I read noise rock band in the album summary my face squirmed…. I tried, I really did but it just did nothing for me unfortunately and I couldn’t get through the whole album. Onto the next..
This gave me a headache
I can't think what mood or environment I would need to be in to want to listen to this again, but I'm glad I did.
This is one of the stranger albums on the list. Sure it was interesting, but that doesn't mean I liked it.
You trynna waste my time? This feels like a fever dream Maybe I am boring and mainstream but I dont want none of this garbage.. So today I learned about this new genre called noise rock and also about disliking it. Anyway y'all I am proud of you for doing this challenge it aint easy-
This is not for me. Pointless meandering garbage.
Liars! They lied about this being one of the top 1,000,001 albums ever.
more experimental than my tastes. Definitely something that grabs your attention and refuses to loosen the grip
To be honest I had it on in the background and I thought construction was on outside - not very good and I didn’t enjoy it all when I actually sat and listened to it
Did not enjoy this. Ears are bleeding. Embarrassed to even try and play this in public.
This album was a bunch of HOT GARBAGE!!! I'm a pretty open guy when it comes to music and I don't mind an adventure in sound experimentation and some noise weirdness. But this crap is almost unlistenable. I could barely make it through this. Please don't ever do this to me again!!!!
I can't see why this should be on the list, it's pretty poor stuff.
"They Were Wrong, So We Drowned" simply isn’t to my taste. It is disjointed, abrasive, and brash, featuring a soundscape that is practically devoid of melody. I found it entirely unenjoyable. One star. 237/1001 132/237 albums reviewed were new to me.
Just awful
Oh good grief! What surprises me is that they have produced other albums. Someone must have bought them.
Case of if nothing good to say, don't say anything. Guess it's atmospheric. They do a good job making musically instruments sound like everyday objects. There are better noise rock from before this. I have heard it, moving on. 1.5 Star
Every once in a while, there was something I could pick out that I liked. But, for the vast majority of the album, I was just hoping it would be over.
Mostly just noise and percussion. Very little melodic. I don't get it
Inward‑looking 'art music' that would have been better left in the band's rehearsal room.
Don't get it
Apparently this band was into experimental rock. I think they need more work in the lab. Discordant and weird. Some experiments don’t need to be released to the public.
2 artsy
I wish I'd drowned instead of having to listen to this. What an awful experience.
Pretty weird music. Couldn't get through a lot of songs as they were too annoying
No thank you.
crap, really...
I tend to find noise music annoying.
Tidenes dårligste start på en onsdag! Au i mitt hode
Immediately upon starting the first song I knew I would struggle to get through the album and I was right.
Not for me
Art noise tripe.
Well, there was one song I sort of liked... the rest of it? Terrible. Not the absolute worst album I've heard on here, but it's close.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no! Absolutely, fucking abysmal. It feels like the artist has intentionally tried to make abrasive music. I struggle to believe people can actually enjoy this.
Cult sacrifice music
Noise
I don't want to hate it because I liked the ideas I can hear in the album. However, this is my first noise rock album, and I guess I expected something more extreme, something that would prompt a stronger reaction. But I was simply bored. With other challenging albums in this list I've been able to see the greatness in them despite not having a completely pleasant reaction; but this came out in 2004, so there's no way there haven't been more revolutionary, influential and insteresting noise rock albums. Or maybe I'll eat my words in the future if I ever give this a chance with a different mindset. But for now, I'm giving this a 1/5.
This is a happening. The same way a bowel movement is a happening. I would prefer to listen to neither
Well, thank god I'll never have to listen to that again
This is just obnoxious noise, and I can't stand it. There are other people in my office who commented on how horrendous this was, which was a first, despite having other horrible albums that I've listened to. Bad bad bad. Who thought this was good enough to release? Who thought this was good enough to put on this list? Is the author of the 1001 Albums book in this band?
Really? Somebody made a conscious decision to include THIS particular album on a list of 1001 albums I need to hear? I can't imagine listening to the noises here would have ANY effect on ANYONE's life. Not exactly painful like some of the selections I've heard as I near the halfway mark in this quest. Just largely unpleasant and completely pointless.
