Kollaps

Excuse me, what the fuck? It is laughable that the author of the book heard this album and was like “Everyone needs to hear this!”

This is garbage

I have always liked this debut album, in spite of its infamous low global score on this app. It's a wonderful and evocative clatter of metal platters and industrial distortion, whose edge and singular poetry haven't aged a day. The longest cuts ("Tanz Debil", "Steh Auf Berlin", "Kollaps", "Abstieg Und Zerfall"...) are the best moments in the original tracklist, and if the other selections are not as wild and lively, they still function as useful moodpieces bringing a lot to the album's flow and cohesion. I don't know, maybe I'm a sucker for hypnotic percussions on scraps of metal and other "found objects". The ones displayed here do even remind me of Balinese gamelan music at times, admittedly a far different beast, yet one with the same relentless drive in its best moments... Which is why I just can't understand people who find this music off-putting, very honestly. My best guess is that they're also repelled by the gritty German vocals, which even encouraged some reviewers on this app to compare the latter to Hitler's speeches (!). Ugh. That's such an ignorant and cringeworthy take I don't know where to start here... You think the f*cking n*zis would have condoned such quote-unquote "degenerate" art? I can live with people having vastly different different aesthetic requirements than the one I have, but some of those people should try to make the two brain cells they have left connect to each other before opening their goddamn mouth. Einstürzende Neubauten have had a long and very interesting career after this debut, with albums sounding miles away from what *Kollaps* had to offer. Not saying everything is essential, far from it, but that discography is worth checking out for anyone interested in industrial, post-punk or art-rock endeavors. Oh, and Blixa Bargeld has been a part of Nick Cave's adventures with the Bad Seeds for a very long time, which makes him quite an important figure in music history. So I guess having at least one album by his main band in a list such as this one makes sense somehow... So just for this one album, I'm gonna click on the five-star grade, even if my own mark for the LP is actually closer to a 4/5 (which translates to a 9/10 score for more general purposes -- 5+4). As that other reviewer said, let's all try to save the turtles here (and drown Kid Rock under a flood of turds). I might disagree with this particular reviewer about some other artists or genres, but people of goodwill should unite for the common good here. Next step, we end global warming, find endlessly renewable energy sources, solve the problems in the middle-east, destroy imperialism, neuter religious fanaticism, outlaw economic exploitation, and stop wars and famines everywhere. You gotta start somewhere, right? Number of albums left to review: 120 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 384 (including this one, most probably) Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 225 Albums from the list I won't include in mine: 283

Unbearable

So imagine you're listening to your neighbors building a shed in their backyard. It's one of those pre-fab metal ones that's made of steel. They're hammering away for hours, yelling and using power tools, and sometimes they stop for a beer break or whatever and you can hear the music they're playing for just a brief second before they get back to their noisy bullshit. Even if you put headphones on to listen to something else, you can't hear anything but these fuckers in their yard working on this dumbass shed. At the end of the day, they're not even really doing anything interesting anymore. They're not even talking anymore. They're just finishing the rivets and still hammering away. And you just have to sit there and listen.

10/10. Forget about what other people are saying about this album. THIS is truly a must-listen album. There are far too many unremarkable albums in this 1001 album project. This is not one of them. This is incredible, and revolutionary.

Influences of Kraftwerk are pervasive throughout

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What? No. No. no no no. This was awful

maybe not hitting my playlist everyday, but some really good stuff. the serge gainsbourg cover Jet'm shows some humor, which is always endearing.

Just no

Anyone giving this a 5 is probably heavy into BDSM, owns the entire catalogue of Nietzsche's writings, and survives off of the roaches they find in their basement.

Never was it truer that you have to be in the right mood but it's spectacular.

Hm. I feel like I'm pretty tolerant of industrial/experimental music, and really enjoyed being introduced to Laibach through this collection, but this is pretty hard to enjoy and/or appreciate. I'm not sure if it's the thin/tinny sound of the mixing/production, or the fact that everything's in a foreign language, but much of the album felt like a lot of grating noise rather than songs per se. I'll give them credit, though, for creating most of the sounds and instruments themselves, and for the range of their noise-making. Most of the time I was listening to the album I felt like I had the soundtrack to an experimental stop-motion animated movie ("Mad God" comes to mind). (And to be fair, I only listened to the original album's 13 songs; I didn't have the patience or fortitude to continue on with the additional cd reissue tracks.) It's hard to know whether to rate this as two or three stars, honestly. I didn't enjoy it enough (or really at all) to feel like it's three-stars-worthy, but it feels wrong to give an album two stars when it's clear that they knew what they were doing and had a concept going, however annoying this is to me. Kudos to them for succeeding in their avowed goal of creating "the most unlistenable album ever" (according to the 1001-albums book)!

I can't say I really enjoyed this but I also didn't mind it either. It's sounds like a bunch of Germans went into a hardware store and made some instruments and then started screaming and yelling while playing them. They do sound better than my description--at least they don't have the nauseating repetition of industrial music.

If you have a beef with a neighbour you share a wall with, you can definitely blast this to take it up a notch.

I do love Einstürzende Neubauten, and this album is fine, but I’m not quite sure this album belongs on this list, although it is sort of understandable from an angle of “this one thing was a trailblazer to do a certain thing a certain way”. Their album Tabula Rasa is my favorite of theirs, it keeps a delightful balance of chaos/noise and structure/harmony, and in my opinion a better choice for this list. I saw them in concert in 2004 or so and that was a great and memorable show.

I’m not opposed to noise based music but there’s gotta be something more to it. This felt like the band heard Black Angels Death Song and scrubbed it of any melody and just recorded it over and over again. At least the songs were short.

I like noise in my music, and I like some industrial, “experimental” noise rock. Kraftwerk. Can. This, though, was too far on the noise end of the spectrum. I guess all the noises count as music because there’s a steady pulse? This was unlistenable. Not for me.

Did not enjoy this. Seemed like a German attempt at NIN but not good.

nope

Industrial noise. This is... experimental art. U Haft Musak made me feel like I'm just waking up from drinking too much the night before. The next album as the question that I'm asking about this album.

I think i have a good idea of who to call for a soundtrack if i'm filming (a) a transylvania based blair witch trial, (b) a dark horrow version of Run Lola Run or (c) an artsy Nazi snuff film. I loved the fact that the liner notes attribute a contribution of "noises" on the album. It's decent at times, Kollaps is pretty good, but its a bit of a tough listen and not sure how it would fit into something you want to listen to multiple times. Interesting to experience.

Could’ve died without listening to this

More noise.

