D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle

Not even music

Er, big no.

It's Easter today. Jesus died for whatever abomination I just listened to. This is like a Brian Eno fever dream. Zero stars.

Yeah, it’s pretty bad bad not good

Intolerable!

everybody make some noise 1

I know art should explore themes like this and make possibly make you feel uncomfortable. And, in that regard, I would have been more interested in this album in a museum of other arty context. Just listening to it, it was a hard one.

I did not get this. Unsure on what I was conveying. Lots of random noise

What could I say that’s hasn’t already been said. 1 star.

Because I can't give it a 0

Not for me

My wife walked in and said "what the hell are you listening to?"during the first track. Very dissident style of music. Very progressive for the time frame and probably did help other bands find their voice. I liked it more and more I listened to it. Top songs Ab/7a Weeping 4.5/10

Never heard of album or band. First song is weird. Kept expecting it to start but it’s just mic feedback the whole time. Didn’t feel like a real song. Hit by a rock is more of a song but still weird. Bullshit lyrics. Valley is a TikTok with no visuals. I have no clue what I’m listening to rn this is not music. Title track is actually a song which is cool. Again it just never picks up. 6 minutes of weirdness. Finally some lyrics on weeping. Terrible voice. Mid lyrics. One positive I will say is that it’s good music to work to. Not distracting in the least. Sounds like normal outdoor sounds. Again I asked who gave the green light on the remaster. Why do I kind of like AB/7A?? Again great work music. This one is really well produced. Sounds like a real song. I’m glad I didn’t bail out. Just because of this one song. Écoli is back to bullshit. Ready to be done again. Last 2 songs more of the same. Glad it’s over. The one song kept it from .5 for trying zone. 1.2 stars.

Excellent music to listen to while in the woods, at night, with your friends, tripping on LSD. Otherwise, I'm just not sure when I would listen to this.

I've been looking forward to this record since I started this project. It seems sort of legendary for its seeming ability to be almost universally despised by the reviewers on this site, and I'll be honest, I wanted to see if the reviews were fair. I suspected that it was largely a record that people misunderstood, and that there were probably many redeemable qualities to it. Nope. I was wrong. People seem to understand this record perfectly fine. I actually think that this record had to have been predicated on a prank by the band to be inflicted on the audience. It truly sucks. I like some weird, avant garde stuff from time to time, but this really isn't that. This is just audio dogshit, most of which doesn't really involve any real level of musicality. It's pretty rare that I'll rate something at a 1-star. For me, for a record to warrant a 1-star rating, it has to fail to meet the basic criteria of being musical, or I have to think that it's so bad that I can't understand why anyone would record it in the first place. This Throbbing Gristle record checks both those boxes for me. 1/10

Truly just unlistenable noise.

Awful. Barely qualifies as music

Imagine you’re working for an international spy organization, and you have captured a terrorist who knows the codes to disarm the nuclear weapons hidden in major cities throughout the globe. The clear answer to this trolley problem is that you’ll ignore the Geneva Convention and do whatever it takes to extract the information from the terrorist to save humanity. Rather than waterboarding, which will ruin this perfectly good carpet, you play Throbbing Gristle on repeat until they crack. I was ready to confess to crimes that I never committed just to make it stop. In short, this album is a human rights violation.

I hated this album.

No no no

A truly grating listening experience. The "songs" on this album were one of two things: a mishmash of earraping noises or a muffled recording of someone talking slapped onto a repetitive beat. I will give it one thing: it did sound pretty haunting at times. Intentionally or not, I did enjoy those bits, even though it was literally just two tracks (Hamburger Lady and Hometime). This is now two for two on British albums being one star. Coincidence? Favorite Track: Hamburger Lady

1, what was this

Why are these weird, no talent albums on here? Just because they are eclectic?

This album made me feel so on edge. Anyone who says they like this is a psychopath.

not for me

Makes me want to bump up other albums I have rated 1 star!

Terrible

At the time of writing, this is the lowest rated album on here. "How bad could it be?" I thought. It was that bad.

41 mins of my life i never get back Never again

Younger me would have lapped this up, older me puts it in the pretentious arty bollocks category. AB/7A is a standout (for good reasons).

An album I would not have listened to without this list. But I will surely never listen to this terrible noises again. 0 stars

nauseating and repetitive.

