Reviews (page 7 of 9)
No thank you
First album, and I could barely make it through the first song. At least I know where every punk’s favorite tattoo come from now.
i had a very strong feeling i wasn't gonna care for this just by the cover alone. my intuition is yet again proven right this is experimental, that much i can say. it's pretty much just a german guy screaming and shouting over power tools, clanking metal and some drums. a few of the tracks are interesting, but most were too abrasive for my taste i can't find much good to say about this album unfortunately. i don't think this was necessarily "shit" or "just a bunch of noise" or anything. this just ain't for me
Impressively awful. People banging on sheets of metal and making weird noises. If that's music, I'm going to set up my own band with that sheet of corrugated iron in my back yard.
pass
WTAF
You know that pattern in my reviews where sometimes when this site gives me a really awful album, it follows it up with a really good album? Well, with Kollaps, this site did the exact opposite by being the follow up to Rocks. And yeah, It is a terrible album. It tried to be unique by incorporating various found items into it's sound like metal plates which basically means that this album was recorded with literal garbage. This of course, was not executed well as this feels like some music that a little child would make with a lot of toys at their disposal rather than by actual professionals. This album still is incredibly annoying too with bad vocals and constant irritating sounds making this one of the worst albums on this site. Best Song: Tanz Debil Worst Song: Lunebest
Total crap.
I am glad that is over.
Awful
Life is too short 1
Seriously. I’m here to discover different music. This doesn’t qualify. Sure, so nice percussion patterns here and there, but it’s just not for me. Well, at least I can say I have experienced something different.
this shit sucks
Sucked
I like the cover art.
Easily the worst album on the list.
Why is this on the list??
mucho ruido, muy primitivo
First (and only?) club show I ever played in Germany was opening for some Neubauten acolytes. Entirely found percussion, mic’d up with lavalier mics connected, wires strewn everywhere, total chaos. We were paid an absurd amount (plus a Kiste of bier, very important) and ducked out maybe a song into their set (not very punk rock of us). This was in 1995, so the idea of nontrad percussion and industrial melodic sensibilities was on the wane, but still maybe presented an idea of what the future could look like for live music. Ha, sure thing kid. Despite having more than an average familiarity with German, I never spent much time with Neubaten. Their logo seemed like a badge for badasses and I figured I would have my time with them at some point, but it never came to pass. Einfach zu hässlich für mich.
Wtf?
Nicht fur mich, ich hasse diese album gern
1/5
Too experimental
Cacophony of hard sounds, too experimental. 1
Aj mina öron!
Yikes. I know I'm in trouble when the album has a track with so few listens it's not even listed. Construction noises? Boy is this not for me. I'm not sure I'm making it through. It is soooo long and nothing has been good. An assault on my ears.
This some industrial noise that I almost like, but those grating unmelodic yelling that I don't understand, pulls it down. This is live music for sure. I really wished I liked it more, but it's random noise more than the complex syncopation and melody I like out of music like this. I do not appreciate the beauty in texture and timbre in discordant instruments like these artists do. Gonna have to give it a 1 cause just I don't know what they're going for, and don't think I'll enjoy the process to figure that out.
trash
q cojones
I couldn't get passed the power tools song. Either should you.
Favoriten
I tried. I really did. It is just noise.
I don't think this so my style if my first artist is Conan Gray
Ongeïnspireerde geluiden
I didn’t enjoy listening to this album. 1/5
The hardest spot the difference test: power tools or German shouting? (Entschuldigung)
I knew this would be a 1-star about 4 seconds into listening. I'm happy for the people that are into this sort of thing that this exists. Maybe it's a good noise album? I am not qualified to judge. The real testament for me on this is that I listened to it to the end. Even if I found the experience deeply unpleasant, I let all of this pass into my brain for a time. For that, I consider myself a hero.
Did not like this at all. I don't like noise rock, made even more so in a language I don't understand.
I pressed play and immediately regretted all my life choices. This album gave my ears tetanus. It’s an hour of sentient metal pipes and malfunctioning appliances jamming while screaming German in a condemned warehouse. I get that it's supposed to be industrial, but so is asbestos. Just chaos cosplaying as creativity. The only Kollaps here was my will to live. Spins: 1 Playlist Additions: LOL
Honestly what in the world is this. Pushes the boundary of what you can call music. I'm glad I saved the 1 star rating for junk like this. I made it 3 songs and had to stop - Well... this one isn't going to rate well globally
Exactly as expected.