I had no clue what this was so I was excited to listen to it this morning. I was NOT disappointed! Loved this!

There was an unironic use of what sounded like a smoke detector beep at some point. This is probably sick sample fodder though. I appreciate on this list that it is not another rock album.

Putrid. Just a lot of noise.

started out kinda interesting, was more of a "how long left??" kinda album by about halfway

I managed 3 tracks and then NOPE'd out. Was giving me a headache so I had to quit, If I could give it less than 1 star i would, but I can't so I shan't

I’ve been pretty strict with myself on this list. Pushing myself to listen to all of everything even if it’s really not my thing. I got five tracks through this and, seeing how many more there were to go, realised that ultimately life was too short. I listened to it while stuck in a traffic jam on the M6, which at least afforded me time to daydream about other things I could be doing. Like having my wisdom tooth removed or being kicked repeatedly in the knackers.

Es ist ein Album, das jeglichen musikalischen Charme vermissen lässt. Die Klänge sind chaotisch und unstrukturiert, was es schwer macht, irgendeine Form von Melodie oder Rhythmus zu erkennen. Es fehlt an den grundlegenden Elementen, die gute Musik ausmachen, und hat so wenig mit Punk zu tun wie Roland Kaiser. Stattdessen wird man mit einer Kakophonie aus Lärm, Industriegeräuschen und unverständlichem Geschrei konfrontiert, die eher Kopfschmerzen als Hörgenuss verursacht. Wer auf der Suche nach echter Musik ist, sollte dieses Album meiden.

4/5. Another experimental album right after another, but hey I guess that's randomly decided. I think I resonated with this one more than I expected to despite it being in a language I do not understand. It is much more abrasive than other experimental albums I've heard and the use of makeshift instruments is an interesting addition that only adds to the music, not take away. The screaming vocals creates a scary and dangerous atmosphere like the final speech of a world leader before the bombs drop. Best Song: Steh auf Berlin, Negativ Nein, Kollaps

Har ägt albumet både som LP och CD. Var lite besviken när jag köpte plattan 1988. Lät ju inte alls som Halber Mensch eller Fünf auf der nach oben offenen richterskala. Men man lärde sig att lyssna på den och sedan årtionden tillbaka så älskar jag skivan. Ska se dem live för fjärde gången i höst när de kommer till Stockholm. Lite kuriosa, jag har deras logo tatuerat på min överarm.

You might as well just stop beside a construction site and listen to it...

Get past the weirdness and the shouting and there are some decent tracks here. The second half is another album added for the 2002 re-release, it's less experimental, but also less interesting IMO. 3/5 for the re-release, 4/5 for the original album. Favourite tracks: Kollaps, Abstieg and Zerfall

No way. Less than 2 minutes in to the first song and I know this is not one of the 1,001 albums you need to hear before you die. Unless this is like punishment for those who have lived a wicked life, no one should ever have to hear this "music" again. Found sound albums are definitely something music critics like more than real people. I thought modern art music was supposed to be excluded but this seems to be treading a fine line. It's hard to know when one crappy "song" ends and the next crappy "song" begins. The only thing that could prevent this album from being a 1 star would be if it was one track long. Every song is worse than the last. Some of the songs at the end of the album are at least short and contain long sections of silence which is an improvement over the random assortment of noises that make up the rest of the album. This album is the Jackson Pollack painting in regards to people claiming that any idiot could do this. That is one of the worst things I've ever subjected myself to.

Is this a joke? It's like standing quite close to the tip while someone throws a load of scrap metal into a big box of scrap metal. I don't know what to make of it to be honest. At times it's interesting I suppose, in the way that The Intense Humming of Evil is interesting. But mostly it's like something scientifically designed to hurt your ears.

Sooo not for me. Weird noise, no melody, may be innovative and interesting but not something I would ever listen to by choice. Couldn’t even get through it.

Throbbing Gristle was better.

Day 29 - June 30th Art. It's abrasive, chilling, and uncomfortable, and it does it perfectly. 4/5

Does sound like Hitler and his boys hitting the local hardware store. Could see it working as music for a film or something. Not very enjoyable but 2 stars for uniqueness.

Interesting. Strangely hypnotic! Punk music with hand tools.

Unlistenable

some pretty good early industrial

This is the first album I couldn’t make it through. I felt like I was being trolled.

This is terrible but in a good way and after Nick freaking Cave this is actually awesome. Obviously influential to the industrial music that comes after.

A mind bending effort using a unique approach to their craft. All and all though not within my wheelhouse.

i mean it's a lot of cool sounds, but it's not for me.

It’s not them, I’m sure. It’s me. But still.

I don’t wanna work just wanna bang on my angle grinder all day!

Boiled the piss of old white guitar shaggers, so five stars for that alone. Not bad, either.

Gjgfubvf hkrididkfbf

Not sure about this one

weird af. what is this album

50% the absolute origins of modern dance music, 50% utterly unlistenable Teutonic screaming.

I do admire this, but I don't enjoy it.

This feels more like an assault than a listening experience to be enjoyed and picked over. And you know what? As a piece of art to disturb and disrupt, to undermine the very foundations of rock music, it is absolutely vital. I've never heard anything like it. To be honest I don't think I want to hear anything like it ever again. However, as a bracing series of aural confrontations I can't fault it. There's even a splash of deadpan humour here, with a laughably wonky cover ('Jet'M') stuck right in the middle of the album. How to rate this? It's ambitious, different, provocative and sui generis. Five stars on that basis, minus one for being borderline unlistenable.

Having lived in Germany, sometimes Germans love weird things just for the sake of being weird. To me, this is a really violent version of Ross Goeller’s music. Reading the reviews, I’m sure a live concert would be an experience you’d never forget. For listening on my phone, I’ll take other choices. Pass.

Wegweisend

Alkupuoliskosta ei tarvitse puhua.. Se on sitä mitä nähdään seuraavilla albumeilla... Loppupuolesta.. Noh experimentaalista.. Olis voitu pohtia soundi niissä harjotuksissa ja välttää nolo väläytys albumilla.. Välillä myös paussia.. tiedä loppuuko musiikki.... Ei saa antaa raippaa siitä.. pojat pohtivat... Onko koskaan liikaa pohdittu....... ole mahdollista..

Pretty dang neat and cool and avant garde for the time 👍

Noise af

Fuck you for putting this here. You’re a fucking painter for a living or a modern sculpture enthusiast. No one needs to hear this before they die, though I bet a lot of people do.

