Kollaps

i though the first tracks were intros and i thought it would be industrial techno untill i realised this is it... Peak "weird for the sake of being wierd" If you alienate the listener you can't be profound in my opinion. sure, music can be more hard to get into but it should at least try to invite a listener to try and understand you subcontext instead of having to write it so people can quote it from wikipedia and sound smart. this just sounds like an angry german screaming in a factory. Wierdly enough i recognized their logo but never heard any music i guess this album explains it. This "band" don't desrve the logo.

Upsetting

Strange industrial sounding composition. Not sure if I would really call it music since it is very different. It's interesting what they were able to put together and I suppose it is nice to explore the medium and all that but I didn't really like it very much. It just seemed annoying like someone jackhammering while you are trying to read.

Holy crap that was hard to get through. What a pile of shit.

I'm not sure how this ended up on the list, because it doesn't really seem to be music for much of the 55 tediously protracted minutes. This is actually the first album on the list that I refused to finish because it's just such horrible noise. This is the kind of thing preteen edge lords listen to in order to make people like them even less... But even they don't enjoy it.

Not sure this is for me. Understand the value and influence especially on someone like Nine Inch Nails. But a bit much for me. Struggle to listen to more than a couple of tracks

Wow that was painful! Hitler on a building site!

Tanz Debil (Debility Dance) 1.7 Steh auf Berlin (Wake Up Berlin) 1 Negativ Nein (Negative No) 0.5 U-Haft-Muzak (Detention Muzak) 0.2 Draußen ist Feindlich (Outside is Hostile) 0.3 Schmerzen Hören (Hören mit Schmerzen) (Hearing Pain (Listen with Pain)) 0.3 Jet'm 0.4 Kollaps (Collapse) 0.6 Sehnsucht (Desire) 0.1 Vorm Krieg (Before the War) 0.3 Hirnsäge (Brainsaw) 0.4 Abstieg & Zerfall (Descent & Decay) 0.2 Helga 0.1 Schieß Euch Ins Blut (Shoot Yourself in the Blood) 0 Negativ Nein" (live) 0.3 Rohrbombe" (Pipe Bomb) 0.1 Futuristischer Dub (Futuristic Dub) 0.1 Sado-Masodub (Sadomasochistic Dub)  0.2 Liebesdub (Love Dub)  0.1 Spionagedub (Espionage Dub) 0 Mikrobendub (Microbes Dub)  0 Gastarbeiterdub (Guest Worker Dub)  0.1 Rivieradub 0 Lünebest 0 Score: 0.304347826

Nope. Awful. Made it through 2 minutes of the first track, skipped to track 2, listened to about 1 more minute. That ain't music. Fucking dire.

That type of music is not my preference.

Awful. It's stuff like this that makes me think that the author wants me to quit this project.

Scheisseplatte

Wow hate this.

I appreciate the creativity and influence on industrial music, but I would be lying if I said I liked it one bit. In the final track there’s like a second of silence, I caught myself thinking “oh thank god it’s over”, but then they banged on metal pipes for 30 more seconds

2/10

Tough album to get through. Sounds like the music in a mixed media art installation. Some of the sounds are really interesting -- industrial or other odd sounds with a heavy dose of distortion and reverb. I think these guys could do a good job as sound designers for films in the sci fi or horror genres. Anyhow, I have no intent to ever listen to this again.

negative nein

W. T. F. I give 1 star, but that is for ME for sticking through this nonsense. Now I see why this sits at the bottom of the list...

Isso que é experimentalismo.Brutalismo na música ou algo do tipo. Difícil escutar, provavelmente é a experiência que queriam passar. Eu só não queria vivencia-la. TRN Medusa.

I respect the noise, but not enough to actually listen to it.

Oof

I can’t believe someone had enough conviction and confidence to record this and then put it out for the world to hear. Utterly unlistenable. Like having a drill bit carve into my eardrum. I might have preferred the drill to sitting through this record. 1/10

Would rate this lower if I could.

I know this one has its cult following and historical importance, but I just couldn’t get there with it. Kollaps feels more like an endurance test than a record I’d ever want to revisit. I respect the boundary-pushing and the influence it had on industrial and experimental music, but for me it was mostly grating noise without much payoff. I guess I’m supposed to admire it, but I just don’t enjoy listening to it. Sorry, this is a rare 1-star for me.

For me not enjoyable to listen to at all.

wtf is this

This is the worst thing I have heard.

No.

Fucking epic hoover song

Noooooo thank you

Man, this was just not any good. This album is just noise, and not even enjoyable noise. Every once and a while, an album appears that is clearly only on the list because it was experimental for its time and maybe influential to it's subgenre. I understand why that is considered a must-listen; this isn't a "1001 BEST albums" list, after all. But holy moly was this album a slog.

This was just noise to me. It’s like they attempted to see if they could put out an album with no music and see if people would listen to it. Turns out it would up on the 1001 albums to listen to before you die. Not sure if anyone needs to hear this before they die.

A big 'ol Fuck You to whoever made me listen to this and ruin my day Best Song: N/A Rating: 0/10 Stars: 1

Excruciatingly terrible.

