Reviews (page 7 of 8)
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.
hey huere geil mega hey super comback da, han scho denkt ezt hani da was verpasst wonis ein punke album gseh han aber da chunt grad namal eis füre da machi ezt grad eh prediction uf die ander site und seg da git namal es runds 1
"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
How bad is it? I'd rather listen to Adele.
This was not enjoyable
This would be the result if that High School Musical 2 scene where they play pots and pans in the kitchen took place at a school for witches.
Before I even start with a comment on this record, I just want to note that I love many an experimental record. (Gave Duck Stabber a 5 I love that shii) Pushing the boundaries of what is considered music is a fantastic concept. But the only thing that I can give this record points for is intentionally sounding as unlistenable and unimaginative as possible. Everything clashes, it offers nothing new, and most of all, it sounds lazy. Loops played over and over to a level of nausea. Why would anyone want to listen to this when there are far more interesting and wonderfully listening abrasive records out there?
I played this noisy noise for my teen specifically to annoy her. It worked. Bonus is that now she knows how bad music can be, so she is much more willing to listen to my regular music now.
The good news is that it’s not 100% terrible.
Lol mitä paskaa
I have no words man. This is mega ass, holy fart. I can't believe a group of people got together and made this piece of shart of an album. Giving this a 1 is being generous. P O O 0.50-1.00/5
First album to actually make me angry so that’s something
Хератень самая настоящая
Well, it sure lives up to its genre.
That was painful !
this is fucking insane it's so weird
0:23 ohhhh what the fuck It is not the day for this "I no longer want to be a man, i want to be a horse"🙏🙏🙏 Thats actually alright i think, three songs will do
Rock is beautiful except when it's only noise
Didn’t vibe with this
Noise Rock ain't my jam
kerr: [clapping] [varejao walks by kerr on his way to the bench] kerr: [eyes widen, puffs out cheeks, mouths "wow holy shit"]
Schrecklich. Gelegentlich finden sie mal eine Melodie, aber das ist selten. Mag ich gar nicht.
That‘s definitely not my music
HARD pass.
I’m going to have to up my percentage of albums / artists I’ve never heard of before…this was painful. Listening to this might be what it feels like to drown. There was not even one song that could’ve been thrown as a lifesaver to make this worthwhile.
Poop
I just don't get noise music. It's so bland to me, lacking in this things that make music, music for me. Which is Melody and Harmony.
A witchcraft themed experimental noise rock album. Not for me. Rating: 1.5/5 Playlist track: We Fenced Other Gardens With the Bones of Our Own Date listened: 14/06/24
1/5. This just is not good. It isn't even good noise rock.
Hey man, this sucks. Like industrial construction garbage sounds. What a chore to listen to.
If I could give this album negative stars therefore negating previously earned stars I would do it
1. uuitch - 0 2. roze - 0 3. broom - 0 4. glazzez - 0 5. bonez - 1 6. corn - 1 7. book - 0 8. handz - 1 9. livez - 0 10. tearz - 1
Really pretentious, really boring. The community score for fellow noise rock band Lightning Bolt is sadly very low, but the community has it right for this one: it sucks.
Ordinarily I’d probably toss this a couple of stars for at least being experimental and edgy, but I’m not in the mood today. I’m tired, it’s late, I’m at an airport after a holiday and I just want to hear something that sounds like music. A couple of times (e.g. the final track) a genuine melody or hook emerged and I was almost suckered into giving the album that second star, but then I remembered this is 1001 albums you must hear before you die - the bar surely cannot be that low. Also, I can’t overlook the grammatical error on the title of track 4, intentional or not.
I absolutely fucking hated this shit. 1
So... This is what my square and tone-deaf colleagues are hearing and feeling when they listen to my favourite experimental acts (acts such as Sonic Youth, Can, Beak >, Women, Preoccupations, These New Puritans, Animal Collective, Swans, Death Grips, Squid, Dry Cleaning...). I can't dare imagine what they would feel listening to this transitional, clearly self-indulgent Liars record. Looks like they would probably not even give the thing a thought. Lucky bastards. If really you had to select one Liars album, *Drums Not Dead* is the one to go to, not this misfire. *They Were So Wrong So We Drowned* sure conveys the idea that the Brooklyn outfit is at least an interesting band to see play live, at least if your ears are attuned to experimental ideas. But as far as studio albums go, this record feels like a meandering and *style-over-substance* pretentious parody of "experimental music". And in this genre as in any other, it's hard to get excited by *bad* ideas. Here's what I would tell to my colleagues who usually enjoy Adèle, Sia or Muse. The thing is, there's not even a chance my square colleagues will ever listen to Liars one day. And the day this happens, it will probably be the end of the world. Physicians can predict what occurs when matter and anti-matter meet. It's not a pretty sight, and something that is even uglier than what the music on this record. 1/5 for the purposes of this list. 5/10 for more general purposes (5 + 0) Number of albums left to review: 173 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 361 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 207 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 263 (including this one)
No idea what I just listened too here
I didn't listen to the whole thing, but it would be a good soundtrack to accompany a mental breakdown. Metacritic gives this a 64/100, so naturally it should be on the 1001 albums list. 1.8
Just awful
I think it was a bad sign when I started laughing halfway through opening track. It reminded me of drama students having to do weird stuff in class to try and show how creative they are.
STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 1/5
Hated it
WTF is this pile of noise? Zero stars, maybe minus stars. But I have to give this mess one star in order for my opinion to be heard.
I was trying to figure out why I didn’t know this when this should’ve been out at the height of my musical awareness days. So I started listening and quickly realized why I had never even heard of this. It’s garbage just absolute trash.
Apparently some people get it, I'm not one of them.
I know some people who love this kind of thing but it’s just not to my taste
That was rough, but made it through. Noise rock - not for me. (0.9*s)
This was an assault on my ears. A bunch of random noises + some electronic beats + eclectic cymbals + static + cat screech = this album. The lyrics are complete nonsense and I didn't like the chanting vibes and repetition.
There are no words for how horrible this is
There are few traces of anything resembling structure, melody, or execution. It’s less music than performance art.
Nope.
Ännu ett album med experimentella oljud. Hoppas innerligen att typ Grant Macdonald är med på den här listan. Borde platsa med tanke på detta album.
1/10. I like to think I’m developing in allowing all sorts of music to drive a variety of emotions and get a feel for what is being brought with different styles of music. But…what the fuck was this?
Literal noise that’s recorded. Some portions were ok, but I only made it 4 songs in before turning it off. Listen again: no Purchase for my collection: no Favourite Song: none
lol wut
Not noise not good
It's difficult to make out melodies and songs. Nothing made me bob my head or tap my foot. The album seems a mess and incoherent to me. I'm not even sure I could label this album as iconic or influential in anyway.
yeah you can suck a fat one buddy
The hell is this shit
I don’t think I’ve heard of liars before. However, Apple Music is telling me it is 2004 rock music which does seem tight up my street. The album cover is making me expect punk. I thought that I was pretty good with this era of rock music but I guess these passed me by. Let’s listen. Songs I already knew: none Favourites: Broken Witch I’ll be straight up with this. For the most part, this album sucked. It was messy noise and didn’t really make me feel or think anything, which basically makes it a waste of my time. There were occasionally parts where it did find myself enjoying the weirdness of it, but it was honestly a rarity rather than the norm. I can’t really recommend this to anybody. It’s naff.
The worst music I've ever listened!
I'm glad that experimentation in music exists, including this album. Equally glad I won't have to listen to it again.
Uhh what was that?
lmao why on earth would this ever be on this list?
No one wants this album here. It’s not critically acclaimed. The users seem to hate it even more. It’s not groundbreaking in any way. It’s just fucking terrible.
A collection of unpleasant noises. The sort of album I expect to be described as 'challenging' i.e. a bit shit. There were 1 or 2 passable songs sprinkled in but not enough to be remotely enjoyable.
1* Way too concept and shit
Easily one of the worst albums I've ever heard.
There is something interesting about raw, low quality, noise, recordings. Unfortunately for me, my interest in it is very small. Sure there are some cool ideas and unique ways of accomplishing it.. But I don't need a whole album of this. Lyrics are trash. Angsty, edgy, and annoying. If a friend of mine came up to me and said "hey man, I've got some new music to show you." and then proceeded to show me this... I would be a good friend and tell them they should kindly keep this to themselves.
Uma palavra pra descrever isso: wtf?
Noise rock nonsense. Not a fan.
gruselig, furchtbar
Heyrðu, já, þetta er líka svona svakalega leiðinlegt.
Noise rock. No me ha gustado nada de nada. Un 1.
Oof. A perfect one-two punch of terrible. Concept albums really work out for the artist, and this is no exception. The "concept" here is loose and shallow and very try hard at the same time. Add to that the fact that this is a noise rock album, and you're just setting yourself up for failure. There's nothing enjoyable, skillful, interesting, or noteworthy about this album aside from the fact that it is so incredibly annoying to listen to.
"Interesting" but not a repeatable listen.
Unlistenable.
i was dreading listening to this based on some of the reviews but tried to go in with an open mind. my initial reaction was right though. this is bad.
no I want to be a horse. It has some ok moments but overall quite the assault on the ears.
So, whoever put the list together knows someone in this band yeah?
