Reviews (page 6 of 8)
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.
Spooky 🦇
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
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
Too hungover, no.
The first song didn't convince me at all, so was the second one... and so on. Didn't enjoy this one a bit. It ranges from bad to annoying. The names of the songs are somewhat funny
Sorry, another album I couldn't really enjoy. Immersed in something very uncomfortable, waiting for a few waves of something nice that never arrived.
Tää oli aika skeida levy. Aikamoista kakofoniaa. En jaksanut kuunnella kuin puolet ja oli pakko lopettaa...
Wow. This was dreadful. Was this a witchcraft-themed performance or a ritual on some deserted island? Whatever it’s aiming for, it completely misses the mark. It's a mess.
Unique and different does not always mean that it's good. This is absolute garbage and I learned nothing from this experience. Over 100 albums into this, and I pray that I don't have anything worse than this one. Dear God, no.
Random noise generator. 1/5
Not my kind of music at all — so the review score is very subjective.
Just noise
Horrible. Nothing redeeming about this album.
Worst thing I have ever heard
No notes for this one other than… what the fuck was that? I'm going to draw a line under it and assume I'm not edgy enough to get it.
Just because someone has to actually come up with 1001 albums does not mean that just any album should be added
this was pointless noise to me
What the actual F
Nope.
Achieved their aim of making an album nauseating to listen to. Really didn't know what was going on - both ominous and kind of dull at the same time. Not at all for me.
Eksperimentell drit.. nei takk
20 seconds in and I knew it was going to be shit.. I stopped listening after a few songs cause they’re just all equally shit. Somehow manages to be super noisy and annoying but also without any drive or passion behind the music.
did not listen
Not for me mate, no puedo pasar dlel tercer tema
No. Just no. I made it through 3 songs and that was enough. Fuck this noise, the band that made it, and anyone who likes it. I swear, I'm over 10 days running of absolute garbage on this list since my last halfway decent album. 1001 Albums...maybe 25 or so that are worth listening to. I think this whole project is a big fucking joke to see how much of our time they can waste.
Unlistenable
Is this some sort of sick joke?
It's creative but not artistic.
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned is definitely an album that's different from the pack but not in a good way at all. Everything about this album feels like it was written by a 14 year old who just learned about creepypastas (which is technically true seeing as a lot of this album was inspired by the legends of The Brocken) The main issue is that all of these songs lack any real structure and just feel like the band just throwing everything they can at the wall to be weird and hardly any of it working. Even some of the better songs on this album just go on for far longer than they need to with silence or ambient noises that add nothing. It might not be as abrasive as some of the other terrible albums but it is still in that club of terrible albums. Best Song: Flow My Tears The Spider Said Worst Song: Broken Witch
You remember those old DirecTV ads where they talk about how some people like drinking spoiled milk, camping in poison ivy, getting a paper cut or having their arm trapped in a vending machine? Yeah, listening to "They Were Wrong, So We Drowned" is like all of those things. It's brutally awful. If you like sitting in gum or being rammed by a shopping cart, well, maybe you disagree
We know that a list is never an absolute truth and is meant more as an illustrative, dogmatic exercise, but this project often goes far beyond any reasonable limits… for example, highlighting this kind of trash at the expense of so much great music out there. It’s absolutely unbelievable how every single second of this album must have been relevant to a mere handful of people. Lamentable. I still have a year left to finish this, this one must be around number 600, and that really discourages me… this kind of garbage only makes us waste our time.
This pissed me off
Nah
Too noisy. I couldn't make it.
Most of the songs have some annoying three note phrase repeated for forever, but it also feels like it's trying to be artsy and experimental. Whatever it was going for, it failed
с ума можно сойти пока прослушаешь это
# Album Name: They Were Wrong, So We Drowned # Artist: Liars # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: Fuck me dead. Like really. This was absolutely dog shit. I imagine they play this stuff at torture camps. Dreadful. # Top Tunes: # Would I listen to it again? Only if my mother in law was in the same room.
I hated this until I didn’t. By the end maybe a little bit into it. But overall “noise rock” is an apt description and not for me.
Solid 1, pure noise!
Meh
That was bollocks
Bad
For me, if music is described as noise, that’s not a good thing.
Um. Am I about to be interrogated by the Gestapo? If so, I'll tell you anything. Just make it stop.
Why are we here?
Yeah...I don't get it. Made it through 2 tracks.
Uhhh… ———————————— My non-musician scoring system. 5 - Love it. Would play anytime, buy, see live… 4 - Good music. 3 - Average playlist. Depends on time and setting. 2 - I can’t listen to any whole song(skipped ahead on all of them). 1 - No.
Why? Why? WHY? This is the musical equivalent of having a flaming bag of dog shit flung on your porch.
What the fuck was this? 54 minutes of bullshit. No wonder they've got a million albums, anyone can toss this nonsense together. Why is this "alternative' and why is this on a list of albums people should listen to? This isn't creative. This isn't music. There are no hooks, no chorus, it's just ambient fucking noise. Glad I got to "Suggest Less" from the music app. Get this shit the fuck out of my ears. Pointless drivel is what this is.
