Reviews (page 7 of 8)
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.
dannydevitonope.gif 0.3/10
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.
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.
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
i have a headache
100% not for me.
Proto Industrial Metal. Someone bought drumsticks but no drums. Didn't finish.
Fucking horrible it literally hurt my ears
Bauschutt, kann entsorgt werden! -5/5
No
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.
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.
Genuinely insane album. Deeply unserious.
Fucking terrible. All in german. Weird angsty synth screamy shit.
Experimental music from the 80s. What more you can say.
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?
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...
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
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
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.
No thank you
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
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Noise rock. bracing myself for a 1 but unclear. Yep 1.
Awful
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
genuinely the worst album i’ve ever had the misfortune of hearing. the creator of this book should be shot.
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).
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.
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
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
Who doesn't love some German, far-out-there industrial noise experimentation that sounds like a bunch of metal garbage cans being thrown around?
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
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
German noises
is this just Stomp, but German? Either way I feel I can recreate this album walking down the street with a few bags of recyclables.
I am not the audience for this album. Not to be snide but I’m not sure WHO the audience is for this album
This was absolutely horrible. How can jackhammers and grinding metal be considered music?
Somethings are so bad they are good. This is so bad it’s good and so good it’s absolutely terrible. This album sounds like if you gave a 5 year old LSD, all of the power tools at Lowe’s and every pan you had and told them to make music
If I want to hear drilling I’ll go down to the nearest construction site
Its reputation precedes it - I was pretty excited for this, knowing it as the lowest rated album here. And wow it did not disappoint - I feel like I’m tripping balls on an east Berlin building site. Found the cover of Serge Gainsbourg vaguely hilarious. Wish I was a special snowflake noise lover but alas, I am a hater.
Glad that's over. I stuck with it but it baffles me that that would be an album someone would think, hey, let's listen to that and stick it on. Very industrial, very noisy, very intense. Not very musical
This is currently the lowest rated album on the list. It takes "industrial metal" a bit too literally and just sounds like someone in a factory hitting parts of it and recording it...its bad, really bad. I'm not even sure I can use the line but it's better than Serge because I'm honestly not sure it is
Wow... well that was something.
Probably my least favorite album I have heard on here
Seriously? The worst fucking album I've ever had the misfortune to listen to.
Is this music? Or a collection of sounds? I’m really not sure at what point a “collection of sounds” crosses over into “music”. So I’m very confused by this listen. It doesn’t feel like music at all. How did a group of people come up with this, think it sounded good, and convinced a label to release it? And somehow there’s fans of this “music”? If I made this music and sent it to labels, no one would take me seriously. I don’t quite understand how this ever got out into the public; never mind how it got on this list. It just doesn’t make sense to me.
It may have given me a stomach ache
This album is theoretically very interesting, too bad it’s one of the worst listening experiences we’ve had in the entire list. 1/10
Awful, this album was like when you’re trying to ignore children who are just bound and determined to make you notice them.
If all the tools on a construction site violently murdered each other. Absolute trash.
I listened to as much as I can. Audio assault comes to mind. This was a chewy one, and not very enjoyable. Anyone in earshot had questions about this.
This one was so special I had to share it with my high school students. They asked if it was music. I wasn't sure how to answer.
I was worried when I saw this was 80s and German. I was even more anxious after reading the blurb about industrial noises from self-made music machines. All my fears were well founded. If I could give this negativ nein stars, I would.
There are so many amazing aspects to EdN’s history. - The band’s 1984 London show was cancelled 20 minutes in when they started drilling and jackhammering into the stage floor. They must have been overcome, channeling their inner Fraggle Rock Doozer, with inspiration from their core construction identity. - Blixa Bargeld teamed up with notoriously terrible Nick Cave in the early 80s and was a member of both bands until the early 2000s, when amazingly, she ditched Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds to focus on EdN. Hahaha Nick Cave, you suck! - Band member threw a metal bar into a booing crowd and got dropped from U2’s 1993 tour. This album is not music to me. There are rhythmic aspects to it, but music it is not. Considering how bad this album is, the most amazing aspect of EdN’s history is that they are still active and have been continuously together since 1980. I had to list to some of their follow on albums to find out if they stayed this awful. They turned into an electronic dominant sound at some point and it’s not half bad (see album Ende Neu) although my point of reference here is skewed. Music is a wild and fantastical art form. I couldn’t find it, but they did have a 2004 album where “blowing the plastic pipes with an air compressor, were greatly explored”. That sounds terrible but you never know.
