Reviews (page 6 of 9)
AUGHGHGH
Worst shit I’ve ever heard
Esta es la cosa mas pretenciosa que he escuchado en mi vida, no tiene sentido que esté en una lista de los mejores de la historia. Horrible, ni siquiera lo pude terminar.
absolute time waste, 1.6 if being generous
Wtf. Tried getting through it but had to give up. I think this list could be conflating weird/experimental with good. Not only the worst album of this list but truly might be the worst album I’ve listened to in my life
If I could rate 0, I would
shit emoji 💩
trochę tragiczny, kompletnie niezrozumiały dla mnie
soundtrack for eastern european horror porn
Soul sucking. Soul crushing. Just..... why?
Stop shouting
Fucking terrible. The worst thing to ever pull, extremely stressful while in a 20 person line at Sephora under fluorescent lights. Poop from a butt.
Wtf?
Exécrable
1/10
This mf just put anything on this list, huh.
I understand this album’s purpose on this list, but can’t say it was a fun listen.
Not often there is German music. Experimental west-berlin punk, how very niche. I seriously doubt I'll listen to this again. The use of jackhammer is interesting.
Wildly low-fi, underground German percussive noise. The only track that resembled music was ‘Sado-Masodub.’ I had to skip through every track to get through this disaster.
WTF?? Noises.
Nope, sounds like smashing trash and yelling
I never thought I would hear something worse than MJ Cole. My sincere apologies to him because his music is like water in a desert compared to this awful noise. This damaged my hearing on the lowest volume. I think this music -if you can even call it that- I think has the ability to convert its victims because imagining hell without this playing in the background constantly is impossible and I couldn’t think a more effective way for someone to extract government secrets from me the making me listen to this longer then four seconds. I understand that some of these albums are on here because they are so different and unique that you’ll remember them on your death bed. I can promise with utmost confidence that I will one hundred percent remember the time I waisted on this album and weep knowing I threw away time I could be doing much more enjoyable things. For example swallowing glass, a root canal, open heart surgery, or murdering a family of adorable kittens in cold blood.
Another win for the deaf
So bad. Jangly banging noise and yelling.
Dog shit.
Did I try? Yes. Am I glad I tried? Yes.
This isn't music, it's art! (Not in a good way)
What the hell, It feels like I'm listening to random noise. It's veeery loud and for me very hard to listen on headphones, and definitely I can't listen to it while doing something else. It's just too disturbing. I don't like it and feel it. Maybe just not my type.
poronguita
Industrial noise-punk. It's apparently a groundbreaking and very influential album, but it's not something I enjoy listening to; in fact, I'd classify most of it as "actively unpleasant," which may be the point. Great potential for horror movie soundtracks, but it's not going on my playlist.
Eu queria dar zero, mas não tem essa opção 🥲
German industrial? In this economy?
I did not realize that I too could be an accomplished musician, worthy of international acclaim. I have produced all of these sounds at some point in time in my house and in my garage. If only I had recorded them and muttered inane things while doing so.
I tried it, I understand why it’s on here. It’s bad
That's the biggest load of rubbish I've ever heard. Take ten Aspirins straight away.
Insoportable. Discos como éste hacen que uno quiera mandar la escucha de la presente lista al carajo.
Please don't do this to me. 0 starts should be an option.
Oh dear, just oh dear. Sounded like the band went out and just recorded things happening around them like smashing stuff up, drilling stuff, shouting etc and then put some "vocals" over the top of it. Very strange, didn't really enjoy it but I can say I tried..
