Rock Bottom

I’ll give credit where it’s due. This has a very specific vision. Unfortunately, that vision is a foggy jazz dream someone should’ve woken up from sooner. It goes nowhere, slowly. One spin was enough. I’m good. Spins: 1 Playlist Additions: - Sea Song

This was probably the worst suggestion I’ve gotten so far. This album was absolutely garbage. Other than being bizarre, I can’t say anything else about it. Alife was when I stopped listening. I would give this album a 0 if the site would let me.

not very enjoyable.

A bunch of goddamn noise with a British accent. Aptly named. Those English are so clever

There's nothing worse than listening to someone who is clearly deeply talented and boundlessly creative make something you spend every second finding increasingly unpleasant.

This album is horrible.

All I can figure is Rock Bottom made the 1001 Must Hear List because of the backwards singing on Little Red Robin Hood Hit The Road, the out of tune piano, the out of tune horns, the out of tune something squeaky (maybe a clarinet), and the weird gibberish lyrics. Oh, and Bobby’s a paraplegic. (1.1*s) a bit too artsy for me…

This started out as something different and a little intriguing. Unfortunately the novelty wore off very quickly and it mostly devolved into somewhat obnoxious and drawn out noise. This kinda felt like a jazz musician informally warming up and experimenting without realizing it was being recorded for a release. Pretty weak when said and done. 1.23 stars

Got through 2 songs and turned it off

Just strange

If there was ever a - I don’t know why this is on the list!! - it would be this album. Just blah.

Well see now I’m just confused on how this is considered music. It sounds like someone grabbed a kazoo from a cranium game and just slapped a record label on it. no thank you.

Terrible

I know it’s an inspiring story about overcoming but the album still sucks.

So weird, some noise on the first few songs that made me feel like I had tinnitus. Another song made me think of when Ross in Friends has his ‘sound.’ Overall, chaotic

very short not really my jam

This one's a joke, right?! Never heard of him and it's now obvious why. Thankfully it was short but this has no place on the T1001. I was shocked to see nearly 2M people have listened to the opening track, "Sea Song", dreadful song. 300-500K listens on the other 5 tracks, so not all that popular considering it's been out for 50 years. There's NO ONE on earth who could sit AND ENJOY "Alife" and it's awful horns and incessant piano banging. WTF? This sounds like a guy in his mom's basement laying down tracks he's had trapped in his brain. It's not musically sound, his voice is off kilter and not enjoyable, there's no glue in the song structure and if he's telling a story I ain't hearing it. Awful, terrible really, I'd give this one star just because I can't give it less. This should be removed and replaced by an album with more merit.

Oh my god, this is so boring!

Too weird for me

A little to weird music wise for me. I couldn't finish a single song. Im sure it is for someone, but that person is not me.

"art" "rock"

Emmmm, no. Wtf.

Who is this guy and why the hell have I been made to listen to multiple of his albums? Why does he have albums? Did no one in his life love him enough to pick a different hobby? Pottery or stamp collecting, perhaps, anything that doesn’t involve him singing!

I have forgotten about this already. The only rock bottom that I want to see is from Dwayne Johnson

What the hell was that about??

Not really my type of music, but not absolutely terrible.

Some beats were good but this album didn't interest me.

At least it was short. This really doesn't go anywhere for me.

And I again I say "What the fuck is even this?!"

Not for me, but surprised to see this came out in 1974 after listening to it

Rock bottom, indeed. Skip this one if you don't like meandering, maudlin, quasi-orchestral humdrum.

No. Garbage. Probably one of the worst things I've listened to during this journey.

Not for me this

Apropos album title

I have an addiction to forcing myself to finish things that I don’t like, and this album is my "Rock Bottom"

Song: sea song this song is weird and creepy i never heard of this song before so i do not really like it if they made the beat and the music faster and not scary it would be good and if the person who is singing this makes is happier and like actually is singing it faster it would be much better Song : last straw this song is too slow and too like sad it makes me feel like have no energy so i would say it is weird and the singing does not match the song and the music is louder than the lyrics so i can barely hear the person singing i do not recommend this song and this album this much already Song: little red riding hood hit the road this song sounds a little harsh and it is kind of weird so i do not really recommend it and each song has the same beat and music and the music is always squeaky like the cant play it i do not recommend this album i would give this like a 1 star because it is very weird

I don't like this song it is boring and I don't like how he sings and it sounds weird . the second song was so boring I did not like it . I like the third one better because of the beat but he sounds weird

I don't like this because his voice is very scratchy and the instruments sound very weird. I would not recommend this to someone else because I don't think they would like it. I give this a solid 1 star.

I don't like it its not something I would like listen to and I don't like it the second song I don't like the third song I also hate

What the florp

Rock bottom by name, rock bottom by nature. Never heard such rubbish. Who chooses this shite. Was the cover picked from a school prize draw... of 3 year olds.

What the hell even is this? This album makes no goddamn sense as music, but I can't even describe exactly what's wrong with it. I guess I certainly respect it, and I can't say it's bad, but… what

I would like to stop hearing albums by this guy now.