Sometimes there's a fine line between "experimental" and "trash"

awful

No idea who this is. Lets see how we go. From the opener, sounds german and industrial. If it is like this the whole way i might struggle. Track 5 of 23 and yeah can confirm, this seems to to be it. Perhaps in 1981 it was pretty revolutionary, but Zappa played a bicycle on TV in 63 with more style than this. The Birthday Party shouted in a similar style sometime through the 70’s. Was it really that revolutionary? Early techno? Surely not. Electronic music has been around much longer, at least the 1920’s (theremin anyone). Jet’m best track for vague recognisability? Is the joke on me and these are all covers and i just am not musical enough to recognise them? Highly possible. Title track my favorite so far, if i had to pick one. I broke one if my rules and looked up the band before finishing the record. Ive been trying to get my own thoughts down before seeking validation or ideas elsewhere. Anyway i’m a bit bored by this and thought id look them up to see what might have been revolutionary about this first album. My poor attention span didnt het past the firat fact I saw, the singer is Blixa Bargeld. Apparently The Borthday Party saw him on TV on Germany shouting like them and he ended ip a fou di g member of the bad seeds. On his wiki theres a quote about this band where he essentially says he couldnt afford drums, piano, etc but he wanted to make music. That i can celebrate and admire. The album is not for me but more power to him for having the courage and inventiveness. The end tracks atart to be quite hypnotic African tribal drum like but if i wanted that i’d listen to the much more enthralling early 70’s album Niagara by the band Niagara (also German origins).

This was one of the most surprising albums I've heard, in a bad way. This was genuinely difficult to listen to, arguably some of the worst music I've heard. Every time I started to get into the rhythm of the music, it was torn away and replaced with the most grating, cringing sounds possible. Like nails on chalkboard, forks on plates, and general Bad Sounds. I feel bad for anything else I gave 1 star because those poor albums shouldn't be compared to this shit.

No

hated this, absolutely terrible

It's like the worst parts of a Velvet Underground album. Yes, am I a square for not getting this? Probably. This is too discordant and experimental for my tastes. The times it goes to a full song there's promise, but then the album dips into Halloween noise effects. Top tracks: "Tanz Debil," "Kollaps"

Lol. No.

I’m sorry you’re German. I’m sure that must be awful. I can’t imagine opening one’s eyes for the first time and immediately having a bratwurst shoved in your mouth and looking up to see your mother’s factory owner staring down at you, deem you inferior, and scream “YOU’RE GERMAN!!!” in that weird yelly language. No one should have to go through that. But you need to try to make something positive from that, not punish the rest of the world for your suffering. Be like that luftballoons girl. Great art can come from misfortune. Even something as terrible as being German.

Hard to listen to. Anxiety inducing. Shit.

Perfect for any occasion. Great accompaniment to a quiet evening reading or a hard working day in a factory. Particularly love Negativ Nein and Absteig and Zerfall!

Demo hammers. Breaking glass. Drumming on a steel garbage can. Tiger torch. Fun little scavenger hunt of job site noises

If all your kitchen appliances and power tools had a jam……it would sound better than this. Hard pass.

Someone must love this, but that someone is not me!

I did not like this

People who say this sounds like a drill in a metal bucket are wrong, it’s clearly a hammer drill going into concrete.

1.5/10

I didn't understand anything about Kollaps. It's one of the worst albums I've heard as part of this project, and it came as no surprise to me that it's currently #2 of the lowest ranked albums. I haven't yet heard the #1 worst album, but I shudder to think how awful that album would be to my ears after this one. This album had me questioning people's life choices. Why would a chainsaw be used? Why was there random screaming, or the singing disguised as shouting? Why did it sound like an actual drill was being used, or pots banging together? Why was there so much distorted feedback? And as for "Sehnsucht," I too can press the same key on a piano for two minutes, but that doesn't mean I should put that in a song. Nein, Einstürzende Neubauten. Nein.

God, this was truly awful. There is no wonder in my mind why this album is one of the lowest ranked in the project. An hour roughly felt like an eternity dealing with this absolute noise. Who could have possibly known that the random clanging together of found objects would not make for a pleasant listening experience? Well, we know now for sure, thanks to this album.

Sound effects for Halloween. Not music

Nie

When I saw this album on the list I was like "this is going to be unlistenable experimental music isn't it" 100 percent An assault to the senses, I want to start a petition to get this banned and added to the Geneva convention

some enjoyable moments off an album i never would have picked up outside of this exercise, unfortunately surrounded by some of the most annoying to hear nonsense on the list so far. if i can squint i can see some weird lil fellas making their version of a joyous noise, which is respectable, but not necessarily something i want to hear.

well this was... interesting to say the least i started losing my sanity a little bit halfway through when I thought I was listening to an ad for powertools rather than an actual album

I tried. I listened to every song, but it was just a very difficult experience. German experimental industrial is just not my thing. It sounded like a construction site in hell.

Herrie

Noopeeee wat een herrie

First one I didn't listen to all the way through, stopped after the second "song". Wtf is that??

yeah that's a no from me

Bunch of noise

This album definitely accomplished what it wanted to, but I just didn’t enjoy it. I love weird stuff in music, and this album was very weird and definitely very creative, I just don’t like the sound of clanging metal underneath a German guy screaming into an extremely low quality mic. I would have loved to love this album, my goal with starting this project was to broaden my music taste, but all I got out of this was a headache. 1/5

Annoying cacophony of noise mixed with screamed German words making this some kind of Experimental Industrial.