This album is definitely not for me. I just don't find this style of music to be pleasant at all personally. I won't say it's bad outright because I don't know enough about the genre/message to give an opinion other than I don't like it sound-wise.
This felt like an anxiety attack.
Very much up its own ass and not very good or even amusingly bad. A 1 feels harsh but I really can't think of anything of merit to praise this with
The worst thing any off-genre album can be is boring. Listening to this I wish I'd rated throbbing gristle and kollaps higher, even if they were an unorthodox and at times uncomfortable listen, at least they were doing something interesting. This was a drudge of an album.
Ok. So when you decided to make noise rock, did you intend to make it so that it sounded like someone being water boarded. You’d have to be either comatose or suspended in gel filled matrix pod to not realize how much you will HATE this SHIT. This AWFUL collection of songs made for torture is about as ANNOYING as a restaurant filled with screaming children. I’d blame WITCHCRAFT as to why this exists but do we really want to blame witches with this hellscape of music?
I hate this god awful shit garbage. It was annoying and gives witchcraft a bad name. I would rather listen to 3 hours of shoegaze rock than this terrible mess. I want my 41 minutes back.
Noise rock ain't my bag, baby. Noise for noise sake isn't worth the pile of shit they recorded this on. My brain just isn't wired to understand how this or anything avant-garde is enjoyable. Also, hate, awful, annoying, and witchcraft
I can find something to enjoy in almost anything. This sucks completely, however.
"Stop daddy, stop. That's not even funny. Why would you listen to that". My review was going to be about a New York socialite party, eating fried chicken off naked hobos, while watching artist paint modern art using midgets as paint brushes. Alas my daughter somes it up better.
Not deserving of the 1001 list
Absolutely not my style. Couldn´t finish this record. A firt one for me.
Noise rock. Meh. It faded into the background. If I want music to sound incidental I will just listen to nature.
I've gotta give them an A for effort. But . . .
I feel like if your opening track reminds me of my morning subway commute (in a bad way), you’re not even trying. I suppose I am of a somewhat conservative mindset when it comes to assessing music - it is art but it is also entertainment. You have to balance these two things to capture a listener.
This was a pretty quick hell no from me. As soon as I read it was going to be noise rock, it had an uphill battle to convince me to listen to a full album of that genre… As expected, I bailed about song 3. It was grating on me, and eventually I couldn’t take the noise anymore.
Not another one. This sentence from the Wikipedia article sums it up. ‘The album takes the form of a very loose concept album concerning witchcraft upon The Brocken (a mountain) during Walpurgis Night, and tales of witch trials in the area around the Harz Mountains in Germany.’ A long long way from misty mountain hop. Or March of the black queen. Let alone sunshine of your love, seven nation army, deacon blues, aqualung, Pompeii by bastille , shake it off … Just unknowing junk. Someone made the not unreasonable point that a bunch of us complain about another Neil young or Morrissey album and then we complain when something different like this comes along. I can see where they’re coming from. But this is so unappealing to me. (Also who cares that he studied under Mike Nock at the Sydney Conservatorium as per his Wikipedia page? Mike’s a nice guy a brilliant drummer and a great teacher but if that’s all you have to say about your drumming, not ‘built a career in doing worthwhile music’ then perhaps you’re not ready for a career …
very experimental, not really my taste
“I no longer want to be a man. I want to be a horse. Men have small thoughts. I need a tail.” Perhaps Liars should have been granted this wish, then we would probably have been spared the next 40 minutes... Apparently there really is a target audience for this “music,” so I gave it a second try and discovered that further back on “They Were Wrong So We Drowned” there are actually occasional hints of song structures. You have to imagine it a bit like Gregorian chants, except that most of the choir isn't singing, but rhythmically banging on whatever is available—kitchen utensils or furniture, for example. It's certainly innovative in some way, but you really don't need to hear it before you turn into a horse.
I thought I made it a lot further than I did before I quit. JFC, this was bad.
Just an awful lot of awful noise
There's groundwork for an interesting album here. But for an album inspired by witch trials and which tries a lot of things, it's also surprisingly boring. The vocals sound emotionless; on the first track the singer drones "blood" a bunch of times - are these witches scary or not? Musically there's a lot of empty space here between the noise that makes me wish there was more happening. There is some cool stuff! But it's very fleeting. An abrasive noise on the 3rd track gives way to a super simple beat. There's a nice vocal melody on the last track that fades into nothing. The 8th and 9th tracks have the most interesting, rhythmic percussion, and the 8th track pairs it with hard hitting noise to create what's easily the best track. But so much of the album is atmospheric without getting any kind of eerieness or dread across, and more engaging moments may have helped.