What a waste of time! 1/5

Not melodic enough to be pleasant or enjoyable. Not rythmic enough to be enticing, not psychedelic enough to be enlightening or concious. Certainly not experimental and progressive enough to be unique or stand out from the lot of 70s contemporary. Not artistic enough to be avant garde and definitely not good. A swirling soup of sounds with an occasional shred of talent and genius lost to the scalding broth. I haven't read a convicing case as to why this album belongs here.

Rock Bottom is right. Who is listening to this more than once? It’s lukewarm garbage.

It’s like someone just sang and then found random music to put underneath.

sounds and noise

Not sure this is music.

interesting, not good

Zero if I could

Somewhat relaxing album. I liked the horns from the "little red riding hood hit the road". Those Alfie songs were very bizarre for my taste. Not something I plan to ever listen to again but I could imagine people liking it.

I had to turn it off halfway because it got on my nerves.

Albums that make me question the critical thinking of the authors of this book. Aboslute horseshit album. Too bad I cant rate it zero stars

Very boring

an accurately titled album. I understand wanting to stand out and present how different you are, but this is just Revolution No 9 cranked to 11. mashing keyboard keys and playing sections in reverse, for what? How quirky. Dumb, lame, and stupid.

Fuuuuuck off with shit like this. Truly the Rock Bottom for this list. At least the other 1 star albums don’t take themselves so seriously and present themselves with so much self importance. Awful

No me dio mas

What even is this??

One of the biggest discrepancy between quality of music and singing on this list so far (which means a lot, because it's album no. 1000). I liked the instrumental parts, a fresh look at the jazz genre, very interesting bits. I couldn't focus on that though, because Robert, or whoever was singing, spoiled that experience. This is how I imagine myself sound when singing, which is one of the worst thing you can say to an artist. Good intentions, terrible output.

כאילו שמו לי אם די במים כן מעריך את המוזיקליות ואת הצורה שבה האלבום בנוי

This album is thankfully short, but unfortunately not short enough. I don't see how this is an album I HAD to listen to before I died because it made me feel psychotic while listening to it. Would not recommend.

Rock Bottom indeed... Dire.

Dude likes to moan

I recently got Soft Machine's Third, so, being that this guy is in that band, it comes as no surprise that this is terrible.

meh

Unfortunately, I really struggled to connect with this album. None of the tracks stood out to me, and I couldn’t find one that I truly enjoyed. I’m honestly baffled by its inclusion in the Top 1001 Albums of All Time list. While I can understand that musical tastes are subjective, this album didn’t resonate with me on any level, and it didn’t offer much in terms of innovation or lasting impact. It left me wondering what made it so highly regarded.

I’m not sure what surprises me more. The fact that this artist was able to discover the sound of screaming hot aggressive gonorrhea being poured into your ears, then record it and release it as an album, or that someone heard this cacophony of horrible noise and decided it belonged on this list for other people to be tortured by. I would rate -5 stars if possible as I feel I am owed them back for having been subjected to this caterwauling

lixo

Another album that would probably benefit from the use of mind-altering drugs...

Genuinely painful

Forgot about every single thing that happened here soon as it was over

Sounds like lads high in a studio making shit. Some moments you think 'oh this could be something', then they honk a bicycle horn off key.

Horrible vocals. Did not care for the music. Perfect title.

Rock bottom is listening to this album through to the end. This guy's voice is best suited for silent mic karaoke. My toddlers have written better melodies on their Fisher Price xylophone, which is the instrument I'm pretty sure was used in the recording of this album. That and ballon rubber. I surrender, just make it stop. 1/5 because 0/5 isn't an option.

"I feel music should make you happy, make you relaxed, pump you up, make you think, make you inspired. I feel music shouldn't make you feel anxious, on edge and angry, which is what this album did to me. Ross from Friends on keyboards with a guy off the street singing over it. The good thing about listening to 1001 albums is that there are the odd person/group that I have never ever heard of. There's a good reason I haven't heard of Robert Wyatt or Rock Bottom, the album is horrendous. I read more about him and his history and ending up in a wheelchair is not an excuse for releasing crap music. The equivalent of a monkey throwing faeces at a canvas and calling it art. "

Oh mein Gott. Langweiliger geht überhaupt nicht. Mist!

this list has hit Rock Bottom, three 1 star albums in a row must power through, better music ahead

Screechy, twaddly nonsense.

Rock Bottom is right. It can’t get worse.

Challenging! Not for me! All the parts of weird music that I dislike stirred up into one stew, with none of the parts of weird music that I *do* like to provide relief.

2 minutes in and it already feels like forever some wanker even compares it with kid a but this shit really makes me suck a lemon 1/5

Apparently the dude was in a bad accident right before he made the album and the album is a champion of overcoming struggle and the first platinum album from a paraplegic. But it sounds like an album that was made by a paraplegic. "Sea Song" feels like he was recreating the accident that paralyzed him.

unlistenable. i'm normally a big lover of folk music but i find his voice and lyrics so grating and uninspired i wanna throw myself into a wall. boo.

Dogshit- fitting name for the album

Some fun experimental bits throughout. But man, these vocals are not good.

The best part of the album is that it is less than 40 minutes.

I don't get blues scatting, I don't get it even more when it isn't harmonious. Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road #1...was she on LSD? Alife turned into some weird folk cult chant where an animal was being sacrificed. Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road #2...The end was okay, but it was like three songs mixed together. But then the lyrics those just went way way left.