Это вообще не музыка. Это пока что единственный альбом из списка, который я не смог дослушать. Не заслуживает и одной звезды

I get why it’s one of the lowest rated albums.

Wow. There was literally nothing about this I enjoyed. Worst album I've listened to so far, hands down.

Strong argument to be made that this is the worst music I've ever heard.

Tough one. These Germans need to chill. I don’t understand how a mind creates or enjoys this.

Absolutely horrible. Made it through one song. Why would anyone sign them to a record contract. Deserves a zero.

could not get through this one. sorry. Made sure to ask Apple not to play more "music" like this.

That was excruciating. Second lowest rated album on this entire list….? There’s something WORSE?!

🤷🏻‍♀️

Yeah, no.

Not for me at all. Hectic and random sounds paired with shouting in German.

Listening to this was torture. You could not pay to hear this again. I can’t even classify this as music. At least Scum by Napalm Death had the decency to sound remotely like music. This was just noise. For almost an hour. I’d give this 0 stars if I could.

👷‍♂️

I did not enjoy this

Yea. This sucks.

This is the worst thing I have ever heard. It causes almost an immediate panic attack.

wow this is the worst one 1/5

Absolutely excruciating

Esto no es para mí. Parece un conjunto de sonidos aleatorios con gritos. Además, el alemán no ayuda a que las canciones suenen amigables. De los peores discos hasta ahora. 1/5

Hmm. Is this better than country, the worst type of music to exist on this list? I’m not too sure whether it’s better. At least with country I don’t relate to anything they’re on about, but at least I can appreciate the music to an extent. This, however, was just noise and a shouting German. I like industrial music and have appreciated the other industrial bands that have been on the list so far, but I won’t be listening to this again.

39 minutes have never felt longer. I will say this, the instrumentation is certainly unique here. It's rough, abrasive, and utilizes items you wouldn't even think of in order to create these sounds. Add in the shouting of German lead man Blixa Bargeld to really complete the unsettling and confusing sonic landscape here. (Side note: I've learned that Bargeld co-founded Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, which explains a LOT) A record like this really makes you question what "music" really is. I'll definitely acknowledge the impact this record may have had on the industrial music genre as a whole, but golly that was difficult to listen to. Only a small handful of albums among the 500+ I've already listened to here can make that claim. I rate based on my own merits and overall listening experience, but I can't help but go with the masses here.

Must have been a heavy one last night, it felt like a bit of a blur. I came to with the taste of rust in my mouth and the throb of metal on metal rattling through my ribs. The morning sky was the colour of wet cement, and when I rolled over, I realised I was lying on a pile of bent rebar. A crane swung overhead like a lazy predator, its hook creaking in rhythm with the pounding somewhere deep in the construction site. Berlin. Or at least a version of Berlin where buildings are born screaming. I stumbled between stacks of sheet metal, every step setting off an accidental percussion section — clanks, scrapes, and the hiss of steam that might have been a warning or just the city breathing. Somewhere in the scaffolding above me, a man in black was bashing a steel plate with a hammer, his movements slow and deliberate, like he was tuning the air itself. Then it hit me: this wasn’t just a construction site. This was Kollaps. Not a recording, not a performance, but a living, shuddering organism. The bass wasn’t coming from a speaker — it was the ground itself groaning. Voices echoed from tunnels, not sung so much as chiseled out of the concrete. Every sound was sharp enough to cut the skin, yet arranged with a precision that made it feel… inevitable. A rusted shopping cart rolled past on its own, rattling like a snare drum. Somewhere beyond a wall of corrugated steel, someone was sawing through metal piping, the shriek blending perfectly into the next “track.” I had no idea where the musicians were — maybe they were the cranes, the bulldozers, the pipes. Maybe they were the wind between half-finished walls. When I finally found an exit, I realised there wasn’t one. The fence was just another loop in the sound. Berlin had swallowed me whole, and I was trapped inside the album — a place where collapse wasn’t an accident but an art form. If Kollaps is music, it’s music that doesn’t need you to listen. It will keep happening, hammering and grinding, long after you’ve left. That is, if you ever do.

I listened to two songs for about 7 seconds each and realized this is pure nonsense and if I told them that it was nonsense they would give me a "you just dürnt get ish maan" how do I let this suggest a record program know to never send me "industrial rock" ever again.

If you like that one episode of Spaced where the guy from Little Britain says “Rabbits, rabbits, rabbits, rabbits, rabbits” then you’ll love this album.

8/11/25 - listening at work. industrial, experimental, noise. challenging listen, did not finish 1/5 stars

At this stage of my life, I can’t say I find much meaning in this music.

This is merely noise, of the pretentious kind. 1/5

Round of applause for Dimery for putting this on the list. Well done mate you are so clever.

This is the kind of noise nightmares are made from. Fucking hell! I get what it is they're trying to do with the experimentation, but there's nothing truly redeemable about this "album". No real musicality to be found, just yelling over over whatever they could find to bang on at the hardware store. Screeching high end that pierces your eardrums. I'd be interested in hearing what, if anything, people find enjoyable about this record.

It gets a 1 as it is. It gets a -1 for making me think my headphones weren't working on the last track. Thanks for the Home Depot ambience guys.

I just didn’t like it. Not my type of music. What was the language?