Can I also get paid for my morning poops? One track was just someone screaming while flushing their toilet. The rest of the album was similarly, them just recording some noise while screaming. Just take a microphone and a toddler down to a construction site, and you too can appear on a list of albums to hear before you die! Kollaps was a nice breakout, the beat goes really hard. Candidate for worst album. Best song: Kollaps
Assault! Assault!
Absolutely atrocious. I didn't think anything would be worse than Duck Stab, but this now holds the title of the worst album I've listened to.
They have lost it. 1/5
I really wanted to be wanky and pretentious and say that I loved this and it doesn't deserve to be the second worst rated album on the 1001 Albums site. Unfortunately the "music" didn't do much to convince me otherwise. That's if you can call it that. This album seriously pushes the boundaries of what you could classify as music. Let's list some positives. Firstly, it wasn't THAT bad in my opinion (yes, that is a positive). Secondly, I actually think the high pitched shouts screams are very impressive. Thirdly, at least it was different and somewhat interesting. I'd probably take this over some generic rock, a 75 minute long rap album, or boring soul. At times, I really do think you'd be hard pressed to call it actual music. Art? Maybe. Expressionism? Probably. Just noise? Most people would agree with that last one. It's very harsh, very abrasive, very industrial sounding. I'd probably come back to it, but only out of curiosity's sake more than anything. I was going to be a bit funny and give it a two but I'd just be lying to myself.
Not even music. Industrial noises and German screaming. Feel free to skip this one with extreme prejudice.
This whole album is just noise. I read the name of Einstürzende Neubauten a few times already and was actually curious what kind of music they make, but I was totally turned off when I listened to this album. Their other music is actually listenable.
Why?
So not my thing just noise
non so se dare 1 o 2... questi hanno preso ispirazione dai lavori di carpenteria che avevano sotto casa... sicuramente originali.. poco orecchiabili.. musica non elettronica, proprio industriale
1 out of 5. I wanted to like this one, I really did.
no thanks!!!!
Sure I know people say this is “innovative” and “influential” for industrial music, but honestly this is just noise to me. I’m not seeing what fans of this album are.
Absolute rubbish like the things he was banging !
The punk music hiding behind the seemingly random noises doesn't come close to saving this for me. If I could give it a lower score I would.
It's not for me.
hmmm I thought I'd like this but I really *really* don't
At least I had fun.
пас)) звуки электродрели и немецкий текст это то чем я в аду буду развлекаться
I’m proud of myself for listening to the entire album, which I described as “if you gave a bunch of elementary school kids with no musical talent random instruments and told them to make noise, along with some grunting.”
Beyond awful. Made it through about half the tracks.
Not my vibe
I have to rate this 1/5 (and 1/10 if we used 10 stars) but I must say that this kind of experimental music takes courage as it in fact explores the limits of what music is. Most of the album is not, but my favourite track on it, "Kollaps", not only isn't bad. In fact, I enjoyed it. This is more of a performance than a musical album, and given the tragedies of the 20th century, the German history in particular, this effort makes sense. It's bad, but I do not hate it.
Noise
Too harsh for me, did't like the vibe of the album, too industrial for my taste 1/5
The sounds of a construction site accident..could be use as a mode of torture
After reading some of the reviews, I thought, "It couldn't possibly be that bad." Well, it is. There are some stretches of interesting parts/sounds, but, by and large, it is just noise and not even pleasant noise. As far as I can tell, it hasn't really inspired any notable artists/works so why it's on this 1001 list is truly a mystery to me.
I listen to a fair amount of experimental, noisy music. This is not music
Rating: 1/10 Had a few moments that was actually decent, those few moments actually had some melody to them. The rest of this is truly heinous and unlistenable. I respect experimentation but this is a German guy screaming with repetitive and annoying percussion over it.
WHY IS THIS ON THIS LIST this is not music
Noped out pretty quick on this one. Way harsher than my ears can take today. Gonna listen to Writing On Airplanes by Neil Drumming instead.