I imagine this is what hitting rock bottom sounds like musically, so I guess if that's what the concept was, kudos. But this was almost unlistenable to me.

I don't blame Robert Wyatt for making this album full of noodling nonsense. I blame the project for including this album - so many other good experimental works came out in 1974 that could have been included instead of this one. Weather Report Mysterious Traveller would be a good choice! 1⭐️

Terrible. How this appears on a list of the 1001 to listen to, is sure an error.

1/5 terrible

The title is apt; this may be the rock bottom of this list. It's not good and it's not even particularly unique or interesting, just pretentious and boring.

This album made zero sense to me. Did not like one second of it.

Terrible.

Just a lot of noises.

No.

I can't believe this is rated higher than The Incredible String Band on this site. To me they're almost opposite sides of a coin. They both have a weird, avant-garde style, but where The Incredible String Band does this in a pleasant and fun way, this is just boring, repetitive, and off-putting. I can even appreciate weird for weird sake, but this isn't even that. It's like it's trying too hard to be innovative and just became a big mess. I really wanted to like this at least somewhat, but the album got worse as it went along. Even with other bad albums I can hear its influence in later works or some fresh concept or creativity, but not this. I appreciate the story of Robert Wyatt in how this album evolved from before and after his accident, but that's the only positive thing I can say about it. This album just isn't good. At all.

UMA MERDA SEM TAMANHO, E NEM BEBADO ESSA MERDA DESCE

Insufrible. Y eso que son menos de 40 minutos. Soy alguien que le gusta la música experimental, ambient, bandas sonoras y mil cosas raras, pero esto me supera.

No thanks!

Sounds like I’m at an open mic and that’s not a good thing

I’m not trying to censor, but mankind would benefit from this being wiped off the earth and never heard from again. Utter chaos and does not qualify as music as far as I’m concerned. I feel less whole and human after attempting to digest any of it.

Terrible.

Hard no. This is bad prog. How this made the list and a great band like Tool was ignored is shameful. This album is another reason why punk needed to happen.

Actively unpleasant to listen to.

I could not stand to finish any one of the songs on this album.

I would quite happily filter this pish out of the rest of my life. Reluctant to give it any stars at all.

weirdo music desu

Selten hat ein Albumname die Beurteilung so gut beschrieben wie dieses. Es handelt sich um zusammenhangloses Gelaiere und Gequitsche. Ich vermute der Interpret hielt sich für ein Genie, ich halte ihn für einen Wahnsinnigen.

Is this a joke? A paraplegic drummer records an album produced by another drummer. You'd have had equal success giving a bag of broken rubber chickens to a 3rd grade class and telling them to make an album. In fact, I'm fairly certain I heard a gaggle of broken rubber geese at one point, and I thought to myself, "So this is why they don't make rubber geese." I was saving a 1 star review for Kid Rock, but this gets one too. Though I'd rather listen to this than Kid Rock. I'd most prefer the 3rd grade class with recorders and rubber chickens.

Not for me

More orchestrated sound pretending to be music. This album was unique though, in that every track was horrible, but in a totally different way from the previous one.

I'd like this album better if it weren't in English. OK, that was snarky, but let me explain. I have real trouble turning off the part of my brain that turns sounds into words and words into sentences and sentences into stories. So Wyatt's under-enunciated and occasionally under-supported vocals, produced like clouds and mixed too soft for my taste, are a big challenge for me. But when I was able to corral that part of my brain, and accept that the lyrics are either gauzy and surreal or just nonsense holders for vowel sounds, I could try to appreciate this album like I would any other art music in a language I don't speak. And there is some interesting sonic stuff going on in the instrumentals, especially in "Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road". And then a snippet of English, or English-sounding phonemes would get through, and put my teeth on edge again. Ultimately there's nothing here worth my effort. You know those songs on psychedelic albums that exist between the radio hits to give you time to decompress and just sort of float along? This is 40 minutes of those songs, building up to something that never comes (or maybe leading out of an awesome song you missed).

Ouch. I did not enjoy this at all. Slow, unpleasant voice, some occasional irritating sounds. Not for me.

Nah

Avant Garde. Lots of grunts and winding vocals. Pretty sure Robert is getting pleasured by someone in Alifib. Not, uh, my jam...

The review is in the album title. How is this on this list?!

Noodling that isn't for me.

I usually like weird psychedelic music, but this was too much even for me 😂

Weird edgelord pick

Severely not a fan!

Couldn’t make it all the way through on this one

Not a fan. Tried 3 songs. Annoying this is the first album generated for me. Heh, I’ll stick it through.

He's such an interesting, influential & all-round good guy & you so want this to be good, but I'm afraid it's awful!!

Really weird

He's right

Nah, not for me sorry.

This is some real art house bullshit.

Poor guy

The opening track should have been titled "Sea Sick". That pretty much sums up the entire album: appropriately titled "Rock Bottom". This album is equivalent of going to someone's home for a dinner party and having the host's child be a massive, loud, pain in the ass. Everyone at the party wants to kill the little monster, all while the host beams in pride and brags about their spirited child. I hope there's a special place in hell for the moron who put this on a "must hear" list. ZERO stars.