Super industrial, sharp, tense

Context matters. So it’s important to think about what Germany was like in the early 1980s when asking, “vat der fuhrk?” The Cold War was hell on so many levels. I would like to believe this album represented some sort of protest against the whole East v. West, mutually assured destruction dichotomy. In my limited understanding of the German language, though, I think the title of one track loosely translates to “shit in the blood,” which…just, huh?

Looking for the line between noise and music, they must have gotten spun around and lost the horizon. Awful.

They took the idea of noise rock but left out the rock.

More noise than music

Come for the can-banging, stay for the drills! This was different, I'll give it that. Some of the sounds were genuinely unpleasant to listen to, as in ear pain. But I sorta, maybe enjoyed some of the -dubs at the end of the album. With all that said, though. I think 2 is the best I could do. If I could pick and choose tracks, maybe I could get to 3. But that's not the world we live in. We must listen to these albums. In their entirety.

i think this album does a fantastic job of displaying that not everything on vinyl should be classified as music

The wild industrial percussion is definitely the highlight here for me. I love when bands use found objects for percussion. I can see the influence on other later industrial that I love like Nine Inch Nails. The vocals are a bit grating though.

This was worse than Spy vs Spy. We’ve got builders next door doing work. This reminded me of listening to that for an hour.

Terrible. Worst album on this list. It's experimental noise essentially. I could scarcely listen to a few tracks.

I was excited because yay another industrial but I forgot boring industrial albums exist too

This was cool - a lot of it is more like motifs or experiments than what a typical listener would call a song but the sounds and energy are visceral to say the least. I read a bit about Einstürzende Neubauten (Collapsing New Buildings) - seems like their later work is less abrasive, I'm curious to check it out sometime.

Fuck everything about this. Music for the type of people I hate the most.

Not listenable

German industrial? On my birthday ;) Can a guy be so lucky The lead singer was also in the Bad Seeds for two decades, which makes this inclusion a lot less surprising. The book entry also draws direct comparisons to Throbbing Gristle & Faust, fellow "sonic terrorists" that I've already come across thanks to this list. This is definitely the least musical of the bunch, and therefore is not popular on this website, to say the least. The consensus seems to be that Kollaps is a bunch of freaks banging on pots and pans, but that's not ENTIRELY accurate in my eyes. The ritualistic proceedings of many of the tracks carry a sense of dread, as though they're the opening ceremonies to something awful and unspeakable. The low-quality recordings and abrupt ends to the tracks further add to the wrongness of this album, like it was never meant to be released. The cherry on top is the album cover on Apple Music; it's slightly crumpled, like a hasty photocopy of a used record sleeve. I definitely hört with schmerzen, but I didn’t hate it. 2.5 HL: "Tanz Debil", "Steh Auf Berlin", title track

This feels like industrial era Tom Waits, except it’s dialed up to 11 and made 10 years earlier. There’s no way he didn’t take inspiration from this band when making albums like “Bone Machine” and especially the grisly, metallic “Real Gone.” That being said, “Kollaps” is as raw as punk can get, with random metal objects being large parts of the instruments used to back the hellishly distorted vocals. In a way, it’s as punk as punk can get, with the title track exemplifying that stronger than any other here. As a whole, this thing is vicious, it’s as stripped back as punk music can be, and it’s forward-thinking as hell.

I want the person that made this 1001 list to go to jail. In what universe should this be considered a top album? It's as if a lobotomy made music. I'm glad I could contribute another single star rating to the worst album on this list, at the time of writing. 0/10.

Áhugavert kaos. Ýmislegt í hljóðheiminum sem minnir mig á fyrstu Depeche Mode plöturnar. En meira kaos. Miklu meira kaos. Áhugavert.

better than van halen

In the past when I have said this is the worst album I have listened to, it is usually because it is dull, uninteresting, boring or downright derivative. This album however, is none of that. What it is however, is a collection of the worst possible songs humankind could create. Think about your favourite music, your favourite genres, your favourite styles, this album is the complete opposite of all that. The genre of this music should be called torture chamber and the artists that made it should be subjected to it forever. I don’t ever think I will hear an album this bad again in my lifetime.

So interesting to hear once! Industrial as fuck

i respect it but i dont want to listen to it

HELL YES. Metal plates, drills & other power tools, giant water bubbles, tape recorders played on fast-forward, plastic barrels, huge springs used as bass strings, guitar noises that you can barely tell are guitar, and Blixa Bargeld's demonic screams. This is not top-40 radio-friendly pop music, this is industrial in its purest form: raw, brutal, and jarring. The lyrics speak for themselves: "Hear with pain, hear with pain, hear my wounds, hear with pain." The first 6 tracks all appear on Strategies Against Architecture '80-'83 (albeit in a slightly different order) but there were a few I hadn't heard before (including the "remixes" taken from Stahldubversions, since current playlists are using the 2002 re-release that includes those). As the first proper album from EN, though, this definitely deserves its spot on the "must hear" list. If you're one of those "ugh, can't listen, 1 star!" people- congratulations, you didn't get it. And if you're one of the subset of those reviewers who could literally only come up with the name of 1 famous German to compare Bargeld's voice to? Shame on you. Get out of your tiny English-only cave, expand your horizons, & go listen to some Falco or Kraftwerk, or maybe that Rhabarberbarbara rap that's been trending lately.

Angry I have to rate this a one. One is very generous. Why was this noise recorded? And more importantly, why was this noise on this list? Dumb.

Why?

Wow. This was a challenging listen and I think that’s by design. This is abrasive, confrontational, and ugly. I really enjoyed it.

Absolutely horrible and I cannot understand anyone pretending to enjoy that.

Well I guess this is what this is all about finding out what other folks consider to be music that they like.

Not so bad

Does anybody honesty listen to this for pleasure? I feel like this was something created by the Nazis during the Holocaust to see how much audial torture Jews could withstand. Somehow it escaped from the camps and has lived another day to make us all say “wtf”. Some parts weren’t as torturous, but still I have nothing good to say about this album.

Could barely get through 20 seconds of first three songs then turned off. If shit like this is on here and something like Nysync No strings attached isn’t on here I will be furious

“OMG it’s over!” I audibly gasped as another song came on shuffle once the album ended. Not many redeeming qualities for this one.

Never gonna get this hour back. Listening to Kollaps be like: https://youtu.be/mMh9A_4u2ic?si=BbPioCxtCP1270kV If you told me this band was from East Berlin it would make more sense. Gotta credit the resourcefulness to even make instruments out of the Berlin Air Drop packages. I’m not cool enough to get in but this is all they play in Berghain, isn’t it? The lesser-known German Fourth Reich: nothing but a capitalist-driven psy-op to make shit music that’ll make the communists go crazy. The Berlin Wall stood like five years longer than it should have just because of this noise. Does anyone else randomly want to watch a WWII movie now? It all comes full circle. One of the band members was also a member of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.