Meu ouvido não é penico pra escutar uma merda dessas. My ear is not a chamber pot to listen to shit like that.
shockingly bad
just irritating noise
None for me, thanks.
I don’t even have the words to describe what I felt
Wtf...I can get down with avante garde but this sounded like a burger stumbling through trash cans in 1981. Idk maybe it got better I didn't get past track 2
What the hell was that
No no no no no!!!!!!
This should have been album #1002 so I wouldn't have to hear this while I'm alive. Take the German yelling of Rammstein and add the absolute worst parts of Kraftwerk and mix someone tossing aluminum garbage cans into each other and this is what you get.
Awful. Like putting a bunch of toddlers in a room with a bunch of pots and pans.
Nah.
no thank you
Noise
This sounds like sort of stuff that would accompany experimental performative art. Which I like, but listening to this is annoying.
Would give it zero if I could.
I understand the other reviews.
Lot of noise, pretty bad
2/10 - It was just noise. Not great for pre-tournament music. Best album with a jackhammer tho
Jesus christ
This is the second album like this on the list? Laibach wasn't a good enough representation of this garbage, we had to have two? Just baffling decision after baffling decision. I'm really dreading hitting submit every morning. Being at least halfway through now, I'm too stubborn to give up, but my average rating is steadily sinking below 2.9
I always like to look on the bright side: It can't get any worse than this. I've reached the bottom of the list (and almost certainly of any album ever recorded). There's nowhere to go but up now.
nope
What the fck
Industrial noise / found sound. Schieß Euch Ins Blut sounds like it might contain the Wilhelm Scream.
This hurt. Not for me.
Original. Daring. Experimental. Unlistenable.
Thoughts before listening: I'm not really sure on this one too be honest. Industrial goth maybe? The cover doesn't look like that's what this would sound like, but for some reason that's what I'm associating with the band name. Review: So my memory served me well here, but now my ears are mad. I definitely had the sound pegged on this one, but this is a tough listen. More of a sound collage than any sort of traditional asking structure. I imagine this has a pretty low average score on here, I'm leaning a 1 to add to the pile on.
Answers the question “what if kraftwerk was atonal and bad?”
Mitä ihmeen pukeliääniä se tämä on?
No thank you.
nie
I'm sure there is some artistic justification for this, but it's hard to listen to.
My dog left the room. I like some odd stuff but a construction site in NYC is more pleasant to listen to than this.
I’d give this zero stars if I could.
I wanted to like this and I just didn't. Maybe on another day. Stopped listening halfway through the second track
Ugh, no thank you. This was bad and wasn't even ironically interesting. Couldn't finish it. I wasn't aware that industrial metal included trashcan lids and anvils.
So, yeah -- Art is Art -- but not all art is for me. I know people really think highly of this band but I don't see it. On a few songs I could get into the industrial nature of the songs but I couldn't get into it.
Not enjoyable.
I don’t mean to be that guy, but my kids can do this. And they do it just a little better.
Can hardly call this music - it’s just noise
Listened to the 13 track original release. As if the German language didn’t sound mean and nasty enough, they had to scream it and have annoying industrial sound effects and repetitive beats. I did not enjoy any of this. It may be the worst album I’ve heard so far.
Was für ein Schrott.
Nein.
Lost in translation. Apart from a few samples of recognizable music and some welcome silence, this was unlistenable to me. Makes sense. I google translated the title… “Songs From My Disturbed Sheet Metal Shop”.
I have learned to check how many tracks were on the original release of the record to make sure I do not have to listen to more tracks than I have to.
Somewhere between an interrogation room and a tray full of eating utensils being dropped on a tile floor.
i aint listening to all that. i'm happy for u tho. or sorry that happened.
Listened to this while playing Lisboa. I lost. I definitely blame this album. I'm all for weird shit...but this was just too much. I liked moments...but overall...absolutely not essential listening.
0 stars. What was that
Fuck that..
Horrible racket. How could this be one of the "1001 Albums..." except as a warning?
The title track saved it from the coveted 0-star rating. 0.5/5
That sucked I won’t lie
Hard no. Literally noise. Not for me.