1.5 not good

1.5

Een soort huismerk Bowie. Een beetje spookachtig theatraal geneuzel, wat ingewikkeld en met een aardig hoog ckv gehalte. Een net niet goed gestemd pianotje, letterlijk gekwaak, geschaterlach ofzoiets. Snobkeuze, kutmuziek.

I did not enjoy the album. it sounded too whiney. I did not bother finishing the album

It’s not often that I say myself, I’d rather not go on living than have to do it listening to this. In that context, I think it’s a testament to my fortitude that I got 1:30 into the second track.

Complete crap start to finish

I'm sure "talk about ROCK BOTTOM" jokes have been made so thoroughly that I'm ashamed to mention them, but sometimes cliches are razor apt.

The info about this album is better than the album

The obnoxious equivalent to interpretive dance apparently is experimental Rock.

Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom proves that putting various noises together does not make music! The mindless mumbling and discordant piano were distracting as best. The album was sort of deceiving; it dabbled in psychedelic and progressive rock with an interesting mysterious sound, but then it would devolve into nonsense. Anyway, I'm glad Wyatt had the foresight to keep this under forty minutes and not subject me to a double album. I couldn't tell you why this album is included on this list.

Imagine Renaissance Faire-loving art school students who have a band. Half of them like jazz music and half of them like space age ambient music and they can't decide which sound is a better fit for their band. They get together and noodle and experiment regularly in a paint-fumed garage. None of them are really vocalists, but that doesn't stop them; they certainly like to strain their way through some discordant vocal noise and mumbles, anyway. They take every psychedelic drug available to them and then proceed to make an album. That is what this album is. And really, I don't know what else to say about it. I don't know about rock bottom, but we are definitely scratching near the bottom of the barrel with this one, aren't we?

I don't like being this blunt or negative in my reviews.....but....I have no idea why this is on this list. I don't find many redeeming qualities. I won't come back to this.

A little too chaotic and esoteric for me; not a fan. I could barely get through it.

Although a fan of the "Canterbury scene", I've never really been a fan of Robert Wyatt's music or his voice.

Album 450 of 1001 Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom Rating : 1 / 5 This just left me confused. What did I listen to? Classified as 'Rock' but I couldn't find it in there.

Pink Floyd's legacy. Please update your site so we can give albums zero stars.

There’s some decent Music hidden amongst all the discordant strains and horrendous vocals… not nearly enough.to make it worth while though !

This felt too eccentric even for me. I felt as if I was listening to the mind of a madman, or something straight out of Alice in Wonderland. This is where I feel more experimental genres go from boundary pushing to just incomprehensible. Not a pleasant listen, and not much going on

Interesting music. Not bad.

Not good. The worst of psychedelic art/prog nonsense. It's what I assume a bad acid trip is like. What's with the backward tracks? I had a hard time listening to it forward. 1.5

At several points in the album, it sounded like they recorded a bunch of instruments falling down the stairs. Those moments were the highlights.

Album title fits the album perfectly. Because this is utter doo doo. Rock bottom indeed. 1/5

Second day in a row of something too ~artsy fartsy~ for me.

I guess this joke must have been done a billion times, but this album was certainly the embodiment of rock bottom. It started off really bad with the first song and it's atonal quirks and overall... not good things. Then I noticed on Spotify that it was the most listened-to song of the album. Yikes. It got worse pretty fast after that, with 'Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road' and 'Alfie' probably being the epitome of badness. There are just so many elements that are out of key etc. which makes it very unpleasant to listen to. And the songs drag on forever as well... blah. You have to give him some props for trying out something different, but it didn't work out at all. Or maybe it's the genre, I don't know. Definitely one of the weakest albums on the list so far. And it's a bit frustrating as well, because you can hear that he's a quite capable singer, he just chooses to make it bad like this. Makes you wonder what could've been if it was different.

Psychadelic noodlnig. I just don't get it. I mean it's different and all, so props for trying but just not something i could get into. I feel some 1 star albums are just bad or bland this was just weird and not something i enjoyed.

"I can't forsake you or forsqueak you" the fuck is bro on about

At first I thought that it was a bit mad. However after reading Robert Wyatt’s story of how he got drunk, fell out of a 4 story window, lost the use of his legs and worked on some songs whilst “in a trance” at hospital, I get it. It’s certainly experimental and Wyatt doesn’t have the most incredible singing voice, but the album links with the personal story which makes it rather poignant. Music ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lyrics ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Vocals ⭐️⭐️ Update: I’m now listening to “Alife” and I take it all back. This is now moving into the realms of poor music. When I started this I vowed to complete each album. This is a chore. Ok I got to the end. It’s not for me. It might be for some people, but it’s not for me.

Well, there is a reason that 99.9% of the US has never heard of Robert Wyatt and I wish I was still in the majority.

nick mason momentti, momentuaalinen hetki... valitettavasti vihaan ehkä jokaista asiaa tässä. paskainen keihäänkärki on tällä kertaa vokaalit, jotka mikälien alueen englanninaksentti amplifioi saamaani nautintomuutta mitä herran kimisevä huhuseva lauluääni jo valmiiksi tuottaa.. musiikki ei ole millään tavalla kiinnostavaa, eksperimentaalista, ja valitut äänet tuunaukset fiilikset wibat mitä instrumenteista lähtee ovat enemmän ärsyttäviä kuin tyydyttäviä.. kaheli partamies...... nick mason nick mason nick mason nick mason nick mason nick mason nick mason nick mason nick mason paras ihminen ehkä historiassa mutta legendat, sankaritkin välillä mukana jossain turhassa. hyvä metatarina tämän takana, koskettava, mutta musiikki on tässä vaan paskaa vaikka olen antanut monelle kummastukselle niitä korkeita arvosanoja a last straw

I would love to meet the individual that gives this a 5 star rating because holy shit this was some weird stuff. Not really sure how it’s music but it apparently is. Don’t have much to say other than it was pretty weird. 1.8/10

Well someone dropped acid and thought they made a good album. When they sobered up I guess they still thought they should put it out in the world. 1.5 stars. only because some of the instrumentals aren't terrible but I hated this album.