I have absolutely no idea what to expect from this. I did a little bit of research on the band so I know it's probably going to be a bit noisy but otherwise who knows what I'm about to hear. An interesting tidbit I did discover is that Blixa Bargeld, the lead vocalist of this band, was a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds for 20 years, and I just so happened to listen to Henry's Dream yesterday. I'm probably not going to like this as much, but that's a fun coincidence • From the first couple of tracks, this album is *loud*. Tanz Debil builds to a very loud climax and immediately Steh auf Berlin starts with a jackhammer blasting your ears out. Blixa Bargeld is also absolutely screaming into the microphone, which is peaking with every word. • I'm now up to U-Halt-Muzak and I think this is the most tempted I've been to stop listening to an album so far. This song is probably the best so far, purely because it's an instrumental, but it has almost nothing going on outside the constant kick drum and occasional ear-bleedingly loud noise • Off the bat, Kollaps is the most musical track so far. It doesn't really develop much for the rest of the song. It's probably the best song so far, but that's a pretty low bar. It's also by far the longest, so it's a bit impressive that it doesn't ever devolve into chaos like many of the other songs have. • Sehnsucht features a chord in the background that reminds me a lot of the Mother Brain boss music from Super Metroid. The main key note that plays throughout it sounds like it was played without a metronome or anything to keep it anchored to a tempo • I just finished listening to Helga, and that's where the original track list finished. I really considered calling it here, but at this point I've already listened to 35 minutes of this, I may as well see it through • Rohrbomb is definitely the most rhythmic track on the album, it's almost a shame it's not developed into something further • Futuristischer Dub sounds evil This album was unique. It's industrial in its purest form, without question. I never want to hear anything from it again. I've never been so tempted to turn an album off, and I'm actually a bit surprised I managed to make it all the way through. There's definitely a different vibe in the Stahldubversions tracks (Rohrbombe on) that works a lot better for me than the base album did, but unfortunately that's not enough to save Kollaps. From looking through the reviews, this album used to be the lowest rated on this site, an honour now held by Throbbling Gristle, another industrial group. From this listen, I can't say Kollaps was undeserving of that title. I'm sure there are less interesting albums on this list, and for some people uninteresting can be worse than bad, but clearly there's something with this album that didn't work for over half of the people that reviewed it. I think Kollaps is deserving of its place on the list, but probably not for the reasons it actually landed here. It sounds nothing like any other music I've listened to, and I appreciate its work in expanding the list's genre pool (again, I can't stress enough how unique this is compared to the first 60 albums I've heard). I will never listen to it again. Favourite track: Kollaps?
No me gustó
1,001 albums that should never have been made. 0.00
Was zum Geier istd as??
Please make it stop ....
So much noise.
Bro zici că-i muzica de satanisti ceva rituale îi foarte ciudat albumul
One of the few albums I couldn’t get through. Cool that it came out so early, that I’m sure it influenced industrial which I quite like, but this is just too much noise and not enough song for me.
If you haven't listened to this yet, it obviously isn't the worst thing Germans have ever done (it's slightly less obvious if you have listened to it), but it's the worst thing that isn't related to that particular series of people and events. Unless it is actually related to that which would somehow make sense. I will say that it's sort of ignorable in the background. I attribute this to the fact that I'm an American and the Japanese have not joined in this aural attack yet.
Extremely tough going. Tbh, i couldn't listen to it for more than a few minutes, it was just too confrontational and experimental for me. I respect it for what it's doing, but this is not for me. 1 star seems unfair, so I will rate as did not listen.
I’ve listened to 1,027 albums, every single track. But forty seconds into “Steh Auf Berlin,” I had to stop. It’s the first album I simply couldn’t continue. Trash. Deserves negative stars.
Just noise, not music
Come on
So wegweisend. So inspirierend für so viele Künstler. So experimentell. So anders. So unhörbar.
German industrial music! I am going to be so for real this is really bad study music. Very interesting! But bad study music. I think I am currently listening to a power drill?
On one hand this is a hellish soundtrack to a bizarre time in Germany. On the other hand it was one of the least enjoyable things I’ve ever listened to
Utter pish And absolute struggle
This was a hard listen. Barely music, it's industrial, mechanical, and abrasive. There's moments that are cool, like the backing of Kollaps, which doesn't really need to be 8 mins, and Jet'm. But overall, I would have difficulty recommending this to anyone in any practical scenario. As much as I try to give everything on this list a chance, my head was definitely hurting by the end of this one.
pra ouvir furadeira eu escuto a obra do meu prédio
This album isn’t for me, and I’m not convinced that it’s for anyone else either.