Weird shit. I guess I understand the appeal, but I listened to 2 songs and called it.
I gave song one a chance and a few seconds from a couple others. I couldn’t imagine what worldwide location would be its equivalent in 1001 Places to Visit Before You Die.
Almost 600 albums in and just got my first German album a couple days ago. This one was much worse wow. It definitely deserves higher than the lowest possible score. Using actual industrial machinery definitely makes your music more hardcore than anything I’ve ever heard. It’s unique but still it’s just kind of a fun fact. It’s so hard to listen to. It’s like if the concentration camps were turned into an album. 23 different torture devices. I did like the SpongeBob song but that’s about it. It feels more like a showcase of different skills/textures that could be used to make actual music than music itself. Rating: 1.4
This is just noise. I don't often give out 1s, but I wish I could go even lower on this. What a waste of listening time.
This album was awful, but I'm still glad I listened to it. These guys did manage to turn a bunch of industrial noise into something that is undeniably music.
horrible
Garbage.
No
I kind of love seeing how angry this makes everybody. It’s hilarious how something so strange just sets people’s brains ablaze. Now, let me preface this by saying I’m not going to go on some long tirade as to why this is the worst thing I’ve ever heard. But I’m also not going to try and justify the existence of what is, and I mean this in the nicest but most genuine way possible, an abomination. This isn’t good. And I can’t even begin to think of what aspect of this might appeal to me. It’s sort of like the harsh power noise music that people like Merzbow make. The man has hundreds of records, many of which push the boundaries of what we know to be possible in our “normal” conventions of music. It’s both remarkable and shameful. Can you imagine taking Woodpecker No. 1 back to even just the 1960s, or god forbid further back than that, and making people listen to it? You might permanently alter the course of musical history. But none of that historical context is going to make me enjoy what I’m hearing. I think the execution is impressive. Creating your own machines and relying on pure electronics to create the music, and resorting to just bashing shit together for sound is unique to say the very least. But it lacks humanity. It doesn’t sound like music made by human beings with working organs. I feel it’s as inorganic as music can probably get. Like scraping on a dirty chalk board in hell. If the world was completely swallowed by an all-consuming machine, this is what would play as everything faded to black. The screams and wails are genuinely a little frightening. All of this really sparks a question in my mind? What pushes someone to create something of this nature? Surprisingly, this came out in 1981. So I’m wondering if industrial noise music has some sort of punk aspect to it, where it’s created in response to what’s popular, and exists solely to oppose that in every way possible. Except this pushes that desire to the ultimate length. Where one foot is fully off the cliff, suspended in the air, and the other is barely hanging on. Just waiting to slip and fall as everything comes crashing down. All of this might mean nothing, but I think it’s fun that an album I couldn’t be paid to listen to again makes me think about all of this. Either way, it’s up to the individual on whether they think this belongs on a list of essential records. I doubt the percentage of people in support of this is very large. Rating: 1/10
was expecting Rammstein, but got school kids with stolen plumbing equipment
They were saving this one
ooof
DNF hated this
okay
Pre-listening thoughts: whyyyy WHY WHY WHY did we have to get this album god no I have been dreading this since I started this challenge ☹️ the poop colored cover greeted me this morning and I let out the biggest sigh ever like come ON bro. Yes I knew eventually we had to get this album. Yes I’m still upset it’s here within my first 150 albums before ANY of the top rated albums on the site. Post/during listening thoughts: calling this an “album” or “music” is generous. This could induce a panic attack in someone who has never suffered anxiety a day in their life. This could make a blind man wish he was deaf too. This is like that one video where they took “How Bad Can I Be” from the Lorax and replaced every “bad” with a metal pipe falling. That was better than this. If you have never heard this album here is how I would describe it: there’s a German construction crew in your ears dismantling your eardrums but they keep hurting themselves with their equipment so they scream quite often. This is about to falsely inflate my ratings for other albums due to just how garbage this is. Can I give this a negative score? 0/10 DID I NEED TO HEAR THIS BEFORE I DIE: no and I pray for every user on this site who hasn’t had this album yet. At least my time with it is over. Fav tracks: oh my god. I have to add something to my playlist. This just hit me. Oh no. Oh god. Least fav tracks: every. Single. Sound. That. Was. Made. On. This. Abomination.
