Reviews (page 6 of 7)
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.
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.
nope. this is some arty shitbag nonsense I have no time for or interest in. Not at all required listening.
Why?? This was beyond awful!! At no point in their rambling, incoherent music were they even close to anything that could be considered a rational song. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it!! If I could have awarded no points, I would have.
Wow, that sucked! I’m guessing this is what they must play in hell.
I guess this was supposed to the be album that actually killed you on the list of albums to hear before you die?
What the fuck, man. I get it, it’s moody and spooky. Pretty rough listen if you actually like music
Fucking torturous....
If you think this is anything but complete shit you're a pretentious ass and I will never take you seriously.
This was a rough listen
This is genuinely awful. Even the bad stuff before I thought at least it had been influential, but there was loads of bands doing similar stuff to this at the same time with much better results.
Full agreement with everything already said on this one
5 stars for originality. 0 stars for accessibility and enjoyment. That averages out to a 1. 😂 Maybe I would understand and appreciate better with repeated listens, but I have no interest in doing that, I’m afraid.
Well, I loved the track names. Not so much the music. It was very weird and too abstract for my taste - it felt like a really bad NIN. I can't recommend this one. Rating: 1
This is not music
I tried!! Hated the beginning, was bearable in the middle, was annoyed again towards the end.
No
Art is in the eye of the beholder so who am I to judge, but this one ain’t it.
If you really want to give yourself a migraine listen to this - irritating and tuneless. Like you gave some four year olds some guitars and a drum kit. In fact their repetitive "lyrics" sound like they were written by young-uns.
Once I saw experimental/noise rock on the Wikipedia, I knew I'd be in for a tough one. I'll admit there were moments where the rhythms weren't too bad, but can't ignore how dreadful it was otherwise.
Awful
Track 1 abrasive noise Track 2 the sound of a panic attack Track 3 standing outside a school music within which a collection of kids are doing there own thing I decided to wait for something positive to write but that never came. This only serves value in making you appreciate how much better most of the list is. It is more likely to be the sound i hear at the point of death than something you need to hear before it
This album should be grateful I can’t give less than 1 star. So bad, it made my dog’s ears pin back with fear when she heard it.
They can certainly come up with a fun song name. Its a toss up between "If You're a Wizard Then Why Do You Wear Glasses?" and "They Don't Want Your Corn, They Want Your Kids" for me. But sonically, it's 99% noise and nothing much else. It sounds a bit like it should be playing in a dark basement in a Blade movie. A rare: 1/5
Strange band. Strange music.
they are yet to cross the threshold that makes.l noise music.
not for me
GARBAGE!!!
no
Not a good album.
Man, I just don’t get noise rock. It’s hard for me to think of this as music.
Not for me too experimental just noise too chaotic
Och man. Door omstandigheden moest ik dit met oortjes luisteren. Het zijn de stoute zonen van Captain Beefheart, die dachten 'wat pa kon, kunnen wij ook': pesterige, aanstellerige baggermuziek maken om luisteraars van de top-1001 te tergen. Mijn oren tuiten er nog van. Pleur toch op.
Voor problemen met je 28k8 modem kun je normaal gesproken het beste contact opnemen met worldonline. Deze gasten hebben hun oude modem aangesloten op de opgeblazen speakers van opa. Onsamenhanged geluid waar ze af en toe wat over heen mediteren. Ik heb niet vaak last dat het te schel is, maar dit is soms een aanslag op de trommelvliezen. Ik snap niet wat er zo leuk kan zijn aan dit soort muziek. Niet om te luisteren, maar ook niet om te maken. Als je dan nog miljoenen verdient, dan kun je het nog als werk zien. Maar dit zit in zo'n onbeduidend hoekje, dat ik me niet kan voorstellen dat ze hiermee in hun onderhoud kunnen voorzien. Of Robert Dimery moet dit bekostigen op persoonlijke titel. Op een of andere rare manier heb ik het nog helemaal uit kunnen luisteren. Het zit qua sterren dus iets boven de 1, en het is niet het allerslechtste album, er is simpelweg nog kutter gemaakt. Afgerond is het alsnog een 1, hier zit weinig luisterplezier in. Het enige plezier dat het geeft, is als het album afgelopen is.
noise rock?
Easy 1 Star, next.
You know, sometimes you see that an album is in a genre you dislike (in this case noise rock) and after listening you're pleasantly surprised. Other times, the album justifies why you dislike that genre. In this case, it was the latter. Couldn't wait for this to end.