A friend of mine noticed that Einstürzende Neubauten has released 12 studio albums over the last 40 years - surprising longevity for a band whose music sounds like a trash compactor mixed with a chainsaw. So I went to YouTube and listened to Einstürzende Neubauten's more recent work. Though some of their tracks dating from just a few years ago have a greater sense of melody than anything on "Kollaps", I still found the music grating.
Negativ Nein erinneret mich irgendwie a hörbuech sound design am afang. Ok, ich ghör scho nüt guets i dem. Da isch nöd eifach uf soundcloud, da isch uf Platte (iel). Wie mached die z füfte so Musig. Eine haut ufes Blech, eine labert öppis und de Rest? Ich glaub, ich chönt die Musig nöd vonere Parodie vo dere Musig unterscheide. Das heisst nöd, dass ich find die Musig isch nüt Wert, aber ich het es bizli Müeh zum Argument gege sone Ussag z finde. Worschindli als Live-Act spannender.
Okay, ähm s album isch überhaupt nöd mis. überhaupt nöd musikalisch asprechend, aber das wills au nöd sii. das isch keis album wo söll gfalle, no viel weniger als nine inch nails. aber trotzdem findi wills seh viel und schaffts nöd immer zum d hässigkeit überebringe, mer mues sich voll drigeh dasmer ihne d ernsthanftigkeit abchauft. s einzige wos überebringt isch s gfühl vonere berliner avantgarde-szene afang 80er wo sehr frei und experimentell zsii gsi schiint und s apokalyptische gfühl und d systemkritik wo mit dem gfühl und es paar textfragment mitchunt. vo dem her isch s storytelling und d lautmalerei guet gmacht und baustellegrüsch als usdurck vo verzwiflig isch sehr passend, sehr berlin und sehr avantgarde. s tönt halt afoch nöd so geil. ich entscheid morn bim ufwache weli bewertig dassi gib aber s isch nöd meh als es zwei als album.
0.01
I do not know what this is.
Only made it through a few songs. Though the concept of the album seemed cool, the execution was little more than noise
Tanz Debil - this is STOMP. raccoon music. made by raccon. made for ... to be played in a warehouse where no is. this is true avant-garde nonsense. (1/5 this is a song that Gir makes as a joke that everyone loves for some reason and there's a whole party just for this song. i don't think this is a joke) Steh Auf Berlin - right. it cannot be this for 3 fucking minutes. Thank Fuck. i would like to apologize to Bitches Brew KIND OF. oh i reached the horror movie part. oh don't make me change my mind on this. (1/5 nope not changing my mind. my Autism is making me want to die.) Negativ Nein - this is the "I'm Steve!" episode of sbemail of homestarrunnerdotcom. (1/5 go get two of your friends, find a cave, bring an echo mic toy for kids, a small electric keyboard that can play a repetitive beat and DIY) U-Haft-Muzak - i don't haft muzak. ich habe dasmetalnoizenshaft und shkreamenmoanen :) 1/5 Draussen ist Feindlich - i want to see what Lions Gate horror film this was made for. 1/5 Schmerzen horen - it's almost a song. it's really close to almost being a song. 2/5 for effort. Jet'm - laser sounds on a keyboard drum effect. 2/5 for laser. Kollaps - thank you for no more vocals right now. Iron Man by Ozzy if it never actually started. got a short break from vocals. now i get to be yelled at again. oh no this is 8 minutes. 1/5 Sensucht - i also love this one note in particular. 1/5 Hirnsage - (: 1/5 i can't do this anymore.
Nope, nope, nope. This kind of stretches the definition of music. Someone running a jackhammer and banging on trash cans while yelling in German is too experimental for my tastes. This is noise
I hated this.