You're kidding, another Robert Wyatt album?! This sounds like something a kid would make when using a piano for the first time. "You just don't get it man, real music is arrhythmic, aimless, and a-tonal." Fuck off.

when i got shleep on here a couple weeks ago, i figured that Robert wyatt's voice must have changed as he aged, or he was doing a little late career experimentation or something. apparently, no, he's just been rocking with this god awful vocal style the whole damn time

Almost unlistenable. Parts of this (large parts) are barely music to my ears. It feels deliberately unapproachable.

You can die without listening to this album... Actually you'll feel like dying while listening to it...

This was pretty bad. Rock Bottom is a pretty fitting name

What is this and why do I have to listen to it?

He was definitely going for something. I don't know what that is and I didn't like it.

Didn't like this one at all. Not sure what I'm supposed to get from it, or how it was supposed to do anything but annoy me.

This was perhaps worth listening to for a few music lovers when the album was released, typical 70s arrangements paired with bad vocals. But I don't want to listen to that in the year 2024. That's why this is a top 10 album of the 1001 albums that are no longer worth listening to.

Not good.

I got a headache while listening to it. Was it the album's fault? Maybe not entirely, but I wasn't digging it.

I very rarely rate things 1 star based on the music alone. But this is a bad album. And Jethro Tull already did folksy prog - and better.

Nah. This ain't it.

I've tried with Wyatt, and I'll try again but this is painful stuff.

An obscene amount of noise

This guy can't sing. and im glad I had some data analysis to distract me through this, because it was a chore to listen to.

Oh my. I like a bit of prog rock in the right circumstance, but this sort of bollocks just proves why the Sex Pistols were so damned important. Horrible album. Really unpleasant.

That was some complex weird shit. Not my cup of tea

This is not music, this is torture

Garbage

No.

This truly is a rock bottom for me

Música estranha para gente esquisita. Inglês. Produtor do disco é o baterista do pink floyd. Progressivo, com uma mistura de ritmos. Experimentaçao musical. Melodia lembra David Bowie. Na minha opinião irrelevante musicalmente para atualidade. Não vou ouvir novamente!

When the sound poetry started mixing with q children's bike horn, my soul left my body.

Answers the age-old question “What if Peter Gabriel sucked?”

Don’t hug me I’m crying AH MUSIC, shit gave me schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s. Definitely Rock Bottom. First song was kinda good tho.

#163. This album kinda just sucks, doesn't it? 1/5: thankfully short

Weirdness

What in the ever living fuck is this. This might just be the worst I album I have been given yet. Every song is completely incoherent, it feels like each instrument was recorded for a different song, and they just took a random one of each and just overlayed them onto a song. And that fucking synthesiser in the back ground, constantly just there playing an annoying riff and never going away. Also this guy cannot sing. I really don't like his voice, it's so unsettling in a way that I can't quite describe. I get that this is experimental, but there is a fine line between being innovative, and being insufferable and annoying. There is not even a moment on this album that I have anything positive to say about. This album truly is music at its rock bottom.

01) Sea Song - 5,5 02) A Last Straw - 5,0 03) Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road - 4,0 04) Alifib - 5,5 05) Alifie - 3,5 06) Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road - 4,0 TOTAL: 4,58 (46/100) Ok, the music is slower and his way of singing is special. Like Radiohead before Radiohead. But what I found annoying are his "wahwahwahwah" wailings in almost every song so far. It's irritating. The music is in places almost dissonant. It's like bad jazz. And I hate jazz. Is song number 3 starting to be played backward halfway through? It's like I entered the red room in Twin Peaks. Song number 4 is kind of tolerable from the middle to the end. And what the hell are those noises at the beginning of the song number 5? Like someone is cleaning windows... OK, this one was the final nail in its coffin. It's a ★ for me. I don't think song number 6 can save this. Is this Mike Oldfield on guitar? Oh, yes it is, I'm good :-) But the song is not. Bye Felicia!

Did not enjoy this one very much - too many vocalizations and strange melodies.

Did he fall? Or did they push? Jazz-folk-foodeli Fook rite off.

My goodness this is bad. Frequently dissonant music accompanying vocals that range from terrible to truly awful. I'd like to say its creativity and originality kept me listening to the end, but it was my OCD, the basic pursuitist nature of my personality, and my dedication to this project.

long self-indulgent tracks of garbage

I normally like like weird. I mean most people tell me I love weird music. But not this. I do not know what is appealing about this, I normally like this sound in fact it is one of my favourites but it is like he just tried to butcher it at every chance. His voice is awful just because it's British doesn't make it good. The constant use of what I can assume is a voice changing thing going wa wa wa is dreadful. This came out the same year Kraftwerk released Autobahn and I feel bad for any English people who had to do with this Avant-Garde instead of Kraftwerk. This is one of the highest rated albums on RYM and usually I liken myself to these people and often agree but I just can't here. Going to have to be 1 star for the bad mood it put me in.