What the heck was that
I am sure they did their best
Wow for en oplevelse! Det her album gjorde helt konkret fysisk ond at lytte til. Jeg kunne mærke en uro og ubehagelighed i hele kroppen. Der er faktisk interessante elementer, men særligt rytmesektionens lyd er helt off for mig. Det lyder som om de har lånt Lars Ulrichs lilletromme fra St. Anger indspilningerne og den så har inficeret både trommesæt og bas. En oplevelse at lytte til. Men en jeg ikke har brug for at have igen.
I am insulted that trash like this is included on a list of noteworthy albums. Honestly in the bottom five of the 150 or so albums I've had to review thus far. Absolutely awful.
Horrible
Noise rock band. That’s all I needed to know.
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"Noise rock". Well, that seems to discribe it quite well. I feel like the author of the book puts these albums on the list as some sort of weird prank.
Noise rock with almost all of the emphasis on “Noise” Experimental music like this isn’t always bad, but there’s a line between something being experimental music and it just being noises, and this album crosses that line several times.
This one’s a nope
Terrible. I could've died blissfully ignorant that this album existed
Noise rock? Ugh. Sure enough, there were a lot of random noises here. I felt myself losing my patience and getting increasingly restless while listening to this. 1* Song titles are great though
this band was in the studio like “this shit is trash. drop it”
40/1001 I don't know who I've pissed off, but getting Suicide, then this back to back? Look, I'm genuinely going into this with an open mind, and am hoping to find hidden gems among genres and artists I might not usually consider listening to. I know people who enjoy sound collages, and experimental stuff of that ilk, and I can even see how that kind of thing is probably a lot of fun to produce. But this is beyond niche for me - it is bordering on anti-music (and I also get that there is not necessarily anything implicit in "1001 albums" which says they have to be albums of music). There is, I must confess, craft to what Liars are doing here, but that does not change the fact that the end result is an absolute chore to listen to. ZX Spectrum loading noises? I love them, but not in a song. Why?
Nope
I do not care for this at all.
Award for worst album thus far
Just not our vibe at all. An unpleasant sound. We made it halfway through but just could not finish this one
Experimental. Noise.
Damn this sucked. Three seconds in and I knew it’d be a struggle to finish and I was right. Just bad sounds mixed with other bad sounds. No thanks.
What the actual everliving shit. Not only is this hot garbage with no musical talent whatsoever within, it also sounds horrible. Bonus! They're insulting you. 1/10 1 projectile vomit 🤮
что это за безумное в блендере перемоленное говно?
Lärm. Und auch noch nerviger. 0
I could not make it halfway through this hot garbage. Repetitive vocals that just say the same thing over and over agin through each song. Noise that sounds like outtakes of studio noise while recording an actual album. I could feel a migraine rising if I would have kept listening to this. 1/10
Noise Rock straining my ears from the first minute on.
Here's a reality check... A banana taped to a drywall is not art, and neither is the noise on this album. It sounds like a bunch of random people who had never played an instrument or sung in their lives were let loose in the studio to try and record an album.
Usually I appreciate experimental stuff, but this was a bit too unnecessary.
I get downright giddy when one of the worst rated albums pops up. This did not disappoint. Utter dogshit.
I think the only Liars here are the people who said we have to listen to this before we die! What an absolute load of shit! I tried my best but just couldn’t take any more after 3 tracks and I’m pretty open minded, it was so bad I deleted it!
No
Sounds like an experimental album which my be why I was put off from it, difficult to understand
What the fuck is this. Some parts are A LITTLE catchy but I’d never add this to my playlist. Was this made to scare kids?
Sucks so much
Actual crap! Why is "They Were Wrong, So We Drowned" categorized as "rock music" when it is just noise? There is not one single good track. The album is flat out unlistenable.
I've never listened to Liars, I know nothing about them, and I really like this album cover. Excitement is high going into this. Ok first track is out there. Really hoping this record morphs into something cohesive and it's not trippy experimental drum n bass the whole way through. Track 2 was a hard no. Nevermind. This record sucks. First one I can't get through. Maybe these guys needed to exist for The Books and TV on The Radio to be received as well as they were, but this sucks. Fucking terrible. It's like Blue Man Group spent the summer in London and decided they wanted to put out a punk record.
Another terrible "sound rock" experience
Yeah, this is not for me. It’s really annoying and unpleasant.