Honestly not quite sure what I just listened to. There was a 10-second span where I bopped along, then something that sounded like a mix of a chainsaw and an alarm clock started going. I'm glad this was on the list, but that doesn't mean I liked it.
audio torture
Jack hammers are music now...Steh auf Berlin was just awful Negativ Nein and U-Haft-Muzak were at least palatable Schmerzen horen just stops in the middle of nowhere and moves into an awful grating sound of Jet'm I don't think I could listen at home because my dog would not be able to handle that. Super repetitive and not in a good way Kollaps wasn't so bad but then the weird metaillic wind The screaming at the beginning of Schiess Euch Ins Blut is what I am feeling the whole song!
Some of this is ALMOST music. That's hardly anything to get excited about.
Lol This reminds me of Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain, but at least those songs had a pop structure underneath the sound of glass being run through a table saw sound. This is complete garbage. In fact, including this on the list pisses me off because so many truly great albums are not on it. 0 stars if that were an option.
If the contents of a garbage truck formed a band and decided only the least talented among them would get to play and sing, this is what I imagine it would sound like. I suppose it could always be worse, but yikes.
Get a grip koffi, what is this absolute shite you're feeding us. Sounds like one continuous track because it's so hard to tell when some German students stop making noise and then start again. Who the fuck was sat listening to this shite in 1981 in Berlin and thought it was any good. Low 1.
Tough old listen this. It’s very avant garde but definitely errs more towards the “disappearing up your own arse” end of things, as opposed to “that’s kind of interesting”. It’s abrasive and there’s nothing even remotely resembling a song on this. Which is kind of a dealbreaker for a music album. I’m hosting Christmas diner at mine this year, so as a social experiment I’m gonna throw this on. See what happens. Go all Berghain. Have no inclination to listen to this again, but I’m glad I’ve listened to it precisely once. Best track: 🤷🏻♂️ Worst track: 🤷🏻♂️
Christ. Went back to this after The Young Gods album. Do not recommend. Just bad vibes and cursed albums. Can't even do a review as this isn't music. Avant-garde nonsense. Sounds like a breakdown and not in a good way.
Unlistenable.
Was it bad? Absolutely Was it the worst thing I've heard on here so far? No, far from it 1 ⭐️
Not for me. Got a headache
Það er hægt að setja ýmislegt á hljómplötur. Tónlist er eitt. Tilraunakenndar barsmíðar á ýmsa hluti er annað. Verkfærahljóðupptökur er þriðja. Svo er meira. Þessi plata var þessi tvö síðarnefndu. Eiginlega bara allt nema tónlist. Ég heyrði það strax og hugsaði: "Úff, þessa plötu þarf ég bara að þrauka í klukkutíma"
🙉
I finished the album because I'm no quitter, but what the hell is this nightmare-inducing stuff? Sometimes I'd experience those brief flashes of awe at whatever random sounds they managed to turn into music, but my question is... Why? Why use all those interesting sounds and instruments and make them sound like noise instead of anything even remotely melodic? And why would anyone willingly put themselves through an hour of something so unpleasant? I will never understand noise rock. 1.5 stars (0.5 for their undeniable creativity)
questo è ufficialmente l'album con la valutazione media più bassa di tutto il sito, e devo dire che se la merita. aiuto. gesù salvami tu.
Очень своеобразно. Они используют нестандартные инструменты, по типу бутылок или железных листов, из за чего звук получается грубым. Звучание мне не понравилось, слишком агрессивное для меня
Woof. I’m sure there is merit to this album. But it isn’t for me.
Noise 1/10
Noise
He empezado de forma positiva apreciando este álbum, de hecho la primera canción me ha parecido original y hasta divertida. Luego me he dado cuenta de que quedaban aún 50 minutos de disco. 1 estrella, pero, PERO, me parece que merece un puesto en esta lista. Es algo original e interesante aunque para la mayoría del planeta sea insoportable (la segunda canción del disco empieza con un solo de un minuto de un puto taladro).