Nazi banging pots and pans
F Tanz Debil (Debility Dance) 2 Steh auf Berlin (Wake Up Berlin) 1 Negativ Nein (Negative No) 1 U-Haft-Muzak (Detention Muzak) 1 Draußen ist Feindlich (Outside is Hostile)* 1 Schmerzen Hören (Hören mit Schmerzen) (Hearing Pain (Listen with Pain)) 1 Jet'm (Serge Gainsbourg)* 1 Kollaps (Collapse) 2 Sehnsucht (Desire)* 1 Vorm Krieg (Before the War)* 1 Hirnsäge (Brainsaw) 1 Abstieg & Zerfall (Descent & Decay) 1 Helga* 1 Schieß Euch Ins Blut (Shoot Yourself in the Blood) 1 Rohrbombe (Pipe Bomb)* 1 Futuristischer Dub (Futuristic Dub)* 1 Sado-Masodub (Sadomasochistic Dub) 1 Liebesdub (Love Dub)* 1 Spionagedub (Espionage Dub) 1 Mikrobendub (Microbes Dub) 1 Gastarbeiterdub (Guest Worker Dub) 1 Rivieradub 1 Lünebest 1 As I attempted to convince my friends to join me on this generator, I showed them this German-horror-porn as an example. Suffice it to say, none of them bought in. This is the lowest-rated album in the generator and deservadly so.
I guess you can use drills and fire alarms as instruments too.
Perhaps one of the worst things I’ve ever heard.
Essential Tracks: U-Haft-Muzak (Playlist because I have to) Just don’t listen to this!
Wtf
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I think that the title "Schmerzen Hören" (Hearing Pain) aptly describes the overall listening experience of the album. I also think that this was the intention of the artists (I deliberately do not refer to them as musicians). The only question that remains is: why?
I couldn't finish it, but I figure the first half informs the second half. I'm sure this is somehow important music, I just don't care.
Not my thing at all
A bit too German and experimental for me.
Actually the worst thing ive ever listened to. Not even music, just noise. Idgaf if thats the point, if you actually listen to this and enjoy it there is something wrong with you. Germans 🤝 committing atrocities
Hated it
Weird sounds.
Quite possibly one of the hardest albums I have ever listened to. I'm surprised I overcame my temptation to just stop listening to this album after song 2. I'm familiar with industrial music. Given the year, this band seems to have been one of the first bands to pave the way of industrial music.. But there isn't anything note worthy other than the fact it was new at the time. I can't even call this music. It's just noise albeit interesting noise.. But it's just random percussion and other random noises: chains clinking, drills drilling, metal being grinded, bent and/or waved... Bands like Rammstein and Nine Inch Nails must have taken influence from this band, among others such as Ministry, but added melody and created something tangible and worth listening to. The only positive: pioneer of industrial music. Everything else is negative. I wish I had not wasted an hour listening to this album. How they have ~100k monthly listeners blows my mind...
Wtf is this shit
Remember that scene in Home Alone 2, where Marv and Harry are on the other side of the die and Marv asks what’s that sound? And Harry replies: That was the sound of a tool chest falling down the stairs. Well that’s essentially what this album is. This album doesn’t belong on a list of albums to listen to before you die, this album belongs on a list of why did this get made. Whomever recommended it be added to this list loses all credibility they have in the music industry, and in fact they should be imprisoned for it as well. This album was trash, pure absolute trash. I wish I could give it 0 stars, but even that would be too much.
¿Ésto qué es? El que pone los discos se ha vuelto majara.
No thanks
Well I lasted a couple of songs. However, I don't feel my life is particularly enriched by listening to "one of the most shocking visions ever committed to vinyl" thanks! Is it not possible to score an album less than one star? Perhaps zero? Oh well, never mind. 0*.