Want a headache?

I tried. I tried really hard. Even read the background notes. Just…no. No thank you.

Can I givethis a -10 perchance? What is this doing here?

Wow. Maybe the worst album I’ve listened to. Had to turn it off half way through. Made me feel yucky. Wouldn’t consider it music. Some may consider it art. I consider it trash.

I got through two and a half songs and had to quit…life’s too short.

lasted till the second track 0/5

Unfortunately I could not listen to the whole thing. From what I heard, it has some occasional musical moments I like and I find it interesting that the band used found objects to create the sounds in the album, however I personally cannot get past the extreme industrial nature of it. I can still understand why people would find this album cool, but it's just not for me.

the AUDACITY to say someone NEEDS to listen to this. 1 star because I can’t go lower.

No

Ouch! That was physically painful. Pneumatic blasts, screeching grinders, loud drilling, and banging is more noise than music and not at all enjoyable to me. Vorm Kreig was the least horrible noise. I’d like my hour back on Kollaps. (0.3*s) Please don’t make the List again.

Great...let's use poor radio reception, power tools, and sheet metal to make music (now I know where Jesus and the Mary Chain got it from). Sounds like they may have actually been trying to collapse some buildings so the band name is fitting. Only some angry Germans would come up with this. Lands a list spot for being original but who the hell would put this record on for fun? Not sure dub step has gotten that much better from these roots but it doesn't hurt my ears as much...0.73 stars for causing Blut in my Schiess.

Nope. Hard to call this music most of the time. Not interested in listening to a couple Germans yell and bang pots and pans for the most part. Thankfully a good portion of it is minimal enough you can tune it out but what a waste of an entry. Definitely didn't need to hear this before I died. .53 stars

This one’s not for me. I actually like Einstürzende Neubauten in general, but Kollaps is just too much. Too raw, too chaotic, too little actual music. I respect the idea and the experiment, but I don’t want to listen to it again. 1/5

Poor. Just noise.

Nope

Certainly something

Getting this album combined with Ozzy Osbourne dying might be the worst day of my life.

Nope.

Have you lost your God Damn mind? This is like putting a Taylor Swift, a Cat and nails in the dryer and calling it music. What the actual fuck? This list is going way way off the rails.

Seems like a record can be either unlistenable or something to hear before one dies, but not both.

Not for me

No thank you

First album, and I could barely make it through the first song. At least I know where every punk’s favorite tattoo come from now.

i had a very strong feeling i wasn't gonna care for this just by the cover alone. my intuition is yet again proven right this is experimental, that much i can say. it's pretty much just a german guy screaming and shouting over power tools, clanking metal and some drums. a few of the tracks are interesting, but most were too abrasive for my taste i can't find much good to say about this album unfortunately. i don't think this was necessarily "shit" or "just a bunch of noise" or anything. this just ain't for me

Impressively awful. People banging on sheets of metal and making weird noises. If that's music, I'm going to set up my own band with that sheet of corrugated iron in my back yard.

pass

WTAF

You know that pattern in my reviews where sometimes when this site gives me a really awful album, it follows it up with a really good album? Well, with Kollaps, this site did the exact opposite by being the follow up to Rocks. And yeah, It is a terrible album. It tried to be unique by incorporating various found items into it's sound like metal plates which basically means that this album was recorded with literal garbage. This of course, was not executed well as this feels like some music that a little child would make with a lot of toys at their disposal rather than by actual professionals. This album still is incredibly annoying too with bad vocals and constant irritating sounds making this one of the worst albums on this site. Best Song: Tanz Debil Worst Song: Lunebest

Total crap.

I am glad that is over.

Awful

Life is too short 1

Seriously. I’m here to discover different music. This doesn’t qualify. Sure, so nice percussion patterns here and there, but it’s just not for me. Well, at least I can say I have experienced something different.

this shit sucks

Sucked

I like the cover art.

Easily the worst album on the list.

Why is this on the list??

mucho ruido, muy primitivo

First (and only?) club show I ever played in Germany was opening for some Neubauten acolytes. Entirely found percussion, mic’d up with lavalier mics connected, wires strewn everywhere, total chaos. We were paid an absurd amount (plus a Kiste of bier, very important) and ducked out maybe a song into their set (not very punk rock of us). This was in 1995, so the idea of nontrad percussion and industrial melodic sensibilities was on the wane, but still maybe presented an idea of what the future could look like for live music. Ha, sure thing kid. Despite having more than an average familiarity with German, I never spent much time with Neubaten. Their logo seemed like a badge for badasses and I figured I would have my time with them at some point, but it never came to pass. Einfach zu hässlich für mich.

Wtf?

Nicht fur mich, ich hasse diese album gern

1/5

Too experimental

Cacophony of hard sounds, too experimental. 1

Aj mina öron!

Yikes. I know I'm in trouble when the album has a track with so few listens it's not even listed. Construction noises? Boy is this not for me. I'm not sure I'm making it through. It is soooo long and nothing has been good. An assault on my ears.

This some industrial noise that I almost like, but those grating unmelodic yelling that I don't understand, pulls it down. This is live music for sure. I really wished I liked it more, but it's random noise more than the complex syncopation and melody I like out of music like this. I do not appreciate the beauty in texture and timbre in discordant instruments like these artists do. Gonna have to give it a 1 cause just I don't know what they're going for, and don't think I'll enjoy the process to figure that out.

trash

q cojones

I couldn't get passed the power tools song. Either should you.