This is probably the only review I'm making on this website because this album certainly makes me wanna put some kind of sense ino my reaction. If we take into consideration what the artistic vision of the group is, I guess you could make the case that it is supposed to sound the way it sounds, and maybe I don't have the knowledge or intelligence to understand the art within. But to me, this sounds like an album made by the CIA to torture all the minorities they could find in Third World countries and induce a nationwide collective hysteria, which I guess, is what they were aiming for?

Hi can someone please explain to me what the actual fuck?

What the F is this shit!

Noise. Just noise

#862. I get it that industrial music is supposed to be anti-music to some degree, and that is the point, but still though this isn't really interesting at all to me. Avant garde nonsense in any form of art just seems stupid to me. 1/5: dumb

Fascinating, but nothing I would want to listen to again in the near future ... or ever again.

Aaarrrrrgggg!!!!!

Is this really music? Because I would just call it noise. It seems to live up to being the lowest rated album on the list.

If I could give it 0 stars, I would. Idk what its doing on this list.

Ass

Call it performance art maybe, but half the time it wasn't music.

Nearly every track was unlistenable noise. Painful.

Too weird and obnoxious.

It's sad they didn't make it. Rest In Peace.

Atonal & amelodic.

The first few tracks aren’t even songs, in that they lack any rhythm or melody. The back half of the album at least has songs, but they’re still terrible.

This makes me kind of philosophical. At what point do you call random noises "music"? I don't have the answer, but I suspect this doesn't always reach that point. It may have been influential, but I'm not sure I want to hear the results.

Horrendous.

jesus my ears hurt

are you taking the piss?

God help you if this was the first album you got

Nearly every track was unlistenable noise. Painful.

Muy alternativo para mi gusto

This might have been a hit for me, I like the idea of "nonsensical" ambient noise like that but this just didn't hit the spot. It was a thin line to walk and it didn't make it.

You'd have to argue pretty hard that this is music at all.

That's not music. That's insulting.

Wow, this is the lowest rated albums on here. Not looking forward to it. It's another case of "this is the first of a genre, so it must be on this list." Just because you CAN make something doesn't mean you should, or that it should be recommended to you 50 years later. I will tolerate this nonsense out of composers, not this. 1* IBM: I was inside of my modem I usually will power through all the garbage here, but this time I can't. I stopped at the start of the 3rd track. I just can't. My ears don't deserve this.

I lasted three “songs”, which is three more than I should have.

Do not like industrial music

cannot get through -- way too experimental "industrial music"

Noise music just isn't my bag.

I definitely did not need to hear this one

Would have given zero stars if I could. Literally mostly just noise.

If it wasn’t boring, it was offensive to my ears. Some songs would be recording machine monologues and others screechy unsettling tones. 1 star

This might have been groundbreaking or influential at the time and/or artistically challenging but it was boring and didn’t interest me

I have a 15 minute rule. If I've listened for 15 minutes and not a single listenable song has played yet, I'm turning it off. Gave it an honest try.....I understand one of the top rated reviews on this but I would much rather listen to Kanye West or Beyoncé over this (whats his fucking damage??)

Vraiment pas non genre ces trucs expérimentaux

not music... i wanna say straight bullshit but i guess this is art too

Umm no. Just no. So much no.

No.

Hoo boy. It is exceptionally easy to just blast this album and one-star it. I'm tempted. Art house rock/prog rock/Brit post-punk/et cetera is my least favorite trash in the world. If I have to say something nice, it's that even Trent Reznor credits them with pioneering industrial rock, and they were doing this analog, which is admittedly impressive. It's just so deeply weird in an unpleasant way. Influence 3. Quality 1. Hits 1. Intangibles 2. Never again 1.

I hated this. It was just noise. I would give it zero stars if I could. Awful.

Great, an album full of random noise

Unpleasant noise. And what’s with the creepo album cover? Jeezus.

This one is a little too weird for me

Not for me

I am currently naming this album the uncontested winner of the most consistently unpleasing sounds thus far throughout an entire recording. I've only in about 20 albums now but I'm confident that they will own this title for an elongated period. If you enjoy this you are unusual being a with taste for the macabre

Inspirational I'm sure.

First listen Saved 0/13

Gear: 64 Audio Duo Artwork: 👧📻📸 Production (Remastered): 🔪💩😖 Music: 📢😵‍💫𖡎 Rating: 💀/5

Was zum Geier ist hier los, Was ist das für ein SOund.. Auweia

Why does this exist...

