Kollaps

This is #day808 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and... I have a little bias for this band because my then-future wife (who's into industrial and that kind of stuff) introduced me to Neubauten about ten years ago, and it went from there. As for the record itself, this is a case in point of found music: construction materials and tools throwing a party on a building site. It's also a statement. Like, here we fucking are. Showing you the other side of sound. Deal with it. "One of the most shocking visions ever committed to vinyl"? Perhaps. We do have it in our record collection, along with a couple more Neubauten records. This is a 4 out of 5. Looking forward to #day809.

I’m nothing like y’all

I'm going to be kind and say this is more of a piece of artistic expression, rather than actual music. I get that part of it. Glad to know this exists and I kind of understand why it is on this list.

Oh yeah, 80's industrial noise from Germany. Sometimes pretentious to the max, but complete to my taste in music. Well my neighbours and other persons in my surroundings will disagree, but fuck the haters.

Day 0: Devon says we have a 1.94 rated album. My heart starts to palpitate. He says song 2 opens with drilling into concrete. I begin to salivate. I have no idea what to expect. I skip the fuckass david Bowie album because I have to listen to this. Day 1: I get in my car and load up Tanz Debil. Electric scraping starts and the worst most horrific beat starts with German intermixed. Oh god. This is amazing. Stef Auf Berlin. Exactly as promised. The most abrasive concrete drilling that doesn’t even attempt to pretend to be music. Screaming starts. I am giggling in my car audibly. Negativ Nein. Straight up bubbles and screaming. I am laughing. Everyone must hear this album. The world must know. Song 4 and on, bells and hollering, im still excited, I keep listening to the worst collection of sounds that one could possibly begin to imagine. Screeches, whistling, hollering. It sounds like I am dead and Hell is an industrial factory. I get to school. I start to listen to Kollaps while I am in line for food at the senior bbq. No one could ever possibly imagine what the hell I am listening to right now. I get in my car to go home and realize. im not halfway done yet. Day 2: fatigue and terror. the dark age approaches. I have 14 songs to go. I could be listening to either David Bowie or 1999 by Prince instead of this. I feel like I haven’t slept in 94 hours and Hitler is yelling at me and I am high on an unholy concoction of LSD and cocaine. It only makes sense, the artist must have been as well. That is the only explanation for this. The novelty has worn off. I am tired. I am being screamed at. 7 of these songs end in dub and that doesn’t mean any of these songs sound alike. each song is uniquely awful and makes me wish that I lost my hearing in a freak industrial accident. I feel like I’ve endured a unique form of hell and crawled out, born anew. Better even, as hard times create strong people. i bestow this 1 with the highest honor and respect that i could possibly give. this surpasses pere ubu, this surpasses the pogues, I am almost confident i will never hear anything as abrasive as this and i am so glad that i have had the opportunity to do so. The most deserved 1 i have ever given and maybe ever will give. I am in between a 1 and a 5, there is no in between, but i feel like a 5 would be a genuine disservice to what this album wants to be. This is art and i love this.

This sounded exactly how my nightmares feel

1001AG users are weak af, this is killer. Early noisy industrial music made often with literal tools of industry, all clattering and experimental - I gotta say, it's absolutely for me.

That rare thing: a truly radical album. Way ahead of its time, and much more listenable than I was expecting given the reviews on here.

Probably not a hot take, but I did not like this at all. It felt like all my least favorite music genres in one place: industrial, avant garde post-punk with a wall of sound composition. Turned it off about half way through

Ass

Avant garde German punk. Fans of early NIN might find something to like here. I didn’t.

One of the coolest albums i ever listened to neine kappe

0 stars. Negative stars if I could. After CONSECUTIVE songs with over 40 second intros of nothing but torturous sounds- I’m out

Jaaaaaaaa TANZ DEBIL boah Ihr seit totalisch quatsch, wenn magt ihr Neubauten nicht.

2026.10.21.

Half an hour of noise with some German screaming over it. Pleeeeaase just give me a melody or something. This became annoying super quick, even though I was laughing at the absurdity a bit in the beginning.

this is the sound of mental illness on full display

I love this as an art piece. This is so good. I would love to see the performance of this. That said, I absolutely do not want to listen to this ever again.

complete ass. never give me anything like this again.

Get these guys on the next Silent Hill game soundtrack Favorite song: Kollaps

Whoa. This one comes at you aggressively. I was scared! Fortunately it pulls back a bit, and by the second time through I could appreciate the concept. Not an easy listen but I can imagine that this was hugely influential to industrial bands that followed. On the other hand I saw a reviewer recommend a different album by the same band: Tabula Rasa. Hard to believe it’s the same band! I’m listening now and it’s lovely. The second track is downright peaceful. I wish this were the album chosen for the list, but on the other hand the power of Kollapse is intense and was probably inspirational for many other industrial musicians so I understand why it deserves the place.