This album is a car crash. I don't mean that figuratively.... It sounds like a literal car crash. The quiet dissonant tone of a vehicle approaching quickly followed by metal scraping against concrete only to be interrupted by the screams of a German man slowly dying in a burning fire. The jaws of life and angle grinders attempting to crack open the burnt carcass of a steel smoldering wreck not being enough to quit the screams of the man inside. A brief 30 second pause of silence as the rescue crew believes that the man has passed away. The silence is interrupted by the rhythmic sound of broken bone beating against steel as the man gives one last fight to break free of his iron coffin. The sound slowly fades away, and the drilling and cutting begins again to remove the corpse from the tangled wreckage.

Easiest 1 star so far, the guy obviously added it to show what a bad album is

If you enjoy the sound of a building site, you'll love this.

Lowest rated album on this website. And I kinda get it, but I had fun with it. Pretty cool most of the time, and the less good moments were kinda funny in a youtube poop way. So I was entertained. 3.5/5

Look, did I like this? No. Do I think this is the worst thing that I've listened to during this project? Also no. 2.5/5

Well that was a train wreck. No, literally, there were times it actually sounded like a train wreck. And those were the good parts. WTF?

Abrasive and chaotic. Albeit intriguing, kind of like an ode to musics earliest iteration of sound creation by banging sonic plates and drums. No defined meter, or beat not even utilizing western music scales. Very semitonal as well. Its cool on paper, listening was hard, appreciating it is also difficult. But I wont give it the worst rating.

Not bad but longer than I could listen to in one sitting. Not really my thing.

Revolurionary

Easily the second worst thing Germany has ever done.

I wondered to myself what album I was going to get while I was doing my prep for my colonoscopy and was hoping it would be something fun and distracting. Then I thought to myself "lol watch I'll get that weird German album that is sitting at lowest rated". Imagine my shocked pikachu face when I rated my album for the previous day and low and behold... there it was. Since I'm only 20 albums in the odds on that are pretty low, but here we are! The first track in I was instantly thinking about NIN (which I do like at least some of). A quick google search confirmed for me this is one of the influences for their music. I can definitely see how this had an influence on other bands and because of that I think it's worthwhile to listen to at least once in your life. It's not really "enjoyable" but it is "interesting". A lot of disjointed screaming/yelling and discordant noises. Also including banging sounds, sudden distorted instruments that fade in and out, and power tools. Maybe it's the lack of solid food, maybe it's Stockholm syndrome, but by the end of the album I was kinda digging it? I'm not sure if/when I will ever relisten to it but it made me feel a way I don't really know how to describe, and I can't say anything else I have listened to has given me the same feeling. I was left questioning how to rate this. Based on how I have rated my other albums, it should probably be a 2 but I think I kind of want to bump it up to a 3 just to counterbalance the lower score a little. I do think it's worthwhile to listen to. Even if it's just to widen your music knowledge, and know stuff like this exists out there and there are people who enjoy it.

Y'a clairement un truc musicalement recherché, à réécouter.

Last night, I sat with my newborn son for an hour, rocking him to sleep with his little white noise machine on in the background. Listening to an hour of white noise was an interesting experience; it wasn't intended as music, but it conveyed a feeling of peace, calm, and security in a way that music often does. In short, pure audio static managed to wring out a small emotional response from my tired mind. This album felt like the remix to white noise, but worse. The artist somehow managed to mess up the simplest form of noise. They could have just fuzzed their guitars for an hour, and I probably would have like it twice as much. Still better than most punk though.

Yuk!

Visiting Berlin: fun Eurobeat song Living in Berlin: whatever this album is

I'd rather listen to Bob Dylan.

At the time of writing this, this is the lowest rated album on this website. I completely understand why that is the case, but I would be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy this German freak music.

What is this shite

Schizo posting music

Damn that was painful

I'm not smart enough to appreciate this.

so many screams.

Truly, should be zero stars.

dannydevitonope.gif 0.3/10

Did I just enjoy listening to a german construction site ? Yes. Maybe. Probably. Well, I'm still not sure how to feel, but at least it made me feel something, it's really bold, conveys a purpose, and is not another piece of boring bland generic pop/rock music as is so often the case in this selection of albums. I discovered something, and I'm glad I did.

German industrial noise. Experimental but not a good

What the Cold War does to a mf 💀💀💀 I’m assuming they’re repeating Germanic phrases that center around social issues? Truly the Death Grips of their time, except this made a bit more sense than death grips do tbh. Never listening to this again, but I get it and respect it

Can I give it no stars? Utter noise. I make it a rule that I listen to each album on this list in its entirety, but this is by far the most difficult to stick with. It's like some music/drama/art students have been given the keys to the music room, a supply of drugs and just decided to try everything. It's a nein from me.

Esto es solo ruido.

i had to turn this off 20 minutes in it’s really not my cup of tea.

Realmente una mierda. Un intento de electrónica con instrumentos. Ruidoso y horrible.

this fucking sucks

Wow. Each song even worse than the last. This is not music; it's construction work at 5 in the morning. The first "album" that I wish I could rate with 0 stars.

Yes, industrial experimental music can be too experimental.

Anyone can make a guitar sound like music but to make music out of what I can only assume is someone crinkling a ball of tin foil in front of an oscillating fan while someone else beats on a street sign with two group handles is truly art. This album reminds me of tool, nine inch nails, and iThe prodigy and it is fairly enjoyable listen to what is clearly just noise

A lot of noise

Quite possibly the worst album I have listened to on the list so far. Grating. -1/5

Concentrationcampcore. This is not music, just an angry German yelling and bashing pans for an hour. 1/10

Schizophrenia.mp3

The sonic equivalent of a shart. But if you do a shart on a canvas and put it up in a gallery while acting pretentious about it, you get to call it art and people will find value in it. Seriously though - I am really open minded about "you like what you like" but this has nearly no musical quality to it. It is just shouting and things clanging together. Every once in a while you hear something that you could connect to "industrial music" but that's like looking at some spilled paint and saying you can see the Mona Lisa in it.