1,5/5

Throbbing Gristle – D.O.A. D.O.A. is less of a musical album and more of a psychological endurance test. After a week defined by high-level musicianship and beautiful production, this record feels like a total rejection of everything that makes music worth listening to. It is an "absolute grievance" of a project—a collection of abrasive noise, disturbing tape loops, and cold, mechanical static that offers zero emotional or melodic payoff. While historians might argue for its importance in creating the "Industrial" genre, the actual listening experience is physically repulsive and sonically hollow. It stands as a reminder that being "provocative" or "experimental" doesn't always result in something that deserves to be heard. If giving an album a zero was a feature of this platform I would wholeheartedly. 1/5

cái lồn j vậy?

What a piece of shit “album”.

Uh… sure! I’m sure with a whole lot of context this album would be really really cool and transcendent but it just sounds like liminal space but in audio form. i’m also not an electronic music person so it just doesn’t resonate with me

I have mixed feelings on this one. I believe good music should make you feel things. While listening to this album with headphones in a room by myself, I did feel things. Unfortunately none of them were even remotely good things. Not sure what the band was going for here, but I hated it.

If Ross geller got a record deal

★½

Too much of this tipped the wrong way for me. I liked dead on arrival, ab/7a and e-coli, but the rest was too uncomfortable.

Without merit of any kind

Some of what Throbbing Gristle offers up falls under the category of music, but the majority of the material on Third Report does not as they are engaging in sound art rather than songwriting. As sound art it is somewhat interesting, but as an album of music it is lacking many of the features you should judge when writing an album review (melody, rhythm, etc.) They successfully create an uncomfortable and uncompromising atmosphere which I will not be returning to. I find the life story and personality of Genesis P-Orridge much more interesting than the output of Throbbing Gristle itself.

Kick things off with 3 minutes of static and there better be peak Zeppelin on deck.

I could scrape a fork on my monitor and I'd achieve this sound.

this is without a doubt the biggest ask by the author of the list on what qualifies as an album. it feels edge lordy in a way i don't want to look up further because i'm already annoyed. the blurbs i've seen about throbbing gristle all use the phrase "anti melody" and that's more than enough to warn me off this nonsense.

forgot to rate this one when i listened — spotify describes them as "abrasive, aggressive, and antagonistic" and i agree. i liked the one song that was more bleep blorpy and less like it belonged on the soundtrack of The Ring. i did like this tiktok i got about them and their album naming choices tho https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSLeH8SDv5U/

Interesting - and probably groundbreaking for the 1970's, but just not much musical value.

this is what a nightmare sounds like

this isn't music, it's a collection of random noises that are unpleasant to listen to together.. or alone

This album was about as enjoyable as getting a root canal if your dentist was John Cramer from Saw. Anyone who finds this enjoyable, innovative, and/or worth listening to needs to be seen by someone, anyone, with a PhD. To quote Tyra Banks, "It is so bad, I want to give you a zero, but that's not possible, so I give you a one."

WTF did I just listen to? It's only relation to music is that it uses instruments and voices, but that's about where the similarities end. Just a bunch of formless, shapeless noise. Not enjoyable, and something I'm only forcing myself to listen to because of this group.

Ugh

Pretty hard to rate. It was mostly just noise.

Otro disco para torturar al oyente. No le encuentro el punto.

Honestly just some creepy sounds??? What the hell am I missing is this a pisstake? Ruined my morning, im trying to go through a breakup here and I get this garbage, the world is a sad place.

Nope, DNF, 1 star

Well, that was a giant fucking waste of time. No stars if that option was available.

Basically awful? This is literally just noises; no melodic qualities for the most part. I wouldn’t say this is a musical album - what I’m saying is this isn’t music per se so I wouldn’t market this as a musical album. An interesting experiment? Perhaps. Something I’ll never listen to again? Yes, definitely. AB/7A is the only track that resembles a musical composition.

1. IBM - 1 2. rock - 1 3. death - 1 4. arrival - 1 5. Weeping - 1.5 6. Lady - 1 7. Home - 1.5 8. Ab -1 9. Coli - 1 10. Threats -0 11. Sound - 1 12. Blood - 0

Not my thing personally. Glad I gave it a try but it was less like music and more like noise :/ Not a great start for my first album out of the 1001

Shite

Really didnt like this album- so much of it felt like it was trying to be edgy / avant garde. A lot of songs didnt actually sound like music, but an assortment of sound bites. I can see how maybe this was influential to other industrial artists, but it was really bad for me

Listen, was this album a hot mess? Yes. Is the cover image fucked up? Also yes. Was anything about this good? No. But I didn’t have the visceral reaction I expected. I didn’t like it, but maybe it’s not the worst thing? But lbr it probably is.