Enjoyed this more than I expected. Who knew that industrial German punk was this interesting. Snippets of metal plates and drills etc clashing with German vocals I think and the odd piece of recognisable music has been mixed in (Jet m is a kind of tribute to Serge Gainsbourgs Je' Taime I'm convinced) . I imagine lots of people switch off after a song or two but this is what I'm here for and is something I wouldn't have heard otherwise. And Blixa's part of the Bad Seeds so that was new info to me too.

It’s not even 9am and this album has ruined my day. Can I give 0 stars? “Experimental” garbage.

Awful sounds. Grating and annoying. 1/5

What the fuck kind of psychotic human being listens to this horrible noise and thinks “that’s my jam”?

this isn't something that you listen to... it's something that HAPPENS to you nothing like a good experiment, I like it when art disturbs, and I am delightfully disturbed! a lot of the sounds here are what I look for in compelling horror tracks, so cool!! my first (affectionate) 1 star, excellent work!

- Played in Israel in 2016 and founded the Bad Seeds with NC, so very likely a Zio. - German home spun industrial music from the 80s with a lot of screaming and experimental unexpected sounds. - I don't hate it like a lot of other people do, but I also couldn't see myself reaching for it. I'd definitely prefer it without the vocals. It also felt like it went on way too long, and a lot of the "songs" just end abruptly. - The music did catch my interest a lot of the time, though, and I am glad that I heard the album. So, I don't know... maybe I'll give it a 3 in solidarity with that other reviewer trying to rightfully make Kid Rock the lowest rated album.

I was thoroughly not in the mood for this. On another day I’d have probably loved it but no thank u not today I don’t like loud 2.0/5.0 Best Song: Jet’m

I tried, i wanted to like it, but it's really not for me

Definitely unusual and I’m glad I listened. I had high hopes for this one as I generally like industrial and noise genres, but this one didn’t quite click for me.

Groupe inconnu. Très original mais insupportable à écouter. Je ne suis pas allé au bout. =>1/5

Showed the potential but later stuff big improvement I think

Interesting album I’ll be coming back to. I have Haus der Luege, which is different. Machine noise mixed with warped melodies familiar and others foreign.

This is something you listen to on a dare

Как концепт прото или истинного индастриала это очень круто. И место этого диска в музее современного искусства, как яркий пример акционизма. Но это точно не то , что обязательно услышать в своей жизни. Хотя может мы все это еще услышим вживую. Это постапокалиптический манифест.

pure noise

1 track in and this shit sounds kinda scary tbh lol. A industrial noise album? In distorted German? This shit is terrifying, fucking horror game soundtrack. No thanks…

Band name translates as "Collapsing New Buildings" and this is just noise.

too avantguarde and not enough melodic for me

Zero stars a load of crap, how anyone can listen to this i don't know. Its a German album and I don't speak German so do not know why it appeared on my list. It should have zero stars

That is…. Interesting. Very creative glad that was an influence to other music but not sure I want to listen to it again in that form. Feels like proto industrial

Is this music? In a broad sense, yes. Is it pleasant to listen to? Rarely. Is it interesting in a way that a lot of this list isn't? Oh, hell yes. Its abrasiveness and downright oppositional tone remind me of Suicide, but where that album just felt like some guys fucking around and making music sound different, this feels like a real departure from how music is in modern (1980) society. It feels both primeval and futuristic, using technology (and its effluvia) to make something that sounds like it pre-dates the written word. Blixa's howling plays into that and is probably best exemplified by the end of Negativ Nein when his scream gets distorted until it's fuzz. Wow! They pointed the ship where they wanted to go, it's just not where many people want to go. well guess what? ur goin', bicth. It seems people are divided between the first half (bangin' and clangin') and the second half (dub from hell). Personally, I'm a first half kind of guy, but there's fun for the whole family here. All that close-reading of form and deconstruction and differance and juxtaposition doesn't change the fact that this kind of sucks to listen to. I'm not gonna put it on in the car, I'm not gonna pour myself a glass of wine and enjoy a nice evening listening to Kollaps. It's more like going to an art gallery that somehow stays in business despite only doing shows for weirdoes they know who live on the edge of town and have a barn you're not allowed to go into. Schmerzen horen indeed. In the former category, I'd recommend this to only the strangest of my friends. In the latter, I'd recommend it to most.

Više je eksperiment nego muzika ali mislim da sam odslušala dovoljno toga da vidim pozitivnu stranu. Odlično su pogodili atmosferu, i ne treba biti prijatno za slušati, posebno su mi bile ok pjesme bez pjevanja jer je njemački izuzetno antipatičan jezik posebno kroz pjevanje. Nije da govorim da je bilo dobro ali je bilo značajno manje loše nego što je trebalo.