1981. Noise music that made my ears bleed.
Interesting and glad somebody made this cause it's art but very primitive. There needs to be some first lowest form of sounds and music. This is as good of non-music as there is I guess.
No one should ever have to listen to this. Pure dreck.
Nahhhh sorry this is a little too creative for me
I made it a 1.75 songs in and it was a valiant effort, if I do say so myself. I'm good.
Congratulations, this is the worst album on this list! I’m only a little over half way through and can say that definitively.
what the fuck????????????????????????????????????
Even I found this to be a bit much...I'm all for weird german electronic music, but I'll take Can and Neu! before this...
1 star any% wr
Listen once, skip through, never look back. If I could give this negative stars I would.
This morning I listed to the album and went to the DMV. The DMV was the more enjoyable of the two.
I can totally understand why this album is one of the most disliked projects on the entire 1001 albums to hear before you die list because this thing is out there. Arguably even moreso than the Throbbing Gristle pick that is on the list, but some will definitely not agree with that. This album feels like the ramblings of a schizophrenic man that was locked in a studio as he banged on just about everything he could to get out of the room. While this may be one of the shorter entries in the whole 1001 list, it definitely felt like one of the longest because of how bad it was. I get that you can call this "experimental" or "avant-garde" but I can also call you a snobby little shit for trying to convince me you even want to enjoy this. If you couldn't tell I thought this was a waste of my time and not something I could see myself ever really returning to ever. Happy I am done with it and I hope the people that do enjoy this seek help immediately because they are wrong.
This sounds like Martin Bormann got high as fuck on uppers, broke into a Black n Decker factory and let his rage spill out...
Noises, 0 value of music.
Absolutely not. The sounds made my brain want to stab and murder. Awful.
1/5 Deadass the funniest ear-torture I've ever been subjected to. I love the ambient neighbor waking you up at 7am with a drill noises, those were my fav. I'm sorry, I'm not enough of a music snob to appreciate this.
I mean.... come on. Is this even music?
No
No
German (pejorative). It's just noise. Unpleasant noise.
I lasted 30 seconds into the first track. Not for me.
Album 1043 of 1089 Kollaps - Einstürzende Neubauten (1981) Rating : 1 / 5 This one came about as close to a waste of my time as anything I’ve encountered during this project. I understand experimentation and I’m open to challenging listens, but this felt like electronica for electronica’s sake - noise without payoff. There was nothing here that pulled me in, nothing that made me curious to see where it was going, and nothing that rewarded sticking it out. Instead, it felt aimless and exhausting, with each track increasing my awareness of how much longer it had left to run. I know this album has historical significance for some and is admired for its industrial experimentation, but enjoyment-wise, it offered me absolutely nothing. I listened. I tried. I waited for it to click. It didn’t.
215/1001 Einstürzende Neubauten - Kollaps Heard before? ❎ Revisit? ❎ Couldn't make it past 3 songs....
Went into this with no idea what to expect. Its a little much for me - I love experimental music, and some of the sounds were interesting. But not something I can see myself enjoying casually (or at all, I had to turn this one off).
Not good.
i like to think that i "get" this kind of music that said, this sounds pretty bad
Well, it's not boring. But also, what the absolute fuck??
Power tool ahh song
Definitely not for me.
i'm sure this was very influential but this album did actual psychic damage to me.
0/10
Wasn’t sure if noise cancelling was broken in the middle of London. Lots of scattered ‘ideas’… maybe. A tough listen at 8am.