Liars are another darling of the early oughts post punk inspired indie rock. I remember liking them but not sure if it was that notable to merit inclusion on this list. Let's give it another go. This is different from their first album, which was much more post punk-y. This is experimental noise rock. I'm not one to shy away from experimental music so I'm giving it a try. The challenge with experimental music is how to make meaningful and interesting experiments while remaining communicative and engaging. Just making noise that doesn't connect to anybody emotionally is pointless. I'm afraid this is closer to the pointless side of the map. Compared, say, to something like Neurosis/Tribes of Neurot or Xiu Xiu who take this kind of music to someplace where the listener actually cares. I applaud the ambition but I think the result is unlistenable, and as somebody who does sometimes like music like this, I wouldn't say this is a notable work.
This was excruciating. Make the pain stop I'm begging you
Not for me 1/5
Nope
I'm not high enough for this
Noise. Crap.
# 399 : CAN'T LISTEN - DON'T LIKE IT - another album in my 1001 albums to AVOID before you die.
Too many screetchy guitars noises with no reason... not my thing. I couldn't find a redeeming quality here.
Harold and Kumar record a soundtrack for the Blair Witch project.
I heard this was a rough listen before I got to it and whoever said that was correct. So far, this was one of the toughest listens on the list. No idea what it is doing on this list but if you like abrasive noise rock, I would suggest listening to Melt-Banana instead and staying far away from this album. It's bad and it put me in a bad mood
I didn't like this album. It just sounded like noise to me, and I don't like noise.
Not good. The bad singing brings an amateurish quality that is already bluntly apparent from the scattered, tribal-esque percussion and extremely simple melodies and chords. With the exception of the album opener, Broken Witch, the entire album has a sluggish energy that it never really squirms free from. There's (almost) nothing exciting to let the album "pick up" from its lulls. And yet the songs seem to insist to the listener: "Trust me, I'm clever! You must acquire more delusion in order to see the truth!" I'm really trying to see the substance here, but it's just noise. Vaguely interesting noise, to be sure – but in the end, nothing more. I suspect this is the reason why They Were Wrong is far from their most popular album, and I wonder why the authors thought it should be included in a list of the 1001 most important records of all time, while Pink Floyd's Animals shouldn't. Insanity. 1/5 Key tracks: There's Always Room on the Broom, They Don't Want Your Corn They Want Your , Flow My Tears the Spider Said
Nope
Awful
Horrid - the drummer seems to be the only band member who actually knows how to play their instrument, and the singing is weird in a way only hipsters could enjoy
Nah, this is just bad.
I did listen to the whole album but I don't think it will be on my playlist.
Heavy drum situation
I mean, it's not the worst noise album I've ever heard, but why would I listen to this when early Animal Collective exists? Gives me flashbacks to college. 2/10
I tried, I can't.
I don't know why people pretend to like this kind of shit.
In a nutshell: Part atmospheric industrial, part cult ceremony soundtrack. It's weird. It's conceptual. It's definitely experimental. I made the mistake of listening to the YouTube playlist, because when the video for "There's Always Room on the Broom" came on, I was convinced that the band made the album while on a bad acid trip. Yeah, nah. I couldn't get into it. There has to be better noise/industrial/experimental albums to put on the list. Overall: 1/10
There should be a rating for "unlistenable".
It’s not giving me the Christmas vibe I’m expecting this time of year.
This is the music that they play in the elevator on the way to hell, but 3 minutes in you realize you’re already in hell
Not for me
You think by the titles of the songs it will be good, but absolutely not! It’s so awful!
I have no idea who "They" are but clearly "They" were not wrong and "We" who must be the band are clearly Liars who didn't drown but managed to inflict this abomination on "Us" anyone unfortunate enough to have heard it.
There is just so much music like this on this list and I wonder why. I get why people might like it, but feels like every week I’m hit with one or two noise/industrial rock albums that are a heavy beat with whateverthefuck over top of it. The beats never bad, but the rest of it usually is.
Really wanted to like this - but was a struggle.
Brian and Vulva's second album...
Is there a rating less than 1 star?
Terrible
Load of shite
What the heck is this??? It’s quite horrible.
What a waste of recording time
A complete waste of time. 10 skipped / 10
I couldn't stand that. Sounded like a load of 18 year old music/drama students who set out just to make something 'different' but forgot to remember that it should be enjoyable to listen to.
Industrial noise music. It was an interesting distraction, but after a song or two, there was nothing grabbing or exciting about teh music and it is really more noise than actual songs. I'd skip this one.
I’m sorry, what?
This is just noise, one of the tracks literally is just a recording of someone being on the phone in a cave with really bad reception. Barely music, an absolute codshead of an album, in fact probably better to call it a collection of noise. Fuck you koffi you weirdo
Not a fan. Not an album to sit down and relax listening to. Cant think of a situation where putting this album on to enjoy would be merited. It could be used to punish someone you dislike/need to break in a situation where they were forced to listen to it.