Gave it a few tries but even as a Radiohead-fan I can´t get used to this. I really can´t stand this vocals and had to rate it down further just because of the voice.

Absolute drivel. If this had been the first album on the list I'd have given up on this project immediately

It’s shit

Quessé que jviens d'écouter ? Confusion x1000

No

Probably the most ridiculous album I’ve ever heard.

Wow. Nobody can play the squeaky balloon quite like Robert! Honestly, I can think of a lot of different albums I would rather have listened to instead of this.

Very odd?

Wow... this is the first album on the list I couldn't finish. This is truly terrible.

I don’t even remember anything from it. Probably not a good sign

Is it music because someone is making musical sounds with their voice? Because instruments are being used?

Lo peor que he escuchasdo en mi vida

Not my rhythm

I'm like, what the actual fuck? This made me have bad acid flashbacks. Talk about trash.

Appropriate title. When you think it can’t get any worse, it does. My favorite part of this album was when it was over.

Sounds like he was just noodling around while high

Didn't know the artist Robert Wyatt. Sea Song - sounds like he's pissed drunk. A last Straw - like improv on a piano Little red riding hood - he's on drugs now. Alifib - he's now incoherent on meth. Alfie - I give up. This is simply a crap album from a drugged up Mr. Wyatt who thinks he's an artist. He's not. 1 star

I do not like this album. It seems to be far too experimental for me to see much merit in it. Don't enjoy his voice, the lyrics are hard to decipher at all most of the time and it's mostly just keyboard tones and noises. Luckily, it was only 1/2 hour.

progr., experimentell, 1974 -> 1

The best thing I can say about this album is that it's only 33minutes long. The rest of it is just awful.

It a fan of this genre of music. Good musical talent but a bit erratic and disorganized.

No thank you

I was stoked I've never heard of this before. I usually get into odd stuff, but I really didn't like this at all. Sounds like a combination of Robert Dawson in a fever dream, new Brian Eno, and Teeth of the Sea songs being played over each other. Not the interesting discordance I would have liked, this is a cacophonous mess.

Couldn't stand the voice. Didn't manage to get through the second song

Like a Bowie impersonator singing over Radiohead impressions. I had a headache before I started listening, and without an inch of hyperbole, it got worse over the course of the album. Objectively speaking, it's probably not actually a 1 in terms of quality, but I just really disliked it. 21/12/23

Awful. Just awful. No extra credit for having a self-inflicted injury.

One of those albums that’s on here for a laugh. I like those ones occasionally. Like a mate slipping you a CD and saying “You need to hear this” “Oh, is it good?” “No, but it’s f_____g mad.”

No thanks.

Possibly the single worst album I've ever listened to.

Oof. These vocals are tough to listen to. They’re high-pitched, grating and frequently off key. The music occasionally has some interesting stuff going on but the it’s hard to get past the singing. And anyway, the music doesn’t particularly call to me either. It’s got a queasy feeling to it. I get the impression that this is exactly the way Robert Wyatt wants the music to sound but man, I’m really not into it. I’m enjoying these horns on “Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road.” This is a cool song. I don’t totally love it (again, the vocals) but it has a certain power. Some interesting music in the second half, including experimental free jazz on a few songs. It mostly feels like a backdrop though. And usually what's going on in the foreground (like the German-accented vocals at the end of the last track) isn't something I'm interested in.

Hadn't heard of this guy or this album... and as I listened to it, I thought... what the f@@k is this sh!t£????? Who the hell needs to listen to this??? I mean seriously??? This is bonkers nuts rubbish.. no sane person ever needed to hear this!!!

It’s like this dude heard Pink Floyd and said “what if I just kept the annoying shitty parts?”

What kinda junk is this?

Bad

Ah huh ah huh huh ah aha ah huh huh ahhhhhhhh huh ahhh huh!!- Real lyrics from “Sea Song”. Wap wap wap wap wap wap wap wapwapwap!!!- Real lyrics from “A Last Straw”. Two minutes of straight trumpet from “Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road”. Uhhh uhh uhhh uhhhh. Uhhh uhh uh Uhhh Uhhhh uhh uhhh uhhhh. Fully bologna. Real lyrics from “Alifib” Bro, is he choking a goose in this song? Wth. Then it got even weirder. “I wanted I wanted I wanted, give it to me. Yum Yum Ha Ha Ha Ha. I’m so confused. 1/10

Another solo artist that simply wasn’t good. Long annoying songs. This dude into the mic: “wah wah wah wah” and someone goes “get this man a record deal!”. No idea how people listen to this and call it good music. Strange voice that sounds like his vocal cords are 1/3 the size of a normal person’s. Melodies are bizarre. The album is well titled though because I did feel I hit rock bottom listening to this. That was awful. 1/10

Holy shit what is this? Out of tune singing coupled with out of tune instruments. ‘Sea Song’ has a piano solo that just sounds like someone slamming their dick on the keys. Then it has a vocalization solo that sounds like he is getting slammed in his dick. This guy sings like he is making up the lyrics on the spot. This album is like a make a wish foundation child with no musical talent wished to make an album but the kid is a grown British man. The best part of the album is when Robert Wyatt is quiet which he rarely is. Alifib or Anus Licking is for interesting bitches is just a dude sounding like he’s getting pegged with noises in the background. This album made me wish I was deaf. 1/10 This is the worst album I have reviewed so far.