I make one joke about the German language in my reviews and I'm rewarded with an album fully in German. Gave me a headache regardless Fave track: Schmerzen hören. Rough translation based on my A1 German level - it hurts to listen. Didn't like the track just thought the name was fitting
Listens: 1.5 Standout Tracks: I would say probably one or two tracks could constitute as "standout", but I couldn't point at them given the German song titles, and with the album being 20+ songs and almost an hour, I couldn't keep track of anything. I am pretty surprised to not see this on the bottom 20. Oh nevermind, I just looked it is there at second worst album on here. So yea, this was terrible. It barely constitutes music. I can hypothetically get on board with the idea of making music using unconventional musical instruments. I have some experience with genres like glitch hop, and I am a big fan of the industrial rock genre, but there's a huge gap in what music from those genres is representative of, and whatever... this is. And with this newish feature on the site of being able to see your next album before submitting your review, I now have the pleasure of reviewing two bottom 20 albums in a row. Next up, The Birthday Party's Junkyard.
Awful, not my type of thing at all, literally headachy, pretentious hipstery artsy punk but jesus, maybe because i don't speak German but I cannot listen to this.
jumpscare music - worst shit I’ve ever heard
Car crash underwater Blending silverware
Omg no what is this 😭 seriously the worst album I’ve ever heard in my life
Terrible, erratic, jarring noise. Hated the echo. Would not listen to again.
No va
Angry, raw and abrassive but overall very unapologetically chaos. 6/10 [KEEP*]
Kamala.
Muito barulho de ferro velho. Deve ter uma turma que gosta, mas não me agradou.
Hard pass
This is what we fought two world wars for?
girl......... if i could give it a 0 i would.....
Barely made it though this... Two people bang trash cans together while Hitler yells at me... No fucking thank you.
I mean….I get it. It’s abrasive and noisy and all and I think the back half of the album is at the very least listenable. But those first five or so songs are genuinely unlistenable.
1 Star (2/15)
I give this zero stars, even though the app forces me to give at least one.. It isn't even music. It's just a terrible noise.
Drill sounds, and only mentally disturbed people like this.
That was.. something
This one was tough to listen to. The tracks with industrial noise were a slog, and even the actual songs were hard to want to finish. This has got to be one of the worst albums on this list. 1/5 Definitely won't listen again
Einstürzende Neubauten let me "Schmerzen hören" untill it felt like "Hirnsäge". It only took a few minutes to "Kollaps". My "Nein" for this album is really, deeply "Negativ". I'm glad I found that the original 1981 album was only 38 minutes instead of the 56 listed on spotify.
Noise. Not a good listen. If I could give this zero stars I would
construction noise I was not ready for
What the heck was that???? I can’t even call it music.
Been a while since the generator has given me an album this horrendous
Noise... deliberately made. Something cool i guess but a long way from my taste.
There's no enough words to say how much I hate this album. All I will say is torture is not entertainment.
Uh… Hell Yes, this is awful! Thank you for bringing this to my ears! This truly is an album that one should listen to before death. The low-bar in the “Alternative German, Cats-in-a-Bag ” genre has been set.
I'm not sure this album qualifies as music. So far song 1, Tanz Debil, is nothing but trash can noises and the occasional German word for "shit". Steh Auf Berlin is a drill, metal drums, and distorted radio noises. There is also a lot of just screaming in general. "Gastarbeiterdub" is by far the most interesting song as it reminds me of foundations of electronic music, but then come the drills again. It doesn't help my review is this album that I don't know German, but the album's "rough punk" sound and style of "music" isn't helping me want to understand it in any capacity.
Absolute chaos
Wouldn't really describe this as music, just noises. Got to the 4th track, declared it absolute shit. DNF.
1/5
I think this is the first one that I started and just couldn't get through.
Even speed listening 15 seconds per track didn’t save this album; again there should be the ability for a negative score rating
Noisy
2/10… experimental / industrial / *1981
Walk past a german construction site with angry workers if you want to hear the live version of this album. Words cannot explain how bad this is. 1 Star is waaaay too generous.
You gotta be sure to leave room at the bottom of album lists for things like this. It's just awful. It's worse than the spy v. spy album. It's worse than the proto-industrial album. Because now it's loosely industrial, plus distorted German screaming and some literal shrieks. It is not suitable for entertainment purposes. There may have been one song towards the end of the album that sounded like music.
Not my cup of tea.
What are we even doing here...