Favoriten

I tried. I really did. It is just noise.

I don't think this so my style if my first artist is Conan Gray

Ongeïnspireerde geluiden

I didn’t enjoy listening to this album. 1/5

The hardest spot the difference test: power tools or German shouting? (Entschuldigung)

I knew this would be a 1-star about 4 seconds into listening. I'm happy for the people that are into this sort of thing that this exists. Maybe it's a good noise album? I am not qualified to judge. The real testament for me on this is that I listened to it to the end. Even if I found the experience deeply unpleasant, I let all of this pass into my brain for a time. For that, I consider myself a hero.

Did not like this at all. I don't like noise rock, made even more so in a language I don't understand.

I pressed play and immediately regretted all my life choices. This album gave my ears tetanus. It’s an hour of sentient metal pipes and malfunctioning appliances jamming while screaming German in a condemned warehouse. I get that it's supposed to be industrial, but so is asbestos. Just chaos cosplaying as creativity. The only Kollaps here was my will to live. Spins: 1 Playlist Additions: LOL

Honestly what in the world is this. Pushes the boundary of what you can call music. I'm glad I saved the 1 star rating for junk like this. I made it 3 songs and had to stop - Well... this one isn't going to rate well globally

Exactly as expected.

Can I also get paid for my morning poops? One track was just someone screaming while flushing their toilet. The rest of the album was similarly, them just recording some noise while screaming. Just take a microphone and a toddler down to a construction site, and you too can appear on a list of albums to hear before you die! Kollaps was a nice breakout, the beat goes really hard. Candidate for worst album. Best song: Kollaps

Assault! Assault!

Absolutely atrocious. I didn't think anything would be worse than Duck Stab, but this now holds the title of the worst album I've listened to.

They have lost it. 1/5

I really wanted to be wanky and pretentious and say that I loved this and it doesn't deserve to be the second worst rated album on the 1001 Albums site. Unfortunately the "music" didn't do much to convince me otherwise. That's if you can call it that. This album seriously pushes the boundaries of what you could classify as music. Let's list some positives. Firstly, it wasn't THAT bad in my opinion (yes, that is a positive). Secondly, I actually think the high pitched shouts screams are very impressive. Thirdly, at least it was different and somewhat interesting. I'd probably take this over some generic rock, a 75 minute long rap album, or boring soul. At times, I really do think you'd be hard pressed to call it actual music. Art? Maybe. Expressionism? Probably. Just noise? Most people would agree with that last one. It's very harsh, very abrasive, very industrial sounding. I'd probably come back to it, but only out of curiosity's sake more than anything. I was going to be a bit funny and give it a two but I'd just be lying to myself.

Not even music. Industrial noises and German screaming. Feel free to skip this one with extreme prejudice.

This whole album is just noise. I read the name of Einstürzende Neubauten a few times already and was actually curious what kind of music they make, but I was totally turned off when I listened to this album. Their other music is actually listenable.

Why?

So not my thing just noise

non so se dare 1 o 2... questi hanno preso ispirazione dai lavori di carpenteria che avevano sotto casa... sicuramente originali.. poco orecchiabili.. musica non elettronica, proprio industriale

1 out of 5. I wanted to like this one, I really did.

no thanks!!!!

Sure I know people say this is “innovative” and “influential” for industrial music, but honestly this is just noise to me. I’m not seeing what fans of this album are.

Absolute rubbish like the things he was banging !

The punk music hiding behind the seemingly random noises doesn't come close to saving this for me. If I could give it a lower score I would.

It's not for me.

hmmm I thought I'd like this but I really *really* don't

At least I had fun.

пас)) звуки электродрели и немецкий текст это то чем я в аду буду развлекаться

I’m proud of myself for listening to the entire album, which I described as “if you gave a bunch of elementary school kids with no musical talent random instruments and told them to make noise, along with some grunting.”

Beyond awful. Made it through about half the tracks.

Not my vibe

I have to rate this 1/5 (and 1/10 if we used 10 stars) but I must say that this kind of experimental music takes courage as it in fact explores the limits of what music is. Most of the album is not, but my favourite track on it, "Kollaps", not only isn't bad. In fact, I enjoyed it. This is more of a performance than a musical album, and given the tragedies of the 20th century, the German history in particular, this effort makes sense. It's bad, but I do not hate it.

Noise

Too harsh for me, did't like the vibe of the album, too industrial for my taste 1/5

The sounds of a construction site accident..could be use as a mode of torture

After reading some of the reviews, I thought, "It couldn't possibly be that bad." Well, it is. There are some stretches of interesting parts/sounds, but, by and large, it is just noise and not even pleasant noise. As far as I can tell, it hasn't really inspired any notable artists/works so why it's on this 1001 list is truly a mystery to me.

I listen to a fair amount of experimental, noisy music. This is not music

Rating: 1/10 Had a few moments that was actually decent, those few moments actually had some melody to them. The rest of this is truly heinous and unlistenable. I respect experimentation but this is a German guy screaming with repetitive and annoying percussion over it.

WHY IS THIS ON THIS LIST this is not music

Noped out pretty quick on this one. Way harsher than my ears can take today. Gonna listen to Writing On Airplanes by Neil Drumming instead.