3.75

I think this album psychologically damaged me. Thank you for ruining my day and eardrums. My only solace whilst listening to forks scraping against plates was that someone said it sounds like hitler is screaming at you. I would joke about this giving me a headache but it genuinely did give me a nasty one.

ubilo me ovo

Look it's not particularly good and I thought it was going to be more interesting given this is the lowest rated album on this entire list. It incorporates different sounds and certainly has some interesting passages, but there are also quite a few songs on here which are genuinely boring, with the only point of interest being power tools being looped or some shit like that, which doesn't actually make for exciting music. Whilst I haven't listened to their whole discography they certainly have better albums Light 2.5

I often grade stuff on here based on how frequently I might come back to it, but that doesn't fit here at all. Lacks some of the sharp grooves of some of their other records, but more than makes up for it in industrial atmosphere. More wacky shit in the canon plz. Fave track: Kollaps

i have a headache

100% not for me.

Proto Industrial Metal. Someone bought drumsticks but no drums. Didn't finish.

Was about as enjoyable as as group of people shouting in German while banging various metal things together could be. My first impression was that it was going to be difficult listening, but it slowly grew on me, peaked with the cover of Je t'aime and the great Kollaps, then faded back to more subdued sounds with no vocals that gradually faded away until the album ended. I felt a lot of different musical vibes here, from The Fall, Bauhaus, NiN, even some electronica. Using my rating system, I'm interested enough to listen to this again, so it gets four stars from me.

No idea what they saying but it was cool

Very poor in quality

Fucking horrible it literally hurt my ears

das fehlte mir noch

Very odd, avant garde music, largely consisting of an angry-sounding German man shouting over various semi-industrial noises. I was strangely fascinated, but ultimately disappointed - I was expecting Krautrock and didn't get it. There's a very funny rework of Je t'aime (moi non plus) though, called Jet'm.

Bauschutt, kann entsorgt werden! -5/5

From this day forward, I'll probably have a little laugh to myself whenever I see a construction site. I'll imagine the workers making weird, deranged music like this with their hammers and drills. Before pressing play I knew that there was only a 0.0003% chance that I would enjoy this record, and safe to say I didn't like it at all. This is not music, this is noise - then again, that was the intent anyway. I pretty much hated this, but maybe my ears are slowly opening up to the fact that this music does exist. And some people are legitimately fond of it. I am not one of those people. But you know what? Respect. It's completely unlistenable to me but I see the appeal better than I do electronica, grindcore (hello, Napalm Death's Scum), or avant-garde jazz (hello, John Zorn's Spy vs. Spy).

No

Wow!, This fully deserves to be on the list. What an experience. One I'll probably not repeat but worth it once. Seriously hard sounds but seriously impressive commitment to that sound. Brutal and possibly beautiful.

NEIN! Det her er første gang jeg virkelig har overvejet om det var min tid værd! Svaret er nej! Halvdelen af lydene er lyd fra mit arbejde, den anden halvdel er ugidelig tysk...

Hvor god en cola er en Fanta Exotic? Jamen en Fanta er jo ikke en cola! Og nej det her er ikke musik. Det kan godt være det er lyd, det kan også godt være det er kunst, men musik er det ikke. Det lyder mest som lydsiden af en kunstinstallation på Louisiana. Som sådan kunne det måske godt fungerer. Som musikalbum er det verdens længste ørkenvandring gennem lyd af metal mod metal, skærerbrændere og skrig, med et enkelt lyspunkt i nummeret Kollaps som faktisk kan betegnes som et musikalsk nummer.

No

This music is the equivalent of the scene in every horror movie where the killer is right behind them and you’re saying NO NO NO NO. This is the music waiting for you at the bottom of the sewer. This music is the symbol on the album cover made manifest, at the end of a dimly lit tunnel 100 yards away running towards you at full sprint. It’s the sort of stuff that’s in the basement of the doctor who made the Human Centipede. This shit had to have been created in the aftermath of Chernobyl down in the bowels of the facility. I can feel the radiation on some of these songs and it’s going to linger longer than I’d like. This kind of album has a half-life. And that doesn’t even begin to describe the horror I felt when I saw their album cover of Haus der Luge (spoiler, it’s a wide eyed horse shooting goo into a puddle) another album no doubt cursed by some ancient German demon. Pretty wild I had to hear this the same day I watched Zone of Interest. Maybe this was their punishment for the sins of the third reich. Forced to live in an abandoned concentration camp and record in the bowels of some crematorium. I do believe this album should be on this list, it’s an Art Most Fowl. Abandon all hope, ye who press play, you’re entering the lair in Poughkeepsie Tapes.

Everybody's favorite genre: evil noise. I've made mental note of this album based on seeing it on the global Worst Rated Albums list on this site, and I always look forward to finding out why. What we get here is an industrial noise album from the early '80s, and wouldn't you know it, I really dig it. I know I've mentioned Pharmarkon's Bestial Burden in another review, and I mentioned it to Alex as we talked about this album, but it's a reference point for me as this sort of vile, bitter noise that represents really harsh, negative emotion. You'd think it would be unpleasant for me, and in a literal sense it definitely is, but it's also an expression that I really respect and feel like I understand, to the point that I geniunely have grown to love albums like this. Most would say it's not even music, and I don't know if I can make a case to the contrary, but damn I love this stuff. Albums like this ABSOLUTELY belong on a list of things you must hear before you die, even if it literally kills you. I'm keeping a good handful of bangers. I think the album got a little tame and same-y on the back end, but overall a great ride. Favorite tracks: Tanz Debil, Steh Auf Berlin, U-Haft-Muzak, Draussen Ist Feindlich, Schmerzen Horen, Kollaps, Vorm Krieg, Spionagedub. Album art: What the hell am I looking at? A little cyclops freak? Is that even supposed to be a person, or just a symbol? Not much to it, but it's kind of memorable for that same reason. 4/5

This album is proof that the list is way too long, there are definitely NOT 1001 albums we'd want to listen to before we die. But at least now I can say there's one album I gave one star to.

MAKE IT STOP PLEASE

No. Just No. The anger is overwhelming. No No No.

Don’t think this deserves the absolute hate it gets. It’s for sure a challenging listen, but it’s at least something different and provokes a reaction. Do much of this list has already been of the “oh god, more of this?” type that something genuinely different really stands out.

Not AS bad as the reviews made it out to be. But that doesn’t make it any less ear grating and nonsensical. But isn’t that kind of the point? Whatever man, I don’t know.

Genuinely insane album. Deeply unserious.

I like the industrial genre and wanted to like this particular album more than I did.

Fucking terrible. All in german. Weird angsty synth screamy shit.

Digging the atmospheric, minimalist parts but only suffer through this parafascistoid, imperative scream/noise.

Experimental music from the 80s. What more you can say.

Pretty cool in places, but slightly too wanky for me.