Terrible. This LP is if someone asked “what if we make an album where it’s just a lot of industrial noises that hurt your ears that have no musical qualities, vocals that have no rhythm and are just screaming half the time, and clashes that somewhat resemble percussion?” And instead of being told, “no, that’s a terrible idea”, they were given a studio.
I am a bit disappointed that I knew before listening to this that it was the lowest rated album on the list, but I don't think it would've made a difference. I can understand it holds that position, but there have also been other albums on this list that could also be deserving of similar sentiments. While bold and definitely something else, it just doesn't turn out very well. Very harsh and dissonant in general, with lots of saturated screams and singing, mallets, and all sorts of percussions and noises. Barely anything resembles a traditional "song". I ended up turning it off half-way through since I felt it wasn't my thing, and it didn't show any signs of heading in a different direction.
Finally the worst rated album on this site but is it deserving of that position? Can it be worse than Kid Rock's "Devil with a cause"? First things first, the first track is really jarring and dissonant. Abrasive is the word I would use and I nearly turned it off right there and then. The rest of the album is a mixture of industrial noises and other effects. Sometimes i thought the rhythm patterns were quite good in tracks like "Kollaps" and "Rohrbombe". Maybe as a sample it would be good? All in all it is still a 1 star album but an interesting one. I'm guessing it was influential in some way and I always give brownie points for trying something different. Still better than Kid Rock!
I write this paragraph before listening to this album. Prior to this, I listened to four albums that were 4s in my book. Will this album make 5 in a row? Or will my 174th album reviewed break the streak and drop down below 4 or break the streak and achieve a rare 5. I have to admit that, based on the title (“Collapsing New Buildings” according to Brave's AI search), my expectations are not great. Having not read too much about the band beyond their name and their "experimental and avant-garde sound", I am hoping to be pleasantly surprised. After trying to listen to the album I can only rate this as awful. I only made it into the 6th song. I felt like I was walking through some modern art exhibit where this album was playing in the background. Dreadful. 1/10
Get fucked! Sorry. What a waste of my fucking time. Luke will disagree with me on the value of music like this. And I enjoy certain ambient music but this was a joke.
Absolute nonsense. Nothing in this album. Nothing to say. Get a grip.
Ear vomit
Nope
Oh god... What??
Didn't get this one, unfortunately. It was a bit of a struggle to get through. 1.25/5
this is next level crazy underground shit i was not prepared for i dont know what to do
Punk and industrial from Germany. Loads of German yelling on a building site. Certainly different. Feels like performance art. Screaming in an aquarium. Would work great in haunted house. They also do awful covers. No melody, screaming over industrial instruments. No doubt influential in the early 80s, but too removed from actual music for me.
literally industrial, and i dislike rammstein
you could get any information you wanted out of me by using this album. i’d probably fold during the first track.
I'd like to think that somewhere a foley artist working on an industrial dystopia film lost his master reel. This isn't it. It's worse.
I hated this. I couldn’t finish it. It was just noise. And not the good kind.
I fully understand why an album like this is on this list, and honestly, I respect it more than some other albums I’ve heard for being its own thing. That being said, I don’t have to like it at all! It’s a German dude screaming over sounds of power tools for an hour. That’s it.
People sporadically shouting in german while smashing plates. What the fuck.
Je comprends pourquoi cet album a un score si mauvais. Peut-être que ça a eu un gros impact sur la scène noise/expérimentale, mais c'est vraiment dur à écouter. J'ai honnêtement de la misère à voir ce qui rend cet album intéressant. 2/10
Jesus wept. ZERO Stars.
there wasn’t anything good about this really, it was just some noises and some german shouting not even singing, i see what they were trying to do and i can see where some influences can be made from it but not my bag
German noise rock is so tedious. Three songs in and I’m hearing something that sounds like a bubbling, clogged toilet with some simple banjo picking - oh, and here comes the random scream/wail and the shouting in German. It doesn't get better.
This band is just trying to give everyone a migraine. I could do better by myself in a metal shop. This band was ahead of NIN. Why torture us with this one?
Congrats on the creativity or whatever, but this is not for me lol
Unique instruments aside, absolute dogshit album.