Kept waiting for actual music to begin, but track after track was just fucking noise. After 5 tracks of that shit I bailed on it. What crap.
Not my jam
what the fuck have I just listened to
Hmm, what has the generator got for me today? Liars, band from New York, mid-2000s. Never heard of them, let's give it a whirl! Hmm, you say this is not a 2-track bedroom demo? What!? It's actually their second album?!?!? Who the hell wrote these lyrics? Why are they so obsesses with witches?? Why the hell do the drums sound so bad??? Why are they so averse to anything resembling a melody or a tune? Look, I get it, it’s noise rock. But the lyrics are nonsensical shit. The music is not interesting, and a total chore to listen to. I read somewhere that this is apparently one of their worst albums. I hope for their sake that is true
Don't have any desire to come back and listen to one song from this. Just didn't care for it
Just terrible
Ugh
i’ve certainly never heard anything quite like it. i can understand why it would be included in this collection of albums you must listen to because it’s different. i understand that it’s supposed to be uncomfortable, and i think it achieves that to some degree. at the heart of it, i just really do not enjoy it.
Mmm nah bro
This is absolute fucking crap. Should get a 0
Oh, boy, this is truely ugly.
Really not my thing. Quite edgy sound but the vocals are so drab.
It’s just noise to me
Not in my top 1001.
It was wrong
Confused
A reminder that this is not a list of the best albums of all time, just ones that we should hear. I’m always amazed that albums like this not only get made, but that some people do count them as among the best…maybe even their favorite. I do not judge them. There were some almost interesting sounds amongst the noises here.
the first track Sounds like someone who heard Aphex twins for the first time and fails to make a track... Some tracks feel like they are close to sound okey but then falls flat. This is a album full of "wierd for the sake of being wierd" and i have no idea why it's on this list because i never heard of the band.
It's just mindless dross
It sounds like a bunch of tone deaf ding dongs got together and listened to Throbbing Gristle and unironically thought "this is peak", and then tried to emulate it
Ummm... not for me. Total crap.,
J'ai essayé d'apprécier mais je n'y arrive pas !
This was utter trash.
Let's just file this under music to be used in psychological warfare. And by the way, I don't believe in using music as psychological warfare.
not influential to me but I'm sure it's influential to someone. They had a variety of interesting sound bites like the nature recordings throughout flow my tears the spider said.
Was this even an album, of just a couple of guys fucking around with a tape recorder?
While I appreciate the effort to do something different, I didn't care for it
No idea why this is here, terrible
👎🏻
I can appreciate this as art but not something I want to listen to.
Never heard of them or this album, I'm assuming there's a solid reason for that... Gave it a listen, can't pinpoint what kind of music this is but the opener ("Broken Witch") and it's cadence couldn't be more annoying if it tried. This sounds like a lonely guy in his mom's basement recording a plea for help. The incessant monotony of "Steam Rose.." makes one want to leave the room or eat a gun. Wow! I was so turned off I had to read up on them, it's one guy, Angus Andrew, making this nonsense by himself. No song has more than 150K listens, this is OBSCURE stuff. Who recommended this garbage and why?! Possibly the worst album of the 450 I've listened to so far. This feels like we got punked and Andrew somehow hacked into this list and added his album. Crap in its purest form with no redeeming qualities, no hits, no good songs, no musicianship. If you're intro dreary monotony, this one is for you!! 1 star because zero isn't available.
1.0/10 This was horrible for me.. couldn’t get past the 3rd song!
noisy
The entire "band" had to agree to this, somebody agreed that this should be recorded, and they hired a producer/engineer to make it sound their best. Once recorded, this mess was given the green light, artwork was created, and then this was mass produced, and shipped. Think about that. The Emperor isn't wearing any clothes.....and now he's stabbed kebab skewers through his ear drums as well. Zero stars.
Liars. YOU were wearing.
Intentionally grating to the ears. Somewhat experimental but the hypothesis if proven true, turns out to be a failure.
threatening and unpleasant