My last album. Out with the opposite of a bang.

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Honestly, where do I rank this? HOW do I rank this? While there is a kind of fascination in understanding why they produced something so deliberately abrasive, there’s also a large element of “ooh, aren’t we clever and avant-garde?” backslappery about it. There are moments where it actually worked a bit for me - Jet’m is at least an amusing pun and title track Kollaps has enough time to develop, but the majority of the album just seems to be a collection of rhythms beaten with things usually not associated with music. I just don’t get when or why anyone would put this on for any form of enjoyment beyond a smug sense of satisfaction that they “understand” it while the rest of us just sit there going “what the….????”

By the rating scale I've chosen it is a 1/5 as I never want to listen to this again, but I must admit I smiled all the way through. It is interesting to hear that someones core definition of music is so different to mine. Happy that I've heard it. One star (positive)

I kinda vibe with it

nightmare an angry german yelling is not what I needed today

sounds like how this week has felt 👊‼️

It’s cool and weird. Lots of noises and screaming and awesome stuff

shout out hahahah c'est tellement cahotic j'aime bien

I couldn’t finish this one and skipped ahead in tracks. I guess alternative, industrial German music from the early 80’s isn’t for me

I know the first couple of tracks are cacophony, but I have a major soft spot for the Einstürzende Neubauten whom I am not alone here in discovering by exploring members of the Bad Seeds. Really like the title track. Annoyed to find that their later album which I owned (Fünf auf der nach oben offenen Richterskala) is not on my music service so I can’t compare the two, especially because it seems to include a cover of Mountain Dew!

Listened, but never again.

Who knew grocery carts could sound so awesome.

Nothing more Germann has ever been recorded.

ok wow...i'm sorry i'm trying to appreciate how they are pioneers in their genre but it is hard to listen to at times. Sam Kirby worked with them?

Not very soothing or easy to listen to. I feel quite stressed out after listening to this album. This is the perfect album to listen to after 7 or 8 coffees or perhaps while being tortured. Very creative percussion though, I will give it that. The band members should probably seek professional help for writing and recording this album. My first 1 star, and my 360th rating. I'm looking forward to a relaxing evening next listing to Slayer Reign in Blood after I get through this disaster of an album.

New to me. Enjoyed this one, though not sure how often I'd relisten!

Goodness me. This is very much new to me, a brutal and almost unlistenable record. I'm glad it exists and I'm glad for its influence on other records. Impressive but not enjoyable.

OMG - the source ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I did not think you had this one in you RGP but very glad to be proved wrong. 4 stars!!!!!!!!!! Tom.

I guess this is the best of its genre but the genre isn’t very good

To tell the truth it's really hard for me to even call this an album. This is little more than a demo tape, a lot of the production here is so dead and sparse, it sounds like they didn't bother with anything past simply recording it. There are a couple interesting ideas in here, but not enough to sit through 23 songs to get to them. It feels like it's better suited to be a sample pack for some alternative rap producers instead of being listened to. Favorites: Liebesdub, Gastarbeiterdub

I appreciate the bizarreness and truly literal take on "industrial" music, but this is such an unpleasant album to listen to. Almost as if it dares you to like it with how unappealing/atonal it is. And while I respect the commitment to the bit, but it does mean this album is terrible

Okay, I see how this album is polarizing, my highlights were the amount of effort and composition that went into the album. A few of the songs were just noise, and an expression of a feeling, others were better formed. It's not for most people to get, but to just experience.

A new number one worst album I've heard on this list and maybe of all time. Can't believe this is real and the author of this list can go to hell for including this absolute dogshit. Doobie Brothers, Toto, and so many other well-liked, Grammy winning artists / albums aren't even on this list but this garbage is. Actually pissed me off and I wish I could give it a -5 stars

On one hand, it’s unpleasant to listen to. On the other, I suspect my life will now split between before and after I heard Kollaps for the first time. There’s something really cool about it under all the noise. 2 star listen; 5 star experience

I hope I never have to listen to this again. The drill sound at the beginning of track three was insane, and why did one of the tracks make me feel like I was underwater?? This felt like what a toddler would make if they were given an array of items and told to make noise for 3+ minutes, and everything was compiled into one album. Favorite Tracks: None :(

1001 Albums Generator 356 (9/23/2026) So like, industrial music. I get it. I guess. I mean, the point is the noisiness, the unapproachability, the mechanical anger of a thousand machines screaming for freedom. And by that metric, Kollaps is pure industrialism. But, is it really music? What is music? Normally, you hear that music has melody, rhythm, and harmony, which is a gross oversimplification. Something like Spem in Alium doesn't really have rhythm, but we would still call that music. Beatboxing doesn't have melody or harmony, but we would still call it music. So, what is music? I think it's everything. It's the sound of professional orchestras playing to a concert hall, it's the sound of a cat walking across the keys of a piano, it's the sound of waves crashing onto the shore of a beach nobody goes to anymore, it's the sound of a baby's heartbeat on an ultrasound, and it's the sound of a bunch of German guys banging on sheet metal and screaming. 2/5. An interesting artistic statement that I have no interest in returning to. Favs: Tanz Debil Steh Auf Berlin Kollaps Least Fav: U-Haft-Muzak

Different so for that reason I’m awarding a 2 instead of a very predictable 1.