For 1978 this is pretty innovating. But it’s really not fun to listen to, and that is what is most important in the end.

I thought something was wrong with my speakers.

This sucks. I think the majority nailed it with this one. If your success hinges on some kind of pretentious notion that "its not made for you, only we understand why this is actually amazing" then its bad. Dont launch an album into the public if you dont want public scrutiny. Its different walls of noise, lots of screeching, off key everything, etc. I let the whole thing run while I worked to just see it through and I can confidently say you arent missing anything by skipping this one.

What a pleasure to finally get to experience the worst rated album on this list! Just as bad as the rating made it out to be. Anyone defending this hunka junk probably smells their own farts for fun and pleasure. Get over yourself and accept that something being bad on purpose doesn’t make it interesting

This was a slog. A bunch of field recording conversation over the top of random 'musical' sounds. I could have done without bothering. The fact this is lauded as their best effort is absolutely mad to me.

It was making me uneasy. I get why its called abrasive and antagonistic. I get why people would think its random noise and trash at first, but I can see the creative mind and process behind this. It had my brain moving and working, really listening. did a good job making me uneasy, and some of the rythms were fun and good. Very well could be the first and last time I listen to them, but my time was not wasted by any means

Album 712: Geht es noch mieser? Offenbar doch! Bin gespannt! -100 Punkte! Unfassbar, die Ohren mit so etwas zu quälen. Ich werde in Zukunft jeden Pups aufnehmen und das als Best Of vermarkten!

# Playlist Track - Death Threats # Notes - I respect the will to experiment and put this record out in the world. But the end result is really really really boring. Recommended only for the most devout fans of either music history or industrial metal.

Sorry but it is not with this kind of cacophony that you fight fascism. What a useless waste of time and space. 1/5

Maybe I just didn't understand it.

I felt like I had been getting gas lit by the Beetles fan boys for so long. All I ever head was this was the greatest band of all time, this band revolutionized music, and all I ever heard was 60’s pop bullshit. This was the first album I actually heard it on. This album doesn’t quite live up to the behemoth hype surrounding this group, but with any other band this is and easy five, so I have to be fair here.

Mitä vittua?

Ei jumalauta. Vähän harmittaa että annoin eilisille intiameiningeille ygösen, se oli viiden tähden kamaa tähän verrattuna. Ihan uskomatonta paskaa. Jos olisin persu, niin ottaisin tähän väliin sen Tony Halmeen kommentin Kiasmasta, että jos paskantaa tehosekoittimeen ja pistää sen Kiasman aulaan pyörimään, niin onko se taidetta? Toki jos taiteen perimmäinen tarkoitus on herättää tunteita, niin siinä tämä onnistui Alkoi nimittäin oikeasti vituttamaan että tämmöiseen paskaan piti tuhlata omaa aikaa. Antaisin 0 tähteä jos voisi.

Första albumet jag inte pallar att lyssna igenom. Nästan inte musik, enligt mig. Fattar att det finns en poäng här för den som.är intresserad av sånt. Att det är ett pionjärverk. Men för mig är det en etta.

What the fuck is this shit

In another universe I would have love it, but in this one is just super annoying

I think I might hate this the most so far, because it's mostly a collage (I don't even think collage is the right word, because they barely overlap or harmonize) of annoying sounds that are just... there. Here's this annoying sound. Then there's this annoying sound. Then there's two annoying sounds! They don't relate at all, it's just double the annoyance. It's so uncomfortable to listen to that any artistic point is lost.

🙄

Can’t do it. Tried different songs, still couldn’t do it. It was terrible, at least for me. Could only manage maybe 30 seconds a song before I just had to change the song.

The song "Weeping" made me want to cry from the pain in my ears. What's the point of this album? To bang a bunch of random things together and mumble strange lyrics into the mic? That's the vibe I'm picking up

Just not my type of music

When you're done with all the music left that this world has to offer. Once you wrought every ounce of experience from the millions of musicians out there... Give this album a try

como a gravadora em 1978 liberou o estudou pra gravar isso é um mistério.