I love Blixa Bargeld. His era with The Bad Seeds is my favourite, and the album he did with Teho Teardo, Still Smiling, is superb. That is exactly why this felt even more disappointing. Kollaps is pure experimental industrial noise. Twenty three tracks of clanging, scraping, abrasive sound with almost nothing resembling melody or structure. I understand it was groundbreaking and deliberately confrontational, but for me there is nothing remotely enjoyable about it. It is relentless and exhausting. I genuinely praise myself for making it to the end. This is easily the hardest listen of the challenge so far and sits well below a one out of five in my personal rankings. Favourite song: None Least favourite song: All of them Album artwork: Stark and harsh, which fits the music, but not something I would call appealing

Why? Why even?

Realistically I'm never going to listen to this again but it's still interesting, I'd have this over 10 britpop albums

As industrial as it get, it doesn't lie. musing to get an album in german

This record is way funnier while high. Just imagining the band at a construction sight just doing whatever they feel like. This is a fucking awesome record, far from the worst record in the list. So cool how these guys can make songs with random construction equipment

As a non-German speaker, I can't appreciate the poetry of the lyrics but appeciate the sentiment of emotion and the music. Intense, discordant, and pulsating - and clear how EN are part of the influence for more familiar acts like NIN. Not an album I would necessarily go back to but recognise the impact EN have had

People who wear Einstürzende Neubauten t-shirts clearly do not listen to their albums.

Industrial, experimental. Ruido absurdo. Un 1 y porque no hay menos...

Lord have mercy on us all, this sounds like WWII the Musical

Some angry German guy yearling stuff on an active construction site Overall decently enjoyable apart from the high pitched screeching

Holy shitballs, we used to listen to this at night while putting out The Aspen Times. Just the weirdest shit ever. Industrial rock designed to torture the eardrums. Dan Thomas, Mark VonderHaar, Jon "Sticky Buns" Maletz, where you at?

I cannot begin to imagine what was going through the minds of the people who made this. Who were they making it for? Who wants to listen to some German guy screaming and moaning for an hour?

Okay they got me. Not sure they were going for ‘listenable’ anyway. Simpsons: No

Listening to this casually, it comes across as absolutely awful. When you pay more attention and listen carefully, it's even worse. Anyone giving this more than one star is a nonce.

This is actual torture material. Most people would be singing like canary by the end of the 2nd track. Avoid this album!!!!! Unless you need to torture somebody!!!

I came in thinking this would be absolutely awful but it wasn’t. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t good but it wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever heard. Some interesting use of found objects. But yeah, won’t listen again, if I’d never had heard it my life would go on just fine. Honestly was expecting it to be more interesting. I can live with bad if it’s interest but it was just bad and boring

Not my thing.

Without this band, bands like Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein, Ministry & a whole lot of others wouldn't exist. EN are Industrial pioneers. There's a YouTube video of them in an industrial complex literally banging on pipes & discarded metal. This album isn't for everyone, but I appreciate their abrasiveness & fuck you attitude. A big shout out to EN & Kraftwerk for birthing some of my all-time favorite music.

Noise

Not for me 1/5

If the sounds of angry Germans working on a building site whilst listening to 'Stomp' B-Sides is your idea of fun, then have at it! Best Tracks: Tanz Debil; Draussen ist Feindlich; Vorm Krieg

Oh. My. Fucking. God. No. This is the first album we just could not listen to. We did the first 30 seconds or so of each song, occasionally jumping ahead in the song to verify that yes, this *is* 3 minutes of nothing but the same metallic banging. I wish I could give this negative stars.

Nope

I love finding new (to me) artists like this. I had no idea what I was about to hear, but found it surprisingly engaging. I would definitely listen again, and have already looked for more of their work.

Well that was…….something.

From Wikipedia: One of their trademarks is the use of custom-built instruments, predominantly made out of scrap metal and building tools, and noises, in addition to standard musical instruments. Their early albums were unremittingly harsh, with Bargeld's vocals shouted and screamed above a din of banging and scraping metal percussion. Need I say more? This album is a cruel joke to see how horrifically bad these noises can get for people to consider it as music. This is beyond torture music, this is the music that greets you at the gates of hell, clicking 1 star pains me as this is a complete 0/10.

meh. 2 stars for technobabble nonsense.

What even is this? Atonal to the extreme. I now regret giving 1s to other albums if this is the bottom.

Blind album and artist. This album makes my ears bleed and I hate it. It sounds like trash and the trash cans it came from were used to make some of the sounds on this album.

Holy smokes not my bag

No thank you

The novelty of this album and the 1981 timestamp it bears is not lost on me. It's certainly unlike anything I've ever heard from that era. It's just not my cup o'tea.

This is one of the most important bands to my teenage years. These guys directly inspired every band I loved from 89-95. They created industrial music and were influential in house music and edm. That being said its not something i would put on at a party. I haven't personally listened to one of their records since 1995, but still rightly deserve a place on this list.

Truly industrial punk I don't understand, but in the right mood this would work.

Now iz dee time on shprokets when we dance. Don't touch my monkey.

Didn’t understand a word they were saying but understood what they were doing this shit slaps

unbelievably awful

i put my headphones on to block out the noise that my neighbours make constantly drilling and banging on the walls. i open the album generator to see what album i get.... kollaps. this album is like the embodiment of the sound recording studio they use to get all the pokemon noises how did this even get in to the 1001 albums i dont think im ever gonna be able to use my discover weekly again after this got a message mid way through listening that said "are you ok"! i get the point of this is to be unlistenable but like..... 0.8/5

Album go brrrrrrrrrrrrr

German guy yelling and bagging on metallic structures while another guy does welding in an abandoned factory. This album should be the last on the list since people could die from listening to it.

I'm all fine with crafting a noisy and disturbing product, but the industrial aspect was taking place too much over having a dark and scary mood. Not for me.

I don't think this is the worst album in the book; found its experimentation quite compelling. Wouldn't say I loved it but I respect it and thought that it was successful in what it set out to do

can a band be groundbreaking, influential and ahead of their time while also be borderline unlistenable? ladies and gentlemen, i present to you einstürzende neubauten. much of the “music” contained within is just a series of rhythmically paced machine sounds with primitive sounding guitars, synths, and drums. oh, and there’s aggressive sounding german peppered throughout (much of the album is instrumental). definitely influenced bands such as nine inch nails, ministry and rammstein, however this album just wasn’t very good.