Let the record show that I gave each song a chance and even the artists top songs. Outside of a few potentially polyrhythmic ideas, this had no artistic value to me
This album really made me question why we're doing this exercise. This is obviously intentionally discordant; it's the musical equivalent of the worst kind of modern art (they want you to say "it really makes you question: what IS music!?"). These guys are the Jasper Johns of whatever the hell genre you call this. It feels pointless even to give this 1 star, but what else am I supposed to do?
This is an audio-only recording of the Blue Man Group
I have to deal with parent teacher conferences, spirit week, student council, full time teaching, observing other teachers, making flyers, working the budget, creating a pep rally and grading papers. I just don't have time for experimental German music today.
I would've spent the whole time trying to put myself in the headspace of someone who would record this and say "Ja, das ist das Vermächtnis, das ich dieser Welt hinterlassen möchte" ("yup, this is the legacy I want to leave on this world") but I was too distracted by the nails scraping on chalkboards inside my head.
Ok I have no idea what this is supposed to be. Before I bash it - I want to make sure this is not supposed to be some sort of tribute to any horrific event from the past. I get them trying to do something different but still it’s trash. Want to give it 1 star but I hate trashing creativity. I’ll give it a 2. Nope slept on it. 1 star
This is absolute garbage.
After an awesome week with two of my all time favs...chaos was bound to happen. This gave me memories of being in a dentist chair and getting a root canal. Not very appealing to hear a drill running with crazy shrieks on the background. But I see that this needed added to the list as a great life lesson. Just not sure what it is. 😂✌🏻🥳🤮🤮🤮💩💩💩🍔💩💩💩💩👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
What. If they are trying to make a terrible sounding album, they did a great job. If anyone sincerely enjoys listening to this, I would suggest going to a doctor.
My dog was very upset about this being played. I agreed.
I would rather get kicked in the beanbag than listen to this again.
I don't care for industrial metal/music, and this didn't change my thoughts on it. Incoherently hard to listen to at times, it felt like my ears were being tortured for an hour. I will say that the first half was more jarring than the second, but neither were enjoyable. If you enjoy this music, good for you, but I will leave this to you and continue pursuing other music.
Definitely not the worst in here despite the 1 star!
Had to skip along thru this. I think percussionists could appreciate it better than me. Stomp the yard goes techno with Screeching screaming vocals.
Does have some interesting parts, but very hard to listen to.
Ok, that was horrible.
is this what construction workers get up to when no one's looking 😧 one point for inventiveness and sounding like they're having a great time
As soon as I saw a review comparing this to Hitler screaming into a microphone, I couldn't get the image out of my head. Even the mic quality is the same. And the drums, the relentless, dull, muted-yet-deafening miscellaneous percussion, the nightmare-inducing screams, the empty, brutalist soundscapes, the lack of any melody or harmony save for some scant, poorly-played horns, the repetition that makes me want to fold into a small cube and hurl myself off the conveyor belt... Let's just say there's a lot to be desired here. 1/5 Key tracks: none
I’d rather listen to someone dry heave for an hour
This album deserves a place in this book because no one would believe how awful this music is without actually hearing it. It's a German guy screaming while the other band members play random objects. This is not the forebearer to industrial music just because they use random instruments and refuse to put together a melody. This is a very bad album and it's okay to stop pretending this is good. We all know it is not. The only way I would listen to this album again is if after I die I go to Hell and some of these tracks are on Satan's Spotify playlist. From what I've heard over the last two hours, this is entirely a possible scenario.
Industrial, lots of banging and yelled vocals
Ok. So something's gone wrong as my actual recommendation was Dire Straits debut album, which I was ready to give 5 stars. This I gave a listen to instead and, well, I listened to it with my autistic daughter (I am too). We couldn't get through track one, or two because of sensory issues. Track 3 was like a bath preview, then bizarre screaming (so we skipped). Track 4, the heartbeat one, had potential until the drill. Then it petered off, then the drill came back. We skipped it. Track 5 was like a 4 year old found a cupboard of pans, and a wooden spoon, while their drunk grandparents watched on. We made it all the way through that as it's only short. The next one the drunk uncle entered the room and couldn't turn the TV on, while the kids carried on playing the pots, we skipped it, jet'm had essence of music..... Ah, it's a cover of je taime!!!! It's a bit shit though. Kollaps...the title track, sounds like the water hammer problem we have with our toilet, then.... The music started and made me realise how bad the recording is. Lo fi doesn't do it justice. It's incredibly poor. When it got going out sounds like a group of drunk people who have found someone else's instruments, we made it all of the way through this one. Sensucht started off brilliantly, a little hans Zimmer. Someone found the keyboard. But only one note, and they can't quite keep rhythm, another one we made all the way through, but it's only 1:20. Vorm krieg we made it all the way through too. Can't lie, Hirnsage was just shit. Ok. I've seen how many tracks are left, I've skipped through the last few they sound like the same sort of crap, building site noises, band practice mixed with basketball practice, more drills. I've had enough, I need a break. This album is the opposite of Dire Straits first album. It's like the musical equivalent of fingernails on a blackboard.