Rock bottom is an accurate title for this album. Did not enjoy this record at all. Wyatt's lyrics are thin and hard to listen to, instrumentals are all over the place, and the record is an incoherent mess. Maybe someone's cup of tea, but definitely not mine.

Maybe I’m missing something, but I really don’t understand the appeal of this album. I didn’t find it pleasant to listen to at all. Kind of harrowing, and not in a good way. I decided to look it up to see what the story was, and it turns out that Robert Wyatt fell from a window at a party and became paraplegic while making it. I thought that may explain why it feels so dark, but it turns out he’s started writing it before the accident.

The bottom line for me, is it simply did not sound good to me. Was a tough listen but I listened to the whole thing. Not really sure what the point was…maybe some kind of counter culture art? I’m not at all opposed to unique sounds, creative albums but this was way over my head I guess. I’m glad I know it exists in the world but never again will I subject myself to that.

Yuck

Mon 2ème de lui. Très déçu j'ai pas aimé du tout. Chansons longues instrumentales plates pour moi.

Holy hell, that was awful!

Weird

This might the first album I’ve got that I’ve genuinely disliked

Bloody awful. Glad it was recuperative for him, but it’s painful for the rest of us. This sounds like someone was just experimenting with a synthesizer to see what would happen, rather than actually composing music.

Sorry you lost your legs

Laughably terrible. Seriously, I was laughing out loud about how terrible every song was.

Respectfully, fuck off with this shit.

Wie heeft dit op deze lijst gezet? Dit is toch gewoon niet om aan te horen?

Wat een gewauwel! De titel doet zijn naam eer aan.

Ik denk dat dit een geheim experiment is van de Amerikaanse overheid. Dat ze op Guantanamo Bay de gevangenen dagen achtereen naar deze kutzooi laten luisteren om ze volledig te breken. Ik ben na anderhalf nummer al gebroken, dus dat geeft wel aan wat een krachtig wapen ze met Robert Wyatt in handen hebben!

Weer hij. Laat het stoppen!

2nd August 2023. Caught up late cos busy with London and too many podcasts. I try to understand what people like about albums like this. Jazz, prog, folk, it’s just a mess. No.

1.5. Like this dude, but not into the album.

Not really my style, will not be listening to this again.

Highlights: Alifib Leave Em's: Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road, Alife Overall Thoughts: This album sounds like the result of putting an old man, unfamiliar with music, on vocals and a young child with ADD on production, together in a room and asking them to make an album. The vocals are not strong and oftentimes do not match what is happening with the instrumentation. I wonder how some albums like this make their way onto this list... I did not find much redeeming in this album at all and came away from it feeling like I wasted my time. Score Breakdown: 1.517 & 1 -> 1.259

Vaikea uskoa, että aloin kaipaamaan kahden ekan biisin nauruja. Mutta älä minusta välitä. Väristele vain menemään.

I couldn't get into this. It sounds like he's singing out of tune, or backwards or some weird shit. Experimental and trance-like is how spotify describes it. It's just noise to me.

In my top 5 of hate.

The title says it all tbf. Some dogshit this 👍🏾

Absolute shite.

I listened to this once, read some of the reviews on the site and they said it improves with a second listen, so listened to it again just in case. I did learn to appreciate the bits where he isn't doing an accent a bit more, but other than that did not take much away from the second listen. It's psychedelic, and there are a couple of cool instrumental bits, but he really can't sing very well, the lyrics are more miss than hit, and it's quite a painful listen in places. 1/5.

Ei lähteny ollenkaan

Rock Bottom is right

Every once in a while you come across an album so bad it makes you question why you're even doing this 1001 list. But then you realize that the album is pretty short and can give it a terrible rating and move onto the next one, which is great. Swing and a miss by Wyatt - bad singing and instrumentals all over the place. And the songs aren't even songs, they're just random sounds. 2/10.

Little too out there for me

In prog rock, as in many things in life, you experience hits and misses. This is a definite miss.

Name says it all.

Not for me this. Just couldn’t enjoy it at all

Really just not for me. Can’t think of much I enjoyed.

Looks like... maybe folky stuff? Album art is a pencil drawing, doesn't give much away. I'm guessing singer-songwriter stuff without a full band? Let's find out. Most likely from the UK, lol. Ok yep it's folky, mixed with maybe prog-ish ideas as well and fucking hell this is VERY English. Another outsider art-esque affair by the sounds of things. And by "outsider art-esque" I mean it's laughably bad. Zero talent in the songwriting, singing is horrendous. Half the lyrics are backwards? Like he recorded it backwards then reversed it again? Maybe the music as well? I'd love to know the rationale behind greenlighting these sorts of projects. SOMEONE is having a laugh at Robert Wyatt's expense here, although I guess joke's on them because one IDIOT named Robert Dimery didn't realise and thought it should be immortalised in his stupid book lol. But no, there is nothing of any interest or worth here. 1/5.