That description is OOOF. Track 1 (GYAHHHH) and I'm already struggling. 2nd track, all I hear is yelling and power tools. 1*, no question. Another, "oh this is so unique and groundbreaking, you must listen before you die" with no consideration for quality. FUUUUCK a whole hour of this. I had to keep reminding myself to not skip tracks to power through this. I see now that this is the lowest rated album here, so I guess I have better albums to look forward to!

What a terrible 365th album

Nope

This must be a record - I turned off after about forty seconds. I'm assuming fans of Aphex Twin get off on this kind of stuff but I have no patience for it.

Have you ever taken a test or completed a survey, where in amongst the questions there is a control question? Something along the lines of "Select 5 as the answer for this question". It's to make sure you are paying attention and has nothing whatsoever to do with the test itself. This album is the equivalent of that. It has absolutely no business being here. It's just a test to see if we are awake. We are, this "music" sucks.

Holy fuck is this bad. Like the worst album we've had so far. Track 2 starts with 33 seconds of a drill being used in screeching fashion and I almost refused to carry on from there, genuinely angry at that point. It doesn't get better. One of the reviews says "Not bad background music except for it feeling like I was being shouted at by Hitler the entire time", I would've actually preferred that. Fuck off.

This is dire, on a par with the Liars album that I listened to quite recently but was a couple of weeks ago for the rest of you. It combines some creative use of power tools with a total lack of any rhythm, or singing beyond some astonishingly unpleasant screaming. There's some music that's just a noise, but this is worse than that, it seems like it's actively designed to be unpleasant. I imagine it sounds like the sound you hear in the early morning from the cheapest room in the cheapest hotel in the cheapest, scummiest part of Magaluf, a combination of them building the next crappy hotel and the distant tinny echoes of some substandard club music. Oh, plus there's the angry German plotting to invade Poland in the room next door. 1/5.

This is the lowest rated album on this site and frankly I’m not too surprised. I wouldn’t necessarily say it’s the worst thing I’ve come across in this project, but it is nearly unlistenable at times. There were a couple of tracks that were ok, but also just a lot of drilling - also what is up with that Serge Gainsbourg cover?

Too industrial for me. I can't get through it. I know a bunch of people I went to high school who would love this shit. They were all great friends but also were exactly like the goth kids from South Park

Better than Throbbing Gristle. Maybe not as good as trout mask replica. But definitely interesting, im scared to say it... but im fairly certain i enjoy it could never see myself buying this on vinyl ever tho. Definitely some songs remind me of "This Heat"

This was wild. I kinda wanted to give it a 2 for being so bold of an experiment, but it also felt like the soundtrack to my migraines so it gets a 1.

Good fucking lord. Unlistenable.

It was a different album to what I'm used to, not really my style though.

I have a hard time rating any album a 1. But this just isn't me. Don't understand the words. Sounds like "Stomp" without any polyrhythms.

According to Merriam Webster, music is “vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony”. This album had mechanical sounds, a little bit of rhythm on some songs, and that’s about it. This was an album of art more than it was an album of music. I like music. I can usually appreciate the innovation of someone trying some new or different, but this just sounded like someone playing around in garage band doing random stuff for the sake of being random.

One work...interesting. For the most part is it just noise but putting it all together it is...interesting

peculiar

What the actual fook is this? Just about managed to listen to the first track, could not stand the drill in the second track. Just because you can (sample annoying industrial sounds), doesn't mean you should

Awful

I did not enjoy this. Better than Meatloaf? Possibly.😛

Not sure WTF this is.

This is it. This is what they play in Hell. I genuinely believe that, if there is a hell of some sorts, the music that plays there sounds like this. Is that a bad thing? YES. OF COURSE IT IS. The sound is atrocious. Half the time it sounds like suffering and pain. That's especially the case with the vocals. As others have pointed out, listening to this album occasionally feels like I'm being screamed at by Hitler, which is fitting given that, like Hitler, this album belongs in the depths of Hell. The writing is bad. I google translated it from German to English, and most songs are just filled with random grim phrases strung together. I really don't know what to say. If anyone wants to experience what Hell sounds like, this is it. Here's the album for you! I don't want that though. People shouldn't listen to this before they die. Maybe if the vocals were better I could give it a 2, but as it is, this album gets a 1/5. The first one I've had in three weeks. I can see why this is the lowest rated album on this website.

Unpopular opinion on this site, but I really enjoyed this album. It is abrasive, confrontational, and experimental. It feels like abstracted industrial music and for whatever reason that appeals to me. The shout sung lyrics along with the noises create a claustrophobic and uneasy feeling which feels very appropriate for this album.

Loud and banging. Damn.

Ich bin ein Berliner. Like a rhythmic baby smashing tin cans. This is street art in an album but it’s not really music. Let’s just move on and act like this never happened. 0.5/10

I like music. I recognise and value experimentation. I know all genres aren't going to float my boat and that's fine. But holy shit this is unlistenable.

Listen... I live in Berlin. I've been to the seedy sex clubs that would play weird shit like this. Doesn't make it good. I get maybe why this was important but by god is it just the worst shit. Incidentally I've gotten a bunch of the lowest rated albums in the last month or so and this definitely deserves to the lowest. It's just not good.

what did i just listen to

det var en lang time

I didn't get any enjoyment from this 'intentionally unlistenable' album.

Doesn’t deserve even a single star

While I can appreciate what they did, how and when, this is not my style of music.

Some interesting stuff in here. U-Haft-Muzak is a bit too distressing. I maybe like Rohrbombe the best. But then I also liked that all conga album the generator gave me a while ago. The dubs were definitely the fun part of the album. Except Gastarbeiterdub. Made for a long hour of listening but no quibbles with the album being on this list. I'm not sorry to have heard it.

Finally i got to listen to this album. I feel like a 2.0/5.0 for it but since its one of the lowest rated imma give it a 1. I mean as long your not a top notch you gain more attraction on bein on of the lowest. I surprisinly weirdly liked it at some points but i could never actually listen to it while wanting to listen. Maybe in the gym wrecking weights to make me aggressive and and and but still interesting to use those industry machines somehow

The sounds in this album are really sharp, and actually hurt my ears. Couldn't listen to any song for any length of time.

I really don’t know what to make of this. The first half was just shouty, the second half was more listenable. I can definitely where the ‘industrial’ name comes from. It would have been more interesting to see this live, kind of permanence. And I like the idea of constructing instruments from bits and pieces

Noise rock. bracing myself for a 1 but unclear. Yep 1.

AAA

Some parts ok, a few parts good. Large parts tedious

Awful

Kollaps is the first official LP/album from the German experimental music group Einstürzende Neubauten. This noise rock / industrial album has undertones of punk tracks and became popular for its shocking use of electronics, machines, and everyday bits of metal within the music. Although Kollaps can be jarring at times, one has to appreciate the creativity that went in to making the album. I may not listen to this again, but it was quite the ride while it lasted.