Absolutely terrible. A bunch of random electronic sounds. Reminiscent of being in a loud factory. I don't care if this was important in some way to the fountains of electronica, sampling, or whatever, it is absolutely painful to sit through.

No.

WTF was I just subjected to. No.

pretty much just noise

9.5 от пичфорка. я в шоке просто.

Did not like at all

not a fan

Nah, this ain’t it.

Ooof

Want to give it more credit for being ahead of its time or some bullshit, but fuck off.

Awful. Really not my bag

One of the worst things I've ever heard of my life. I'd rather listen to the death rattle of a man suffering from terminal flatulence. If I could give it 0, I would.

Ross Gellar’s “sound” is infinitely better than this garbage.

Fuck this headache inducing self-absorbed experimental noise shit pretending it's music. This is what you get when you continually give children unnecessary praise for the delicious "cake" that they "baked", even though it's just a lump of wet sand.

I appreciate that this probably inspired Trent Reznor, but man I did not enjoy it

Serial killer music. Certainly a challenging listen, and I personally can’t really find the music in this so I find it near impossible to rate. Feels unfair to call this bad because it might be a brilliant example of what it is, but I struggled to get through it.

The 1 star is too high for this travesty

Richtiger Schrott

Absolute rubbish. Shit the emperor would listen to and everyone would say it is amazing even though it is a collection of noise and nothing more.

Got a headache listening to this. I'm not sure why this album was made. I'd give it a zero if I could.

Honestly a bit ridiculous. However a couple of the tracks actually made me feel something which is more can be said for the Miles Davis album I had to listen to. Most was a bit unlistenable but the disturbing nature it does actually manage to achieve prevents it from being a 1.

Absolute garbage!

Tiresome nonsense. Would rather throw rocks at my own head repeatedly than listen to this wibble again.

whole bunch of sounds

These days I need at least a trace of listenability in the noise I intentionally consume. I’m getting old, ok? I look towards other mediums for that type of transcendence. So sorry, D.O.A., you might have created here the blueprint for industrial and noise, but I still say, ciao bella.

Pitchfork described the album as "a nauseating masterpiece, and an essential recording". They could have just stopped at nauseating.

That’s a no from me. 0/5

i have stopped listening to it to preserve my sanity

Wtf was that?

This is barely music

Haunted house sound effects CD

Never heard of them or this album and apparently I'm not alone. The listen count on Spotify is glaringly low. This is my second 'experimental' album this week ("Duck Stab", by The Residents). And this one sucks too. Only one song, "Hamburger Lady" has a million listens, how a million people sat thru that is beyond me. Everything else is pure garbage, just sounds, ambience and nonsense, not actual songs. "AB-7A" was the closest thing to a song on the album. The only good thing about them is their band name, Throbbing Gristle, projects an instant mental image. I've lost faith in this list, there's simply no reason this album would be one 'you must listen to before you die'. 1 star, the minimum I can give. This was unforgivably bad.

one of the worst things ive ever heard

Not for me at all

demasiado experimental para mi fomisimo

There should be a rating less than 1.

I can't believe that there is something worse than Neil Young. Absolute crap. Who would sign a band like this. I can't imagine how awful a live show. 2 songs and I was done.

Nope

Quite possibly the worst one yet

I'm sure this music is for somebody, but that somebody is not me This is one of those albums you listen to once, and only once. 1/5. 2.38/10

Ah now, eventually you plan to have music on your music album, right? Hello? *Tapping on computer screen* Hello?

Random noises and not even music. Forced myself to listen to it and maybe got something out of it, but the commentary/messaging/experimentation that Throbbing Gristle attempts on this album is done better by numerous other artists. I will be laughing at this album in the same way that I laugh at the Human Centipede trilogy.

No standouts, this is not good electronic music

More interesting to create than listen to. You call sniff your own farts, why bother with someone else's? Best Tracks: Hit by a Rock; AB/7A; Blood on the Floor

Pretentious bullshit.

Really not for me. I don't mind out ther, experimental and dark music. But this was just dull. Also feels like it's trying way too hard to be provocative, though it did seem to work. Some slightly interesting ideas here or there but I have no desire to listen to any of this ever again.

Not music. Distant sound effects for people on heroin to nod to. Only decent track is AB/7A.