The music by defintion is subjective. This was an interesting 40 minutes. I didn't like this at all and tried to understand where the band was coming from and why some people find this good. There were a few moments where I thought I had grasped something, but those were so fleeting that I could not wrap my brain around this album. My teenage daughter came into the room where I was listening to this and confusingly asked what I was listening to. I found myself unable to concentrate on the music, my brain was slowly drowning it out because it was anxiety inducing. The beautiful thing about humanity is we are all our own individual person, and sometime millions of people like the same thing and sometimes only 3 people like it. Is it good, is it bad, no - it just is. (100 Million people listen to Taylor Swift a month on Spotify - I can't stand her music and 46,000 listen to these guys - I would arguably willingly listen to this again over a Taylor album). But if this gets your toes tappin or head bangin, good on ya - but as the wise philospher Austin Powers once said "it's not my bag baby!" And all that to say, this does not belong on any list 1001, 5005, 800000008, no need to hear this. You dig it, great - not anything that needs historical cataloguing. 2.2/10 148/1001
what you hear at a festival at 2pm with a crowd smelling of weed and sweat
don't like it, too much form me, too much noise
Without checking, I guarantee this band and Death Grips are somehow influences of the other... Alright I just checked and Terence Stamp died
UGHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Somehow I got through the whole thing
This is not my vibe
I am really struggling to find the merit here. I can see the appeal of Captain Beefeater as outsider art, but Liars is not doing anything new and it's painful
Helt forferdelig, bare støy (bokstavelig talt)
Gar nicht meins
At least it was experimental
I can't believe a label actually spent who knows how much in studio costs to make something less listenable than I can in my bedroom alone with nothing but a DAW and a mouse
album is garage band-y. not rlly singing as much as it is speaking and very sfx focused. experimental, which is a style that i don’t typically like. least fav song: steam rose from the lifeless cloak. fav song: they don’t want your corn they want your kids. overall, 2/10. has talent, has potential, but i did not care for it.
Listening to this album is an act of self harm. It doesn’t work on any level and has nothing whatsoever to recommend it.
Nope, can't do it. This sounds like two kids who got a copy of "the dummies guide to music production", gave it a scan, said to themselves "cool, we can do proto -industrial jazz ", and then broke all roles in the book. I've heard better lyrics at freshman night at the student union beat poetry reading circle. Why is this shit on the list? This is utter garbage. I finally found an album that makes me WANT to listen to Kid Rock. Dear God. My rating. -10/5.
Seriously it’s just noise. It’s not ‘groundbreaking’.
Sehr anstrengend
This felt like a prank. Annoying nonsense sounds thrown together that I did not need to listen to at any point before I die.
1st song on the album made me want to stop listening to this album. I felt like I was taking a hearing test with all the beeping in the background. I really think if you needed list filler there was better choices than this. Heck, according to fans of this band, this isn't even a record worth mentioning when talking about their best records. Honestly, I would much rather listen to an hour of pure white noise instead of this album. I again wish they had a zero or even negative star rating available. 1 star
Well that was different and unique. It was also just noise. Awful, grating noise.
Why? Stop it.
Probably would give a zero star rating here if I could. Certainly has some interesting elements, and I can appreciate a lot of the raw emotion that seems to be the driving force behind the music. Beside that though this was not a fun or impactful listen for me personally. Fav Track: Hold Hands And It Will Happen Anyway
this is terrible music
wtf was this?
I did not know that music could induce literal nausea
I hate experimental music
Well, I had forgotten where I had heard of this album before. Started listening and immediately knew... this is from the bottom of the global rankings on here. Well deserved honestly. Definitely one of those art rock albums where they try to make it as unlistenable as possible
No thank you.
Kind of a modern day Captain Beefheart with the a bit more rhythmic quality. I will never understand how this makes the list but Tool's Lateralus or Isis' Panopticon is left off. Only interesting thing about this album is the cover art.
No. Didn’t NEED to hear this.
not my type
This brings me back to those heady days of early aughts indie music, where you didn't necessarily need to be good, just different, to garner media attention and a record deal. The emperor has no clothes!
This is awful, ear-piercing
*no music, merely annoying sounds
This album sucked
Såkaldt noise-rock - det lever på til det
Wow what an incredible boring thing.
I don't know what to say about this .... noise.
Whoa… this is the shit you hear as the Elon machines take over your brain and body. Conscious yet unable to speak, your existence is now suspended in eternal hell as they slowly harvest your cells. The machines have been programmed to placate their subjects with sound and drug. As is typical of all new government software, they only got it half right.
Not to my liking -could have skipped this one for sure.
No, just... no. This music gave me a headache.
Music you only hear when you're about to be graphically butchered by a serial killer in the woods.
If pop music is a Marvel movie, this is an A24 folk horror short with no dialogue, made on a grainy VHS camera.
Not my thing, not enough of anything for me. Not boppy enough for electronic Not loud enough for noise Not fast or interesting enough for punk I feel others have done this a lot better. it is definitely weird, some credit for that
I'm so bad with music that has no rhythm.
point0.
I…don’t get it
Didn't get past the second song, just wasnt good
Si pudiera no le daría estrella. No tiene sentido alguno todo lo que se presenta en este disco y ni siquiera tratan de mantener un tiempo coherente. Sirve para entender que no hacer.