Strong Industrial vibes out of the gate. I dig the background metallic thump, but kind of hate the splashing electric shock that forms the front and cente of Tanz Debil. Can only go up from here, right? Oh I was wrong. We really went straight for a jackhammer and man banging on metal pipes. This may very well be the first album on this list that I don't finish. Yeah, I can't do this one. I have a high tolerance for musical bullshit, but this has exceeded my limit. Were it just raw, caustic industrial sounds or reverberated screech in isolation I might have been able to do it, but my ears can't handle both at once. The fact that some "songs" on here have over 100k listens on Spotify might very well be an indication that our species is not worth saving. 1 / 5
I was just thinking the other day how we have only had English and Spanish albums. Oh crap, this is the lowest rated album globally on this list. Buckle up! Obligatory "would not do drugs" comment. Jet'm has an actual instrument! I could see this being the soundtrack to a movie that is just the "Lust" part of Se7en for an hour. Spionagedub and Rivieradub aren't terrible. If more of the album was like that then I could take it more seriously. There's already too much music to listen to, I don't think I need to listen people push the boundaries of what can be considered "music".
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Oh wow this is hurting my head. Not sure if I can take 56 minutes of this. There is so much screaming and banging. LOLOL someone in the global reviews said it was thought-provoking. Cut my ears off please. Is this what it was like to live in Nazi Germany as a Jewish person? This is what I feel like meth is like but in music form. Honestly I'm not finishing this. I've heard enough and don't see it turning around. Not wasting my time getting yelled at on a Wednesday morning.
Please no
This album is hell. It sounds like Hitler and power tools had a baby
Industrial krap. Just what I want to listen to after 1 hour at Beaumont lab and coming home to lack of electricity. 1 Point because that’s the least I can give. This is NOT musik.
No
Absolutely not
Fuck this noise I mean there has been some bad shit on this list but at the very least that shit resembles music. I don't see how the author could possibly get to track 3 and not only want to hear more, but then put it on the list. One thing that will come from listening to 2 tracks of this shit is it clarifies what is really worth a 1. In the past I've given Kings of Leon, Mariah Carey and A-ha 1s but that stuff while bad is at least music or an attempt at it. And what kind of drugs does someone even take to this noise?
While you can find musicality in every track, this is definitely a sound experiment with industrial tools, voices calling out. None of these tracks will end up on a playlist of mine. I was very curious to hear what was coming next. Unintentionally absurd and humorous. High 1?
Is this here as some kinda mistake
just don't
hilariously grating rhythmic industrial noise with some random german wailing. I mean I like Stomp as much as the next guy but c'mon. almost laughed out loud multiple times with the random screeches and banging on various metal objects
I really wanted to give this as much of a chance as I could but I just can’t, I understand the artsieness of the album but I completely get why it’s the lowest rated album and honestly so far I pretty much agree 1/5
something something essential to Industrial music blah blah blah In all honesty, if I wanted to hear metal clanging on metal, I'd head over to the nearby construction site. Favorite track: Tanz Debil (favorite is stretching it.)
osea supongo que esto le importa a alguien pero la verdad que a mi no. lo siento tanto pero 3/10
Huh 1
Rammstein & Kraftwerk get drunk and go to Home Depot (Haus Depöt??) to record an album is pretty much the only way I can describe this Awful
Nope.
I accidentally hit another song while a couple of tracks into this and I didn’t go back
This is album is a strange one. In one sense it is neat for exploring noise, but at the same time the album kinda sucks. It's mostly just banging noises and german men screaming. There are some tracks with a distinct rhythm, but practically no melody. If Jerry Garcia can say that rap isn't music because of a lack of melody then I feel he would say the same about this. Also I'm pretty sure listening to this album is what made Kanye West decide that he liked hitler
Just like being in a construction site. Feel like my ears are bleeding. Could not finish this.
absolutely could fucking not with this album
Nein!
It's surely an important milestone in music, however it's not really pleasant to listen.
what the fuck. This reminds of that episode of Friends where Ross plays random noises on his keyboard. And yet somehow... this is worse. Who the fuck buys this album and why is it in this list?
sorry dude this was trash
I understand the influence, but this is not listenable.
I'm sure there are things about this album that have a redeeming quality if you know the language. But I don't so my entire reaction to this is just 'WTF am I listening to and when will it end?'
I didn't even know Construction Site Metal was even a genre before listening to this album.
Time and a place for everything I guess. If I was wanting to extract state secrets from foreign nationals with loose regard for international human rights: this is a real winner! Listen in the background while I cook my tea? Not so appropriate.
What the fuck lol
I hope you enjoy the sounds of jackhammers and random screaming, because that's what this offers.
Not a fan at all.