It's interesting but I'm never listening to it again

WTF

Experimentell, avantgardistisch, chaotisch, radikal... wer hat noch mehr Adjektive? Wobei dieser "Industrial-Sound" wohl auch andere Bands beeinflusst hat. Ich musste an einer Stelle an Master & Servant von DM denken. Hirnsäge, Atemwege - TILT.

In the words of Joe Pesci... "what the fuck is this piece of shit?"

Hell no

What the fuck is this shit?

Let’s just listen to Metal Machine Music my guy….

This album was literally just noise. There was nothing musically going on at all.

Ugh

This is to NiN what Chuck Berry was to the Beatles. Industrial isn't always my thing, but I can appreciate this for what it is.

genuinely the worst album i’ve ever had the misfortune of hearing. the creator of this book should be shot.

Ok, so this is the lowest rated album on the list and somehow I was able to listen to the whole thing. Granted, I said WHAT THE FUCK out loud multiple times. It's filled with tracks of just noises. Like entire tracks of just a drum being repeatedly hit which seemed odd. I don't understand why it's on this list and I never want to listen to it again, but it wasn't THAT bad. There are plenty of other albums on this list that are more musical but absolutely intolerable to listen to.

Sehr gut! Nice to listen to something interesting for a change & recognize the influence to a lot of music I enjoy

I usually listen to my album of the day early in the morning before the rest of the family awake and whilst I potter around. That wasn't possible with Einstürzende Neubauten. This album completely challenges perceptions of what music is and what makes music and what music can be. Whilst it is generally unlistenable, there are aspects and sequences and elements which are and despite few instruments and lots of noise from found objects. Is this music or just sound? Is our brain making patterns in order to make sense of it? Are we trying to understand this in a coherent way? Why are some elements melodic and others just freaking smashing plates? Informing and influencing other styles, such as hardcore, industrial and even (surely?) techno, there is no doubt this is an important and significant album and way more meritorious of its spot as an album you must listen to before you die than countless others on the list.

Not a big fan.

How on earth did this make the list??? This was an awful album. I don't find a single redeeming quality in it. It's just experimental noise. This is right up there with the absolute worst albums I've been given so far.

Wanted to love it because it’s German from 1981 but it’s virtually unlistenable

Weird album of random sounds. Didn’t enjoy it. 1/5

Is this album used in torture sessions?

Holy jesus this is horrible. Why are we vacuuming in the middle of our song? Why are we doing construction? This isn’t a day in the life it’s supposed to be music. I’ve never heard something worse in my life.

While appreciating and generally celebrating the need for different approaches to music overall.... ....holy crap this is *literally* highest-decibel noise. ...except for the oversaturated screaming. Mustn't leave that out. Where are the words to properly express this - it's not terrible in the same way I view bands/acts that I just hate. This is a straight-up nightmare and will be one of the few albums I wasn't able to get through, or even close to it. It doesn't even work as a novelty. If this isn't the worst album on the list I don't want to know. 0/10 1 star (only because we have a minimum).

Industrial rock with all the harsh sounds of power tools and whatever else could be found. The punk rock influences make it better than you would expect if you don't like industrial music.

Quite a few things demonstrate the massive effect that a divided Germany and Berlin had on the world. German industrial music is unfortunately one of those things. And man does it show the mental state of those people. Just strange strange stuff, how fucked up does your life have to be and how many drugs do you have to be on to go "you know what, we should make and album full of a bunch of clanking metal and power tools and call it music!" Because that totally seems like a logical choice. What a fucking terrible listen! It is the worst rated album on here for a reason.

I was oddly excited when I saw that I got a German experimental album today. Say what you will about German music, but they are not afraid to take chances when trying to make cool music. This album is certainly abrasive, which makes it hard to give it a very positive review, but at the same time, it's easy to see how this album would have been a hugely influential for artists like Trent Reznor and Ministry. Despite the fact that it is intentionally hard to listen to, it has that special something that sets good experimental music apart from dumb noise 4/5, though this might be the least pleasant 4 I've given out so far

My goal is to listen to every album on this list cover to cover and this was the biggest test so far. I hate this album and have negative feelings for whoever said it’s a must listen. -5 stars

Always enjoy these interesting industrial noise albums to a certain extent. This one can be added to the pile of glad I listened but won’t be rushing back.

Un album qu'on attendait avec impatience et qui a bien tenu son rang de pire du générateur puisque tout simplement épouvantable. Merci Robert d'être l'homme que tu es, c'est-à-dire une ordure de première catégorie.

Les liens de Robert avec le 3ème Reich deviennent de plus en plus évidents, cet individu doit être traîné devant un tribunal au plus vite.

Not sure I needed to hear that.

I still have a metallic taste in the back of my throat that I cant get rid of.

A couple of these were almost listenable.

No

10/10 filthy fucking garbage - anti-music - ART

Who doesn't love some German, far-out-there industrial noise experimentation that sounds like a bunch of metal garbage cans being thrown around?

Thoughts while listening - currently on track 4 - U-Haft-Muzak of Kollaps by Einsturzende Neubauten...Maybe its the 6:30am listening time (usual time to listen to my album of the day) or maybe its the Mtn Dew I just cracked but I have an overwhelming feeling of anxiousness. I am pretty positive its the music. I'm not an industrial noise fan and...well...these guys are. I will endure. After thoughts - wow. I can see why these guys would be influential in this genre. I do not need to listen to it again but this full album was bone chilling. I've never felt that way while listening to any music. Abrasive, tingy, annoying, loud, off beat... all of those types of things - but a single once through is needed to understand their influence.

Hated it at first, grew on me over time. Probably won’t listen to this again.

Das Geklapper kann man sich nicht ernsthaft anhören.

The worst album ive ever listened to

Små glimt af noget der minder om musik - og ellers bare ren XL-byg for resten

Ritmos industriales y pesados desde el minuto 1. Hasta cierto punto, acompasados y algún tipo de ritmo. Demasiado monótono y falta de carisma. Muy estilo alemán

Dissonant industrial/noise. Started off extremely harsh, got gentler as it went along. Second half of the album was almost entirely absent of vocals.

Yeah I had to skip through this one and didn’t find anything compelling about this attempt at “music”. Loud and headache inducing. No value at all. Nein

jednostavno ti mora pasati, da želiš ovako industrijsku glazbu, meni je dobro, a može i bolje

German noises