Meu ouvido não é penico pra escutar uma merda dessas. My ear is not a chamber pot to listen to shit like that.

shockingly bad

just irritating noise

None for me, thanks.

I don’t even have the words to describe what I felt

Wtf...I can get down with avante garde but this sounded like a burger stumbling through trash cans in 1981. Idk maybe it got better I didn't get past track 2

What the hell was that

No no no no no!!!!!!

This should have been album #1002 so I wouldn't have to hear this while I'm alive. Take the German yelling of Rammstein and add the absolute worst parts of Kraftwerk and mix someone tossing aluminum garbage cans into each other and this is what you get.

Awful. Like putting a bunch of toddlers in a room with a bunch of pots and pans.

Nah.

no thank you

Noise

This sounds like sort of stuff that would accompany experimental performative art. Which I like, but listening to this is annoying.

Would give it zero if I could.

I understand the other reviews.

Lot of noise, pretty bad

2/10 - It was just noise. Not great for pre-tournament music. Best album with a jackhammer tho

Jesus christ

This is the second album like this on the list? Laibach wasn't a good enough representation of this garbage, we had to have two? Just baffling decision after baffling decision. I'm really dreading hitting submit every morning. Being at least halfway through now, I'm too stubborn to give up, but my average rating is steadily sinking below 2.9

I always like to look on the bright side: It can't get any worse than this. I've reached the bottom of the list (and almost certainly of any album ever recorded). There's nowhere to go but up now.

nope

What the fck

Industrial noise / found sound. Schieß Euch Ins Blut sounds like it might contain the Wilhelm Scream.

This hurt. Not for me.

Original. Daring. Experimental. Unlistenable.

Thoughts before listening: I'm not really sure on this one too be honest. Industrial goth maybe? The cover doesn't look like that's what this would sound like, but for some reason that's what I'm associating with the band name. Review: So my memory served me well here, but now my ears are mad. I definitely had the sound pegged on this one, but this is a tough listen. More of a sound collage than any sort of traditional asking structure. I imagine this has a pretty low average score on here, I'm leaning a 1 to add to the pile on.

Answers the question “what if kraftwerk was atonal and bad?”

Mitä ihmeen pukeliääniä se tämä on?

No thank you.

nie

I'm sure there is some artistic justification for this, but it's hard to listen to.

My dog left the room. I like some odd stuff but a construction site in NYC is more pleasant to listen to than this.

I’d give this zero stars if I could.

I wanted to like this and I just didn't. Maybe on another day. Stopped listening halfway through the second track

Ugh, no thank you. This was bad and wasn't even ironically interesting. Couldn't finish it. I wasn't aware that industrial metal included trashcan lids and anvils.

So, yeah -- Art is Art -- but not all art is for me. I know people really think highly of this band but I don't see it. On a few songs I could get into the industrial nature of the songs but I couldn't get into it.

Not enjoyable.

I don’t mean to be that guy, but my kids can do this. And they do it just a little better.

Can hardly call this music - it’s just noise

Listened to the 13 track original release. As if the German language didn’t sound mean and nasty enough, they had to scream it and have annoying industrial sound effects and repetitive beats. I did not enjoy any of this. It may be the worst album I’ve heard so far.

Was für ein Schrott.

Nein.

Lost in translation. Apart from a few samples of recognizable music and some welcome silence, this was unlistenable to me. Makes sense. I google translated the title… “Songs From My Disturbed Sheet Metal Shop”.

I have learned to check how many tracks were on the original release of the record to make sure I do not have to listen to more tracks than I have to.

Somewhere between an interrogation room and a tray full of eating utensils being dropped on a tile floor.

i aint listening to all that. i'm happy for u tho. or sorry that happened.

Listened to this while playing Lisboa. I lost. I definitely blame this album. I'm all for weird shit...but this was just too much. I liked moments...but overall...absolutely not essential listening.

0 stars. What was that

Fuck that..

Horrible racket. How could this be one of the "1001 Albums..." except as a warning?

The title track saved it from the coveted 0-star rating. 0.5/5

That sucked I won’t lie

Hard no. Literally noise. Not for me.

Weird shit. I guess I understand the appeal, but I listened to 2 songs and called it.

I gave song one a chance and a few seconds from a couple others. I couldn’t imagine what worldwide location would be its equivalent in 1001 Places to Visit Before You Die.

Almost 600 albums in and just got my first German album a couple days ago. This one was much worse wow. It definitely deserves higher than the lowest possible score. Using actual industrial machinery definitely makes your music more hardcore than anything I’ve ever heard. It’s unique but still it’s just kind of a fun fact. It’s so hard to listen to. It’s like if the concentration camps were turned into an album. 23 different torture devices. I did like the SpongeBob song but that’s about it. It feels more like a showcase of different skills/textures that could be used to make actual music than music itself. Rating: 1.4

This is just noise. I don't often give out 1s, but I wish I could go even lower on this. What a waste of listening time.

This album was awful, but I'm still glad I listened to it. These guys did manage to turn a bunch of industrial noise into something that is undeniably music.

horrible

Garbage.