I've listened to and appreciated many types of noisy music before, and at least been able to understand why it sounds the way it does. Not for this album though, "noise" in music usually still feels like it has a purpose, so this album feels less like a careful construction of noise and more like a random collection of sounds.

At this point you might as well go listen to some local construction. I will give this one thing, though: it’s not really trying to be listenable music. It’s some kind of weird art statement. Does it succeed at that? I dunno, but it’s hard to fail it as music when it’s barely that in the first place.

Es una verga esto. Inescuchable.

I.B.M. 0.1 Hit by a Rock 0.3 United 0.1 Valley of the Shadow of Death 0 Dead on Arrival 0.4 Weeping 0.2 Hamburger Lady 0.3 Hometime 0.2 AB/7A 0.5 E-Coli 0.2 Death Threats 0.1 Walls of Sound 0 Blood on the Floor 0.1 Score: 0.192307692

I didn't hate this album quite as much as I thought I would. Some of the songs were messed up though, the word repulsive comes to mind.

This is just noise. Shit noise.

I did not have a great time listening to this personally. I feel like maybe you have to be in the right mood to listen to this album? For me it just got a little too repetitive and strange. Many of the songs had high pitched noises and sounds which was off putting to me. I sort of rejoiced when the album was over because this wasn’t my cup of tea but I can see how some people find it appealing.

Ya know, I get it. This isn't music, its noise, and if I'm on a website about music, I'm going to get pretty annoyed that I have to listen to "industrial". 1/5, should be 0. I don't really want to listen to gurgling for my daily "album".

hmm... why??

50% Best: AB/7A Must-Hear? Before listening: surely it can't be that bad! ...After listening: it's that bad

Well, this was just a bunch of noise and random yelling. No thanks. 1 / 5

That's not my taste in musik. Musik?

What a dumb album! It was ridiculous just sounds it wasn't even music! One of the worst albums so far!

WTF was that? It's only music in the sense that random noises played simultaneously can technically be considered music. But no... absolutely not. 0 stars

yeah no not spending my time this way

no

un atentado a mis oídos

Album No. 0028 on my list. I appreciate the experimental nature of this, but unfortunately this is not for me. „AB/7A“ was the only fine track on this album to me, the rest i did not like. 1/5 stars.

what to say? so experimental it doesn't sound like music anymore. I am sure they were relevant but I don't care Lol ..

Nie, co to w ogóle ma byc

Oh man, I love me some industrial, but this is just noise. 1/5

Could not listen to it. Too many noise.

Just sounds and awful.

wut?

Noisy, electronic, terrifying; a nightmare in music form. Tape recordings of voicemails and phone conversations, drones, echoes, long repetitions, lack of any melody. Not a bad record, but I wouldn't listen to it again. I gave a short listen to their record 20 jazz funk greats, and I liked that immediately more than this, so don't sell this band short!

giuro che non so se dargli 1 o 5 stelle, esperienza fantastica, ma non lo riascolterò mai più lol

1.13

I respect the big, confusing swing this band took here but I cannot get down with it.

Utter shite

I probably don't understand industrial music, i don't like this album, lacks of all the soul of what random sound based music should be, if it is an interpretation of "out of the box" thinking music, then i want to stay inside of the box all the rest of my life.

1 star I don't support child porn

Look, maybe this had some historical importance or gave inspiration to something good like Nine Inch Nails. But, objectively, this is just chaotic noise. Calling it music is generous. It's bad, unobjectively bad. If you're looking for deeper meaning you're being pretentious.

Not sure this is music. A collection of sounds that I don’t understand. I listened through but not sure I am glad I did.

Unlistenable noise with nothing resembling music to be found. Did this lead to the creation of the entire industrial genre? Maybe but this is awful to listen to. Seriously worse than Metal Machine Music. Albums like this make me question the decision to do the 1001 albums exercise. I could not get through even half of it.

1+ Stars (3/15)

This must be historically important to be on this list because it is unlistenable. Not a melody to be found. Noise on top of noise. Garbage.

Too experimental was not really good and didnt flow. They thought they were doing groundbreaking stuff but they were really doing dog💩

This is not music. I guess you could argue that’s exactly the point, and maybe that’s why it’s on this list. It’s abrasive, unsettling, and more an art experiment than a traditional album. Whether you find it fascinating or unlistenable will depend entirely on your tolerance for noise.