Annoying.
I would rather listen to this album than the Slim Shady album so that is enough for a 1 star and F+ rating.
First listen Saved 0/14 Top track: Kollaps
Unlistenable nonsense. I will say at least it was more interesting than the slipnot album. I would listen to this over that. To be clear, I hope to never listen to either ever again.
Unlistenable noise. Could not get through even two songs before I started skipping ahead. The title song was the least offensive, but absolutely nothing here would bring me back.
I always want to try and say at least one nice things about these albums. So here’s my one nice thing: I’m glad “music” like this exists so it could evolve into what would become the industrial sound. Now that we have that out of the way. Ooof. This really is a tough album to listen to. Was it really vital I hear this in my lifetime? At least I have a new contender for music to clear out a room at the end of a party.
Unlistenable.
It's definitely a noise that's about it. I might give it 1.5 Stars due to the creative effort to make all this noise, but there is no half star system here, so 1 it is
Nah
Brother. Makes you genuinely appreciate music. This feels not good. Worst Song: whatever the one where he starts drilling and banging on T-beams. Steph auf Berlin. Best Song: Vorm Krieg — was just a grainy recording of a wartime 40s/50s song for like ten seconds. My briefest and most appreciated reprieve. A ‘real best song’: Spionagedub — By far the most comprehendible song; has some form of rhythm, a lil funky. 1/5 (if this is the lowest I can go).
Inventive, radical, pioneering, influential. Excellent band name as well. Fully justified that this is on the list.
Still seven tracks to go but I can safely say: nope.
No.
no way Jose.... how did this get on the list ????
I'm not sure what about this qualifies as "must hear before I die." I'm pretty sure this is " must hear as you're checked into hell." Gotta give it to them though, I never really believed anything would make me want to go back and add a star for Bjork. Holy fucking shit this album is terrible.
What is this???
I don't know what I just listened to
Wow, this is by far the worst thing I've ever heard. It's actually painful to listen to. The only way I'd be able to finish this is if there was money or a gun involved. 0/10 Would I listen again? Absolutely not
Not really sure what the hell I just listened to for 56 minutes but that’s 56 minutes of my life that I won’t get back. This sounds like my 2 year old niece in the kitchen just banging on shot while my nephew screams over it in the most abrasive way. I’m sure there’s someone out there who loves this shit, I would like to meet them and pick their brain because maybe I’m missing something…
Wtf
I know it’s meant to be alternative and experimental, but it wasn’t for me and didn’t end up finishing the album.
STOP IT. Just stop.
A whole bunch of Home Depot commercial sounds. Glad this album made it onto the list with 0 Weezer representation. 1.2 stars
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
Unbearable
What? No. No. no no no. This was awful
Just no
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 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.
Could’ve died without listening to this
More noise.
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.
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.
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.
Unlistenable
This is the first album I couldn’t make it through. I felt like I was being trolled.
i mean it's a lot of cool sounds, but it's not for me.
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Not sure about this one
weird af. what is this album
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.
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.
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
i think this album does a fantastic job of displaying that not everything on vinyl should be classified as music
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.
Fuck everything about this. Music for the type of people I hate the most.
Not listenable
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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!
I'd rather listen to Bob Dylan.
What is this shite
Damn that was painful
I'm not smart enough to appreciate this.
so many screams.
Truly, should be zero stars.
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German industrial noise. Experimental but not a good
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.