No

I kind of love seeing how angry this makes everybody. It’s hilarious how something so strange just sets people’s brains ablaze. Now, let me preface this by saying I’m not going to go on some long tirade as to why this is the worst thing I’ve ever heard. But I’m also not going to try and justify the existence of what is, and I mean this in the nicest but most genuine way possible, an abomination. This isn’t good. And I can’t even begin to think of what aspect of this might appeal to me. It’s sort of like the harsh power noise music that people like Merzbow make. The man has hundreds of records, many of which push the boundaries of what we know to be possible in our “normal” conventions of music. It’s both remarkable and shameful. Can you imagine taking Woodpecker No. 1 back to even just the 1960s, or god forbid further back than that, and making people listen to it? You might permanently alter the course of musical history. But none of that historical context is going to make me enjoy what I’m hearing. I think the execution is impressive. Creating your own machines and relying on pure electronics to create the music, and resorting to just bashing shit together for sound is unique to say the very least. But it lacks humanity. It doesn’t sound like music made by human beings with working organs. I feel it’s as inorganic as music can probably get. Like scraping on a dirty chalk board in hell. If the world was completely swallowed by an all-consuming machine, this is what would play as everything faded to black. The screams and wails are genuinely a little frightening. All of this really sparks a question in my mind? What pushes someone to create something of this nature? Surprisingly, this came out in 1981. So I’m wondering if industrial noise music has some sort of punk aspect to it, where it’s created in response to what’s popular, and exists solely to oppose that in every way possible. Except this pushes that desire to the ultimate length. Where one foot is fully off the cliff, suspended in the air, and the other is barely hanging on. Just waiting to slip and fall as everything comes crashing down. All of this might mean nothing, but I think it’s fun that an album I couldn’t be paid to listen to again makes me think about all of this. Either way, it’s up to the individual on whether they think this belongs on a list of essential records. I doubt the percentage of people in support of this is very large. Rating: 1/10

was expecting Rammstein, but got school kids with stolen plumbing equipment

They were saving this one

ooof

DNF hated this

okay

Pre-listening thoughts: whyyyy WHY WHY WHY did we have to get this album god no I have been dreading this since I started this challenge ☹️ the poop colored cover greeted me this morning and I let out the biggest sigh ever like come ON bro. Yes I knew eventually we had to get this album. Yes I’m still upset it’s here within my first 150 albums before ANY of the top rated albums on the site. Post/during listening thoughts: calling this an “album” or “music” is generous. This could induce a panic attack in someone who has never suffered anxiety a day in their life. This could make a blind man wish he was deaf too. This is like that one video where they took “How Bad Can I Be” from the Lorax and replaced every “bad” with a metal pipe falling. That was better than this. If you have never heard this album here is how I would describe it: there’s a German construction crew in your ears dismantling your eardrums but they keep hurting themselves with their equipment so they scream quite often. This is about to falsely inflate my ratings for other albums due to just how garbage this is. Can I give this a negative score? 0/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: no and I pray for every user on this site who hasn’t had this album yet. At least my time with it is over. Fav tracks: oh my god. I have to add something to my playlist. This just hit me. Oh no. Oh god. Least fav tracks: every. Single. Sound. That. Was. Made. On. This. Abomination.

Honestly not quite sure what I just listened to. There was a 10-second span where I bopped along, then something that sounded like a mix of a chainsaw and an alarm clock started going. I'm glad this was on the list, but that doesn't mean I liked it.

audio torture

Jack hammers are music now...Steh auf Berlin was just awful Negativ Nein and U-Haft-Muzak were at least palatable Schmerzen horen just stops in the middle of nowhere and moves into an awful grating sound of Jet'm I don't think I could listen at home because my dog would not be able to handle that. Super repetitive and not in a good way Kollaps wasn't so bad but then the weird metaillic wind The screaming at the beginning of Schiess Euch Ins Blut is what I am feeling the whole song!

Some of this is ALMOST music. That's hardly anything to get excited about.

Lol This reminds me of Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain, but at least those songs had a pop structure underneath the sound of glass being run through a table saw sound. This is complete garbage. In fact, including this on the list pisses me off because so many truly great albums are not on it. 0 stars if that were an option.

If the contents of a garbage truck formed a band and decided only the least talented among them would get to play and sing, this is what I imagine it would sound like. I suppose it could always be worse, but yikes.

Get a grip koffi, what is this absolute shite you're feeding us. Sounds like one continuous track because it's so hard to tell when some German students stop making noise and then start again. Who the fuck was sat listening to this shite in 1981 in Berlin and thought it was any good. Low 1.

Tough old listen this. It’s very avant garde but definitely errs more towards the “disappearing up your own arse” end of things, as opposed to “that’s kind of interesting”. It’s abrasive and there’s nothing even remotely resembling a song on this. Which is kind of a dealbreaker for a music album. I’m hosting Christmas diner at mine this year, so as a social experiment I’m gonna throw this on. See what happens. Go all Berghain. Have no inclination to listen to this again, but I’m glad I’ve listened to it precisely once. Best track: 🤷🏻‍♂️ Worst track: 🤷🏻‍♂️

Christ. Went back to this after The Young Gods album. Do not recommend. Just bad vibes and cursed albums. Can't even do a review as this isn't music. Avant-garde nonsense. Sounds like a breakdown and not in a good way.

Unlistenable.