Gelijk een straffe binnenkomer. Flink experimenteel, rare industriële geluiden, af en toe wat muziek. Ook wel divers en best sfeervol. Het doet me denken aan de experimentele stukjes van Pink Floyd

Just noise.

Sounds like a middle school band attempting to be edgy

Umm, no.

<<<< the Beatles Fuck people who record bullshit then have the audacity to release it and charge actual money for it. I can't tell if the positive reviews I saw for this are a joke because they describe things that simply are not on this album, like music, for instance. This would be zero stars if I could do that

The pioneers of industrial music did not perfect industrial music. I would argue that it's not even good industrial music. It was bearable, but just barely. Once again, the algorithmic generated playlist that started after the album ended was better than the album, haha. This is the point though, I am doing this project to improve my algorithm.

Połowa utworów brzmi jakby jest nagrał R2DR, druga jakby komuś się dyktafon włączył w kieszeni. Szum, chaos, dezorganizacja i dezintegracja. Ja lubię dziwne rzeczy, ale ludzie tego nie da się słuchać! Nie obchodzi mnie, że to wielka płyta jest, nabawiłam się przez nią dźwiękowstrętu. 1.5/10

YIKES

Novelty levels of atrocious

Industrial = absolutely no musical talent whatsoever

Tried to give it a fair shake but it’s borderline unlistenable.

If you are fan of bleeps, boops, clangs, indecipherable background dialogue and ambient noises, this is your album!!!!

Just not my thing.

What in the world?!

Synthetic, dissonant, weird spoken word

so scary. hamburger lady is terrifying. I don’t like this. at all. really bad first impression for this website. really horrible and awful. I’m genuinely scared. who put this on the list because they are disturbed.

I really try to be open to experimental music, but this just doesn't feel like music at all, does it?

Didn't take much from it. Some of the songs reminded me of Ross trying to show off his keyboard playing skills.

There are a lot of words I could use to describe this album, but "music" is not one of them

Ha, and to think I took a week off of this list because it was starting to seem like a chore and then this is the first album I get back. This isn't music and it's infuriating to listen to. At least I can turn it off after 2 songs. 0.5/10 (0.25/5)

not music is it

Creative at least? Idk this is barely even music, more like a collection of random sounds. I appreciate them pushing the boundaries with this, but there is no reason for me to ever want to listen through this album again.

Not a fan thumbs down

fucking awful

1978 feels quite early for this kind of record. While I appreciate there are all kinds of music out there, and this certainly could be a fitting soundtrack for a horror movie or Twin Peaks, I hardly think it is an album you must listen to before you die. ‘Weeping’ was really on to something but in the end it’s too much noise ans incoherence, and just overall bad sounding - as with the rest of the album. Ironically I listened to the remastered record but it’s probably one of the worst sounding albums I’ve ever heard. 0/10.

Recognized this from the "Global lowest rated albums", unsurprisingly it's an industrial music record. This really isn't for me. I get that it pushed the boundaries of what music actually is and sampling done in the 70s is very different from what it is today. But it just isn’t an interesting or pleasant listen. All of it was not bad though. AB/7A and E-coli had a pretty cool electronic synth vibe. Groundbreaking it probably was but not something I would want to listen to. Doesn’t make me question how it can be rated highly, which for many 1 star albums I often do. It must be a 1 star from me still.

Why is this even on the list. This isn’t music.

Cool that it’s old

Most of it is just random sounds. I couldn't get through the album without my brain hurting. Sliding through most of the songs told me enough.

it's experimental, I got it

Weird one. Not much lyrics

n.l.

come on

This album made me pro-9/11. I hate the west for allowing this album to happen.

HATED almost the entire album, then severely fucked with AB/7A. So what I’m saying is get this album off the fucking list and replace it with the one below. Anyways, go listen to Stay Ugly EP by crim3z if u thought this was stoopid except AB/7A. It’s a 5 song album. Here’s the link to it on Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/album/4SdrdBBRHRo1CL6u3vJrR7?si=uom9S52oTG6Ok3d2HcQKzA

industrial rock deez nuts

Difficult to listen to and straining my ears with noise, blips, feedback, guitar distortion, fragments of conversations.making up an Industrial album.

41 minutes of random noises.

What the hell is this album?! It's just a bunch of random sounds smashed together, which were not pleasant and also upset my dog. I couldn't even listen to it all the way through, it was that painful. I would give it a zero if it was an option.

terrible

I feel although I am being brainwashed. This entire album is like the intro to a plausible piece of audio one could call "music", but it never ends the intro phase.