This is dog shit 1/5
This is, without a doubt, the album I have disliked the most in this exercise. This is self-indulgent noise, resembling nothing quite so much as an attention starved seven year old, who has decided to bleat out annoying noises until his parents pay attention to him. Unfortunately, I remember this scene all too well: a scene that seemed to be driven and defined by bratty, fundamentally self-conscious, irony-obsessed, over-educated art school rich boys on drugs. The best that can be hoped for this album is that a keenly-eared hip hop producer will sample it in service to a certainly superior end product to the original. This is trash. The artists knew it, and they laughed at you for buying it.
WTF is this? Just noise. The titles don't even make sense. They just slapped a title on it and made random shitty noise. Worst album so far. Candidate for worst album. Best song: We Fenced Other Gardens With the Bones of Our Own
01) Broken Witch - 2,5 02) Steam Rose from the Lifeless Cloak - 1,0 03) There's Always Room on the Broom - 2,0 04) If You're a Wizard Then Why Do You Wear Glasses? - 2,0 05) We Fenced Other Gardens with the Bones of Our Own - 2,5 06) They Don't Want Your Corn, They Want Your Kids - 3,0 07) Read the Book That Wrote Itself - 1,0 08) Hold Hands and It Will Happen Anyway - 2,5 09) They Took 14 for the Rest of Our Lives - 2,0 10) Flow My Tears, the Spider Said - 2,0 TOTAL: 2,05 (21/100) Current ranking: 366/366 Ok, someone put this on this list as a joke, right? Right? Maybe this was included on the list of albums we must hear before we die for a reason, to teach us some kind of lesson. That lesson, in my mind, is to get to know what those albums from the other side of the spectrum sound like, so we can appreciate Steely Dan (insert any other bland and boring band you hate and whose three albums you already had to listen to) more! Right?
I can’t even begin to say how much I HATED this. What fresh hell is this? And it’s on a cloudy Monday morning after 2024 election. It sounds like a brain MRI. Nope. It’s worse. 1 star only because I can’t give zero. Otherwise it’s a negative 5 stars. This stressed me out.
Shit.
Mikið hrikalega var þetta ömurlega leiðinlegt. Ég beið bara eftir því að platan kláraðist. Það var reyndar einn kafli á plötunni sem ég fílaði. Eftir að hafa þraukað í gegnum hana endaði hún á fuglasöng og þá fór mér að líða betur aftur en ég ætla bara að finna fuglasönginn annarsstaðar.
Ako nešto ne mogu probaviti, to je noise, tako da moram priznati da sam krenula u ovo slušanje s dosta hejta i niskim očekivanjima 😂 Nije bilo tolikoooo loše koliko sam mislila da će biti i u usporedbi s prošlim noise albumom, neke stvari ekšli imaju donekle smisla. Svejedno, nije bilo ničeg što mi se baš onako svidjelo ili mi je bilo ugodno, tako će morati biti 1 iz poštovanja prema albumima koji su mi nekako izgurali do 2. 😁 1/5 ili 2/10.
2.5/10 Teža brija u žanru koji me nikada nije interesirao. Vjerujem da tu mozda ima nekih donekle zanimljivih opskuriteta ali ovaj album mi je 98% vremena bio naporan. Read The Book That Wrote Itself i Hold Hands donekle podnosljive jer me ostatak ispilio, ali ni to mi nije dovoljno dobro da bi si ikad opet pustio. Pass, dalje, next.
Awful, not something I enjoyed at all
Painful
About 1 minute into the first song, I checked the run time and decided 40 mins of this was too much. 1.
Didn't enjoy it much. Noise rock isn't my genre.
Not even offensively experimental, just boring. 1.5/5
I must believe that this isn't even music.
I don't hnow what this is but I hope I never hear it again. 1 star or F- for this trash.
Life's too short to listen to shite like this
Noise rock. No me ha gustado nada de nada. Un 1.
As far as noise rock goes, this is the best I've heard. That being said, it's still noise rock which I don't love. I liked "They Don't Want Your Corn" the best probably. Thought maybe it would bring this album up to a two, but it wasn't THAT good.
So much noise. Started off ok through the first couple songs but then got completely unbearable. Longest song titles of all time too.
"Noise rock" is - by definition - not music. It's just noise.