This was annoying. 1/5
Wow, that was a long 56 minutes. Whilst these guys were pioneers in industrial/noise, it doesn’t make it any easier to listen to! Drills, clanging metallic sounds, constant screaming and yelling (in German, naturally), angle grinders and distorted electronic noises. There is some relief later in the album with the instrumental ‘dub’ pieces, which you could see as an influence of people like Trent Reznor. As a piece of art, I’d rate it highly, but as a listening experience, hard to recommend. 1/5 stars from me.
The only sledgehammer I want blasting in my headphones is Peter Gabriel’s. JFC no no no.
Unfortunately this album was very much not for me and I did not enjoy this listening experience. I can appreciate what they were trying to achieve with trying to sound more punk and experimental but it did not hit for me. It sadly just sounded like a bunch of random electronic machine sounds and banging on metal plates which was not my fantasy. I can see how this could be enjoyable for some but it did not hit the mark for me. After a while it just sounded very repetitive and just like noise instead of music to me.
Could this be any harder to listen to? I tried… I really did. This should’ve been the last album on the list because then if it killed me listening to it (which it almost did) at least I could have said I listened to all the albums I was supposed to before I died. In all seriousness, kudos to this group for being sonically experimental. It’s just that the sounds are so uncomfortable and unpleasant that any value in the experimentation is drowned out by the discordance.
I’m not even sure how to review this one. It may be the first time I didn’t listen to something all the way through. I try to make a good faith effort but I was done halfway through.
What the fuck?
This album was hard to listen to, I am not a fan of the industrial sound. I get how revolutionary it was at the time, but yikes!
German industrial clang
у меня и так болела голова, а тут еще и этот кошмар. ну спасибо
Caveman's death grips
I really dont have the words to describe this. It was noise, a lot of noise. However towards the end it didnt sound as bad. One of the tracks I nearly enjoyed. It was crap but better than some of the crap this exercise has thrown up.
Remember when Stomp was a thing? It's like they had a nervous breakdown. Or when you're a child and run at a metal fence with a stick, but the playground is haunted. I think this was music used during psychological trials to see what happens to the brain when steelworkers are given too much overtime. This really is shit. There is no other word for it. Is it meant to be art? As a side note, Taylor Swift was yesterday's pick; only here could someone listen to that and this sequentially. Spotify data analysts must be baffled.
просто пиздец музыка из ада... лоботомия... сковородкой по голове... предсмертная агония... альбом душевнобольного
i hope this is satire
What the hell is this crap? Zero stars if that was a choice.
Second lowest rated album on this challenge after the Throbbing Ghistle album. This one is very avantgarde, and industrial with unbearable shouting and custom built instruments like some metal things hitting to each other. It's a very German album in a sense that it's not fun, it's noisy and kind of scary. I understand German so it was at least a bit interesting to listen to what he was shouting. I was listening to it while there was a construction going on in the neighbour's so it felt like I was listening to this horrible noise in stereo. As a consequence I have headaches now which isn't a surprise. At least it is a tiny bit more interesting than the Throbbing Ghistle album so it deserves to be the second worst album here. Still unbearable of course.
Hör mit Schmerzen? Já, einu sinni, en það er alveg nóg fyrir mig. Þetta eru vissulega hljóð, en ekki eru þau áhugaverð.
Fav: Jet’m Least Fav: Steh Auf Berlin Typa shit James Sunderland hears when he’s fighting for his life against the monsters in Silent Hill 2
Will the construction on this street ever end?!?!?!? I'm sick of this noise :'-(
Tough listen. Was unable to make it through it.
Nowhere does it say the albums necessarily have to contain music. This album does not contain music, it contains almost 40 minutes of an angry German man shouting on a particularly noisy building site. Call me old fashioned, but I'm just here for the music. If you like this kind of thing, then more power to you, but personally I find it all phenomenally juvenile and uninteresting.
Collapsing scaffolding just isn't my ASMR kink.