Was it bad? Absolutely Was it the worst thing I've heard on here so far? No, far from it 1 ⭐️

Not for me. Got a headache

Það er hægt að setja ýmislegt á hljómplötur. Tónlist er eitt. Tilraunakenndar barsmíðar á ýmsa hluti er annað. Verkfærahljóðupptökur er þriðja. Svo er meira. Þessi plata var þessi tvö síðarnefndu. Eiginlega bara allt nema tónlist. Ég heyrði það strax og hugsaði: "Úff, þessa plötu þarf ég bara að þrauka í klukkutíma"

🙉

I finished the album because I'm no quitter, but what the hell is this nightmare-inducing stuff? Sometimes I'd experience those brief flashes of awe at whatever random sounds they managed to turn into music, but my question is... Why? Why use all those interesting sounds and instruments and make them sound like noise instead of anything even remotely melodic? And why would anyone willingly put themselves through an hour of something so unpleasant? I will never understand noise rock. 1.5 stars (0.5 for their undeniable creativity)

questo è ufficialmente l'album con la valutazione media più bassa di tutto il sito, e devo dire che se la merita. aiuto. gesù salvami tu.

Очень своеобразно. Они используют нестандартные инструменты, по типу бутылок или железных листов, из за чего звук получается грубым. Звучание мне не понравилось, слишком агрессивное для меня

Woof. I’m sure there is merit to this album. But it isn’t for me.

Noise 1/10

Noise

He empezado de forma positiva apreciando este álbum, de hecho la primera canción me ha parecido original y hasta divertida. Luego me he dado cuenta de que quedaban aún 50 minutos de disco. 1 estrella, pero, PERO, me parece que merece un puesto en esta lista. Es algo original e interesante aunque para la mayoría del planeta sea insoportable (la segunda canción del disco empieza con un solo de un minuto de un puto taladro).

Terrible. This LP is if someone asked “what if we make an album where it’s just a lot of industrial noises that hurt your ears that have no musical qualities, vocals that have no rhythm and are just screaming half the time, and clashes that somewhat resemble percussion?” And instead of being told, “no, that’s a terrible idea”, they were given a studio.

I am a bit disappointed that I knew before listening to this that it was the lowest rated album on the list, but I don't think it would've made a difference. I can understand it holds that position, but there have also been other albums on this list that could also be deserving of similar sentiments. While bold and definitely something else, it just doesn't turn out very well. Very harsh and dissonant in general, with lots of saturated screams and singing, mallets, and all sorts of percussions and noises. Barely anything resembles a traditional "song". I ended up turning it off half-way through since I felt it wasn't my thing, and it didn't show any signs of heading in a different direction.

Finally the worst rated album on this site but is it deserving of that position? Can it be worse than Kid Rock's "Devil with a cause"? First things first, the first track is really jarring and dissonant. Abrasive is the word I would use and I nearly turned it off right there and then. The rest of the album is a mixture of industrial noises and other effects. Sometimes i thought the rhythm patterns were quite good in tracks like "Kollaps" and "Rohrbombe". Maybe as a sample it would be good? All in all it is still a 1 star album but an interesting one. I'm guessing it was influential in some way and I always give brownie points for trying something different. Still better than Kid Rock!

I write this paragraph before listening to this album. Prior to this, I listened to four albums that were 4s in my book. Will this album make 5 in a row? Or will my 174th album reviewed break the streak and drop down below 4 or break the streak and achieve a rare 5. I have to admit that, based on the title (“Collapsing New Buildings” according to Brave's AI search), my expectations are not great. Having not read too much about the band beyond their name and their "experimental and avant-garde sound", I am hoping to be pleasantly surprised. After trying to listen to the album I can only rate this as awful. I only made it into the 6th song. I felt like I was walking through some modern art exhibit where this album was playing in the background. Dreadful. 1/10

Get fucked! Sorry. What a waste of my fucking time. Luke will disagree with me on the value of music like this. And I enjoy certain ambient music but this was a joke.

Absolute nonsense. Nothing in this album. Nothing to say. Get a grip.

Ear vomit

Nope

Oh god... What??

Didn't get this one, unfortunately. It was a bit of a struggle to get through. 1.25/5

this is next level crazy underground shit i was not prepared for i dont know what to do

Punk and industrial from Germany. Loads of German yelling on a building site. Certainly different. Feels like performance art. Screaming in an aquarium. Would work great in haunted house. They also do awful covers. No melody, screaming over industrial instruments. No doubt influential in the early 80s, but too removed from actual music for me.

literally industrial, and i dislike rammstein

you could get any information you wanted out of me by using this album. i’d probably fold during the first track.

I'd like to think that somewhere a foley artist working on an industrial dystopia film lost his master reel. This isn't it. It's worse.

I hated this. I couldn’t finish it. It was just noise. And not the good kind.

I fully understand why an album like this is on this list, and honestly, I respect it more than some other albums I’ve heard for being its own thing. That being said, I don’t have to like it at all! It’s a German dude screaming over sounds of power tools for an hour. That’s it.

People sporadically shouting in german while smashing plates. What the fuck.

Je comprends pourquoi cet album a un score si mauvais. Peut-être que ça a eu un gros impact sur la scène noise/expérimentale, mais c'est vraiment dur à écouter. J'ai honnêtement de la misère à voir ce qui rend cet album intéressant. 2/10

Jesus wept. ZERO Stars.