I hate experimental music

it was something..

The opposite of the Holy Grail for this site. Deserving of the lowest rating.

Dafuq

De to første låtene var grusomme, resten var det mulig å lytte til uten at det ga mer stjerner.

Thoughts I had while listening to this: "Finally, the perfect soundtrack for a lazy Sunday" "Wasn't this featured on 'NOW That's What I Call Music 32'?" "That riff just kind of tunnels its way into your brain, doesn't it?" I don't know, man. I want to be the kind of music lover that can appreciate this. I was so excited to check out an album I'd literally never heard of before that enough critics thought worthy of a list (even one as big as 1,001 albums.) But I didn't appreciate this on any level. I'm guessing it's hugely influential and there are artists I adore who were completely turned on by this. I can imagine this being a foundational record for Aphex Twin, Autechre, Whitney Houston. Oh, not Whitney Houston. Who am I thinking of? (That being said, I listened to '20 Jazz Funk Greats' and there was some actually great stuff on there.)

Don't like noise.

This album is weird, very experimental. I found the sound effects to be distracting.

Industrial music is not my thing and this is a particular distasteful example.

Horrible noise. Whoever signed this band should have been fired immediately!

I do like to think I'm open minded, but this is not music. It is a soundscsape. A soundscape that made me too bored to finish.

Meaningless noise.

Les pires 41 minutes de ma vie, et j'ai fait le Vietnam.

This was just bad. I have heard of Throbbing Gristle before (from 2 sock puppets online oddly enough), and they mentioned that it would be weird. It was weird, but also awful.

Misophonic garbage.

This might be the worst thing I've ever heard. I understand being abstract, breaking convention but this is horrible. You can be weird, use unconventional sounds, have things which aren't traditionally appealing without it being this horrible to listen to. This isn't an album, it's an abstract art piece masquerading as an album, and because of that as an album it's horrible. I understand it was very special for it's time, and that it's not supposed to sound good, but also I would never listen to this by choice. I was unable to get through the whole thing.

Thanks Robert Dimnery, now I have a headache... Favorite songs: AB/7A Least favorite songs: the whole album 1/5

Super weird. Was not impressed - more noise than music I guess?

Ei vaan voi ymmärtää.

Mikä tämä on

Nyt oli kyllä harvinaisen huono levy, yhdessä kappaleessa oli ajoittain hyvä beat. En ymmärrä mitä tekee tällä listalla. 👎🏻

Voispa antaa 0

What an awful album choice to have added to this list of 1001. For sure, there are some stinkers but this one takes the top spot for biggest piece of shit on here…it’s not even music. Just some fuckwad band tinkering around in their garage trying new ways to think they’re pushing lines on what’s possible. Ugh. Not one single person in all of the world alive or dead has ever said, I have friends getting together later maybe I should put on some really good music, like DOA. I dont care if that wasnt the intention of this album to begin with. If I could give this horseshit album 0 stars that would be more appropriate. I’m so fired up about this album that I’m leaving a review no one is even going to read. If you do read this and you have this album up next in the cue, take my advice…don’t listen to any of it. Piece of shit.

# 498 : D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle : 09/06/2025 Pitchfork described the album as "a nauseating masterpiece" Bang! says it all really. I mean It's good to know other bands and genres' exist out there, But I'm pretty sure I DIDN'T need to listen to this before I kicked the bucket.

Absolutely terrible, complete garbage, no musical qualities whatsoever. If you get this album: turn around, don't drown.

This is without a doubt the second worst album I have ever heard.

Not for me.

Trash

Boring. Nauseating. Creepy. Pretentious. Calling this album shit is an insult to shit. Also, whoever made the album art should probably be put on a registry.

I get avant-garde, and yes, music is everywhere in everything. But this isn’t pleasurable, listenable or desirable.

Dafuq. This is really annoying stuff...

I usually reserve a 1 to an album I was unable to sit through. I sat through this. I hated it, but I sat through it. There were 2 tracks that I didn't hate.

This was just bad.

Way to experimental/industiral ,or what you might call the mostly strange sounds that happen throughout the album, for my taste. I didn't enjoy this at all and I hope my Spotify discover weekly wont get any weird ideas from this.

I did not enjoy this