No. Lots of musicians doing their own thing. Discordantly.

I don't like this...

Genres: Art rock, canterbury scene, progressive rock, psychedelic rock Formed: (Solo) 1974 Run time: 6 songs, 39 min, 33 sec There is only six songs, but they are all over 5minutes in length. Track 1 “Sea Song” is about a mermaid. The lyrics are ‘out there’! “Partly fish, partly porpoise”, and “Your madness fits in nicely with my own”. There is at least 2 minutes of nonsense noises at the end of the track. Track 2 “A Last Straw” talks about seaweed and “Your rocky bottom”. Another ‘out there’ song with lyrics like “We’ll not grow fat inside The mammary gland”. There’s a minute of nonsense in the middle. Track 3 “Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road” starts with almost 3 minutes of instrumental and then continues with lyrics that are utter nonsensical drivel. Track 4 “Alifib”. The lyrics can only be described as utter rubbish. “Burleybunch the water mole”, “Hellyplop and fingerhole”. Track 5 “Alife” follows the previous track with no gap. More of the same… “Nit nit folly bololy” and so on. Much of the lyrical content is almost inaudible. Probably for the best. Track 6 “Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road”. Same title as track 3 but a different song. I can’t imagine how strong the marijuana and mushrooms must have been to create this album. I don’t normally give negative reviews, instead I opt to say nothing, but this was forty minutes of my life wasted! Thank God there are no more tracks. My Rating: *

What?! No. Absolutely not. Next!

i felt bad about giving this one star, i wanted to save that for the truly egregious, and this record has a story of artistic integrity associated with it. however there is not one good moment in this album - even ivor cutlor couldnt save the day. this record reminded me that actually im quite a happy person. im fucking r a d i a n t cheer. im 400x more happy listening to loveless in the pissing rain than listening to this tedious jibberish anyway this record sucks and blows

Vietnam war album

Quite annoying

Just really not my jam. Interesting for sure, and unlike anything I've listened to, but not my jam.

Hopes were up because of Nick Mason. Then they plummeted to Rock Bottom. When you consider Dark Side of the Moon was the same year, this, for "prog" was awful.

I don’t think a lot of those words were even real

Rock bottom seems about right. What absolute garbage. Half a point given for being brief. The "wah-wah-wahs" in A Last Straw were a moment for sure but unfortunately NOT the last straw in terms of pap. This was painful.

Borderline unlistenable

Didn't think this album would ever end.

Boo

Granted, it's interesting but not really my taste...

Shite Awful vocals, dismay tune Only the 2nd album I couldn't even listen to the end

This sucks.

mmmmmm

Unlistenable. Not a melody to be heard. Just, noise?

What the actual fuck did I just listen to? Robert Wyatt was the drummer of the band Soft Machine before branching off on his own. This is his second studio album, and this one was produced by Pink Floyd's drummer, Nick Mason. Need I say more? This album is super out there. Psychadelic folk maybe? I don't know what to call it. An unfortunate accident befell Wyatt in the middle of recording this record, leaving him paralyzed, which sucks, but my fuck this album still blows. Most of the album has no discernable beat to it at all. Someone just sat behind a piano and played random notes shittily while the bass player fell asleep and waves of God awful theramin screeching and synth garbage are layered overtop. Wyatt couldn't carry a tune in a bucket, and the lyrics are mostly nonsensical (especially in the song Alifib and Alife which isn't English, or any discernable language. It seems like he is singing backwards while brass instruments are abused in the background). The flute playing on Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road was terrible. The violin in Little Red Robin Hood Hits the Road sounds like something an unskilled 6 year old would play if given free range to wail on the instrument with no instruction. This album was garbage from start to finish. Painful to listen to really. Why the fuck is this on this list? Favourite song: Sea Song (if I had to pick one. In reality the whole album is trash) Least favourite songs: Alifib, Alife, A Last Straw, Little Red Riding Hood Hits The Road, Little Red Robin Hood Hits The Road 1/5

Ooops, it was awhile ago since I listened to this. However, I think I remember it being pretty bad. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I think this wasn't great

Started at a 2 for me and went downhill. Produced by Nick Mason and the psychedelic influence is definitely seen. Not a fan of this one as a whole.

It was hot garbage and not for me. One songs lyrics are wa wa wa wa over and over and over.

WTAF is this? WHY is this? Who was this made for, other than the artist himself? The answers to these questions are irrelevant. This album is genuinely unlistenable, and the only list it truly belongs on is "1001 Albums That Make You Wish You Were Dead." I couldn't even make it through an entire song; the best I could manage was a skim of the album. It is my fervent hope that I can purge this abomination from my memory banks and never waste another millisecond thinking about it. Life's too short to waste on terrible music.

The guy can't sing

Not my bag.

un peu horrible

Holy shit this was bad. I feel like I am at rock bottom after listening to this.

Absolutely awful.

Weird. I’m learning from this project that I really hate art rock. The scratchy and out of tune vocals make it even worse. I feel bad because the guy had just had a bad accident that left him paralyzed but maybe he should’ve done a bit more reflecting and recovering before penning this atrocity. Just because he was paralyzed doesn’t mean he’s excused for inflicting this album upon the world. Couldn’t finish.

drab 1.5