This was interesting. An assault on the brain, but in a way that left me with some good questions.

i like to think of myself as open minded but my mind’s not open enough for this

1981 was the year I first really became aware of music and how it affected my life. Not surprisingly, as an 11 year old, this wasn't on the radar at the time. I've not heard of this, so was intrigued. Started well enough, but quickly became the experiment I feared. No doubt it absolutely deserves it's place here, just not in my ears. Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ Revisit ❌️ ★★☆☆☆(4/10) Total reviewed : 441 Already owned : 99 Purchased : 25 To buy : 1 Nope : 316

Horrible im sorry

Interesting use of noise and metal sounds. Pretty hard work as music for me though.

Bad German experimental noise. 1/10

raw and in the most literal sense industrial. love it for its freedom of musical boundaries, pure raw creative energy.

It’s like someone gave a preschool class a box of sheet metal, three hammers and a microphone, then informed them nap time had been permanently cancelled.

Not good.

What the hell was that? Mid 1

Lets call a spade a spade... this is shit

Well...this is pretty challenginf and noisy but it is also different and, to some extent, interesting. As someone already mentioned, this feels like the music that may be used in a contemporary video-art installation. In any case, I think it deserves at least 2 stars. My "favourite" track was probably "Kollaps" (the cover "Jet'm", "Sehnsucht", or "" are also interesting).

Nej

Awful!

Creepy

Too art school experimental for me

I suppose the author of the book should be congratulated on finding an album worse that Trout Mask Replica!

Yikes

Nah

No

You know the phenomenon where porn addicts have to keep seeking out more and more extreme stuff because the normal stuff doesn't do it for them anymore? This is the musical equivalent of that. I actually sort of appreciate this being on the 1,001 instead of another uninteresting British punk album or something. Like, my ears were destroyed by drills and metal plans clanging and I wanted to quit this album after about two songs, but I appreciate the variety.

The record very well succeeds at setting an unnerving atmosphere, yet keeping you anchored the whole way through with some mechanical rhythms (which really start to grow on you by the end). Their choices of percussion definitely add an interesting texture to it all. I genuinely winced whenever they'd pull out the dentist's drill - quite the unpleasant experience, but fitting for what they're going for. Standouts: Kollaps • Sado-Masodub

I would never willingly pull this out at a cocktail party or anything, but that's not what it's for, is it? They set out to make a gritty, grim, loud, unpolished album, and they did the shit out of that. I can't really say that I enjoyed it, but by god did they accomplish their mission.

I once went to a noise show in the basement of a coworker. The final act was a guy taking a buzzsaw to a piece of mic'd sheet metal hanging from the ceiling. I enjoyed myself quite a lot, likely because it only lasted 10 whole minutes. There's a time and place for this type of music, and I really think it's better experienced live.

Очень сложный для оценки альбом. С одной стороны, его историческое значение, экспериментальность, смелость и абсолютная уникальность не вызывают вопросов. Это скорее художественное высказывание и исследование возможностей звука, чем традиционное музыкальное произведение. С другой — слушать его действительно тяжело. В результате я скорее понимаю и ценю этот эксперимент, чем испытываю желание к нему возвращаться.

If you are looking for a good healthy long term relationship I recommend the following. Firstly keep your initial dating to be low key and not flashy. Meet for a coffee, go for a walk, check on your values. If you feel compatible ramp this up a little, maybe the cinema, a meal etc. see how your potential date treats others, if they split the bill, get an idea of their likes and dislikes If this is good you are on the home run. Now is the time to invite them to a meal that you will cook. Get an idea of their tastes and select a simple but effective meal. Something you can cook from scratch, Make sure you have cleaned up a little, plump the cushions, maybe put an interesting book on the coffee table. If you can soften the lighting, do so, if not candles are a good idea. We;eat a good wine that might go with the meal, but don’t overspend. Make sure you have some soft drinks or non pretentious beer etc as well, perhaps overkill won’t work. As you serve the meal you need some good background music. Something that isn’t too bland or obvious but still shows some personality. I suggest Kollaps by Einsturzende Neubauten. If that doesn’t do it nothing will I didn’t hate this album but it is an acquired taste and one that there is a time and place for.

It's a nein for me, dawg

not afraid to say it, i'd be hitting this with another star if it were in any other language than german