This was hot
What the... I listened to as much as I needed, which is enough to say I'm glad I never heard of Einstürzende Neubauten before today, and I'll never hear them again. I don't mind _some_ Lärmmusik, but not as much as these guys do. I recognize their right to label this as music, and encourage everyone to at least try to make music, but I cannot promise to listen. 1 star for the effort.
I keep having to say this about albums included on this list. Making random noises with things is not avant garde music making, it is noise. If you can take those random sounds and make them into something that sounds like anything other than random noise then you may have made music. Until then keep it out of my ears.
It's weird, I am a famous enjoyer of industrial music/songs where European men scream at me, but this just aggressively did not do it for me. Maybe it'd be better with more of a melody? Or possibly I'm just not their audience.
Kollaps - Einstürzende Neubauten 1/5 - Sounds like starvation and a jackhammer. Tanz Debil 2/5 - Brother. Steh auf Berlin 1/5 - A song for the big construction enjoyers. Negativ Nein 2/5 - A song for the big drowning enjoyers. U-Haft-Muzaf 1/5 Some more screeching. Schmerzen hören 2/5 - Hermit Shmatzen. Jet'm 2/5 - Slightly audible. Kollaps 2/5 - We kollapsing with this one also too long. I gave up, I just got more annoyed the longer this long album went on (not sure if that was intentional Helga 0/5 - AIN'T NO WAY THEY MADE A SILENT SONG.
This hurt to listen to, there's something thoroughly unsatisfying about the texture of this album at points. I swear anybody who rates this positively is just being a contrarian for the sake of it - and that's the only album on the list I'll say that for.
Somehow, this was not as bad as Throbbing Gristle. Maybe because there's at least a beat on many of these tracks? I mean, no sane person is ever spinning this album up for background music while working or jogging or hanging out with friends, and I don't think any sane person genuinely thinks this is pleasant to listen to, but I at least understand how some people could find this interesting. It's creative, unlike anything else, gave some weirdos ideas for sound effects in later works, and there was some amount of skill involved. All that said: no thank you. This was hard to listen to. I appreciate that these weirdos found new ways to make weird sounds, but in no way was this enjoyable. Part of me wanted to make it through the whole thing so I could give it a 2, but I'm not that much of a masochist. I made it through most of 15 tracks and that was enough of a headache for me.
Scheiße
Umm. This is music?
Weniger als 1 stern geht ja nicht, mir gefällt eigentlich nur Tabula Rasa
Worst music ive ever heard
This could be used as torture for your enemies.
That's not my taste in music - music? - uaaah
I was waiting for this to get good and it never happened
Not for me
Not for me, not much music in there, more samples of noises (like banging pans, blenders, jackhammers) and german language. Couldn't pick out any melody or rhythm anywhere a bit too experimental for me
I'm pretty open minded when it comes to music, but this was virtually unlistenable. There was no discernable melody throughout the entire album, just...noises. Sounded like a Hitler rally over heavy, repetitive drum banging and random sounds (drills, metal clangs). Not one track actually sounded like a song in any sense. I had Coldplay yesterday (who I'm not a fan of) and I'd take a thousand Coldplay over this. If I could rate 0 stars I would.
I don’t get it. The music feels like what you would get it you let kids play with the things they find in a Home Depot. With German sung/spoken over it.
no
This is sounds, not music.
Just noise for the sake of noise. I'd rather go yell at clouds
A jackhammer, in fact, is not a musical instrument
what the fuck is this
what the hell
désolée mais non. je comprends le fait de vouloir avoir une variété de sonorités dans la liste d’albums (et encore jusqu’ici la variété ne s’étend pas a tous les styles/origines de musique mais soit), mais bon. si je voulais écouter ce genre de musique je vais me poser en face du chantier le plus proche quoi. DNF par respect pour mon ouïe.
Nope
I really wish this one didn't come in my ears. Absolutely horrendous, discordant rubbish.
I tried to find some redeeming features, I really did. There were moments where I thought I understood it, the beat of industrial machinery. And then I'd be out of it again. I think I could probably listen to a single track and get along ok with it, but a whole album is hard going. I think the only reason I'd revisit this album is to annoy someone else.
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?!
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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.
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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