Garbage. Not even a famous or influential album or band? What the heck is this? Is someone in the band friends with the people who made the list? I like noise, this isn’t even good noise! The best part of the album is the song titles.
feels like someone just shitted in my head
Absolute shite. Every single track. Every single note. Absolute total shite from start to finish. Binned.
This album could be best summarized by the following quote: “Loud noises!” - Brick Tamland Yeah, it wasn’t good.
The fuck was this?
What even is happening in all this noise. I just can’t understand why this would be top 1001…
BLOOD... BLOOD... BLOOD... Let's fucking not.
They Were Wrong, So We Drowned is atrocious. It has no redeeming features, it's apparently classified as noise rock but it's just noise, and not good noise, not interesting noise, not coherent noise, rambling nonsense lyrics from a vocalist who can't sing, I'm not really sure it should be classified as music. If you wanna piss around in the studio and produce stuff like this, knock yourselves out, but how it even got released let alone find a place on this list I don't know. Fuck off.
Total rubbish. Harsh on noise to call this noise rock. Doesn't get even close to being interesting, the music isn't music and the singing is barely singing. 1/5.
Houdoe. Oorspronkelijk was dat alles wat ik hier over wilde zeggen, maar het voelt toch niet goed om het daar bij te laten. Ook al dekt het de lading wel. Dit is gewoon kut. Hou gewoon op met doen alsof het niet zo is. Niet alles wat niet te begrijpen valt is diepzinnig. Je komt niet ontwikkeld over als je dit een 5 geeft. De tracks variëren van flink kut tot extreem kut. De hoofdvraag is 'kan ik dit helemaal uitzitten', wat eigenlijk al een debiele vraag is in de context van muziek. Technisch is dit misschien alsnog wel knap, dat kan ik niet helemaal beoordelen, maar dit wil je niet gaan zitten luisteren. Het zet minimaal 6 stappen te veel richting het experimentele. In track 8 valt nog iets van een muzieknummer te ontdekken en het eindigt wel lekker met die kalme track 10, maar dat is het dan wel. Houdoe.
A whole lot of noise that says a whole lot of nothing.
Seem deep for a smoked out college dorm room in 2006,
10 Spooky Halloween Sounds… The song titles are really interesting. We Fenced Other Gardens With the Bones of Our Own is the 5th song on the album and the first with any structure. I picture people claiming to like this to seem obscure. Very experimental and a complete piece of crap.
Album 309 of 1001 Liars - They Were Wrong, So We Drowned Rating : 1 / 5 The band is described as "Noise Rock". That is apropos. One's noise is another's music, I guess.
1.5/5
Another one of these arty experimental type things. It's just a collection of noises, I don't know what to do with this. Pish
I just can't do it anymore, I really can't.
jarring
Best Songs: N/A Listen Again: No
Didn't do much for me
I don't understand noise rock
Cacophony of sound effects. Heavy metal without the melody.
This is garbage. I don't usually say that about music, but I'm not finding any redeeming quality to these songs except for the silence between tracks.
This is awful. Couldn't get through 10 minutes of it. 1/5
A bit too languid
Fucking shite. The world isn’t out to get you, white man
Are you F-ing kidding me with this crap.
Trash.
Wow. This sucks! Not only that, but this album seems to have almost no cultural significance whatsoever. Why is this on the list?! The singing is extremely boring and not at all enjoyable to listen to. The sound is listenable at best and painful at its worst, which also happens to be its most common. The writing doesn't make much sense. I can kind of see where this band may have been going for with the witch theming, but it doesn't feel cohesive whatsoever. I really don't know what to say. This is just worthless. Why the guy who made the book this website is based around thought this was a good addition is beyond me. Nobody should have to listen to this before they die, and if they listen to it after they die, they're in hell. 1/5.
There's maybe 2 listenable tracks. Sounds like they prefer playing with machine parts over playing instruments.
They were wrong but it felt like I drowned. -2/10
Not good. Didn’t listen to this a second time.
Pretty damn horrendous but I got through it which is better than I was expecting and deserves some credit ig. I’m just thinking ab how someone definitely produced this and listened and okayed it which is pretty bold and pretentious. As far as music goes this is p bad but I guess I’d still call it music. 2.5/10
I spent most of the album trying to think of words to describe how bad it was. It’s everything I don’t like in music. Every time something good started to happen, there was a record scratch effect or some other nonsense and it plunged down to really bad again. If I was in jail and they wanted to torture me, this would be the background music. +1 for lyrical creativity (albeit weirdness) and because the first half of the last song wasn’t awful. And because we have a long way to go and I don’t want to bottom out yet. 2/10
2/10 - The songs got better as it went on but I just could not handle most of the songs. Like them just screaming blood was not it for me.
very bad, not good, but something is probably worse 1.3/10
Masterpiece. 1/10
Just noise