I love Liars, they have several great albums, so I am baffled this is the one that was chosen. It is awful, completely tuneless and not in an interesting way. Why they didn't go with their following album, Drum's Not Dead, is beyond me. It's also pretty experimental, but unlike this one, that one is amazing. Key tracks: There's Always Room on the Broom
Yeah, reviewers are right. Chaotic nothing, didn't finish
No va
Trying to be objective here but honestly this is just awful. Practically incomparable to anything I have listened to before which is a good thing and has a really strong theme running through it. However there is no 'music' to speak of. It doesn't evoke emotion or thought, it doesn't impart information or wisdom and it doesn't even make me feel uneasy or uncomfortable. It's more like a 6th form art project than an album.
Insufrible...
This album works miracles. My brother has been in a coma for 8 years and this album brought him out of it. He woke up this morning and grabbed my phone and threw it across his hospital room to get it to stop.
no
Weird, just weird and not in a good way. Often atonal and sometimes polyrhythmic, it was perplexingly primitive and hi-tech. It was a portent for Bowie’s Blackstar, but lacked comprehensibility and seemed far more post-apocalyptic.
Juu ei ole tämä noise minun genre. Tykkään laulusoundista, se on kiva yksityiskohta. Muuten yksityiskohtia onkin sitten liikaa. En saa visiosta kiinni. Raskasta kuunneltavaa.
Einstürzende Neubauten ilman uutuudenviehätystä tai minimalistista lämminhenkisyyttä.
azz ho paura di continuare ad ascoltare per altri 30 minuti
Det börjar med 6 minuters plåga. Andra låten var något med Lifeless Cloak och det får man verkligen hålla med om. Det här är uselt. Någon låt var uthärdlig men orkade inte bry mig om titeln för varför skulle jag. Kommer aldrig mer lyssna denna dynga. Obegripligt att de fått ge ut en skiva.
Ganska ohotat det sämsta album jag lyssnat på någonsin.
If this were made in 1964 rather than 2004 there might be some reason to consider this innovative. Anyone with basic knowledge could record random noises into a loop and call it music. Sorry but this album on the same list as some of the best music ever limits the credibility of the whole thing.
Fucking awful
It got one star because I couldn't give it zero. Terrible, terrible thing
Hey, wait a minute! This is more mentally stimulating than 60s pop rock: 🤮😡😭🤬
I don't know and I hope I don't come to that point, when I consider album or music like this on the list of my favorites. Surely the creator of the list must've been high or they have some connections with the band. I rarely skip songs, even in the worst albums. Listening to this one I skipped 9 out of 10. Pretty bad huh.
1/10…Punk, undefinierbare abartige Sounds
So bad. 1.4 stars
:(
Crap
WTF was that?
Can't really appreciate it
A bunch of noise. 1/5
Yuck! :)
I didn't love this album at all. I'm sure someone does, but I'm not seeing it.
me and my 8 awful smelling housemates recorded an album this summer. none of us had ever touched an instrument before and we all think we're the smartest person in the world. hope you enjoy it!
One of the worst so far
Crap.
This is absolute garbage. I'm glad they drowned !
Awful. 1
Noise, basically
No Patrick, a dial-up modem is not a musical instrument. Overall, this album is a giant bag of unpleasantness. Discordant, purposely out of tune instrumentation, and flat distorted vocals don't do it for me. One of the worst so far. I can't prove, but I just know Yoko Ono was involved in the making of this.
This is not music!!!!!
This has to be a joke!?
Wtf
Hard to believe people paid to listen to this album. I am curious how many folks have bought this recording. It should not be on this list. I can record nature songs and strum some strings on electric to no beat.
The concept was odd and honestly I don’t know why it exists
This was terrible. The cover art looks like it was made by 10 year olds and the music sounds the same. The lyrics are trying to be all mysterious and edgy but they’re just weird and nonsensical. Even the instrumentation sounded like it was being played by a bunch of middle schoolers who just found out how to play instruments. This was garbage and I don’t understand why it’s on the list.
Ridiculous album to have on this list.
not my cup of tea
What the actual fuck... Favourite songs: Broken Witch Least favourite songs: Read the Book That Wrote Itself 1/5
Who pays for shit like this to get made? It's noise, literally. No attempt at music.
Some of my 1-star reviews are weird genre stuff I’ve just felt wasn’t for me. Sometimes the musicians are talented but made awful musical decisions. Sometimes they overdo it with the artsiness. Sometimes I can see how some people might like it. Not this, though. This just sucks. Strong WOAT contender here. The band name is accurate though. The lie they tell is that they have any musical ability whatsoever.
This album is garbage
my ears have been assaulted
Extremely experimental, wow would not recommend, ~50k listeners
Horrible
They were wrong, I didn’t need to listen to this album before I died