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

they spent more time working out the song titles than they did the actual songs.

dnf

Not the worst one star I’ve given, but yeah, firmly one star. WTF? 1/5

When the lead track spends a good chunk of time cycling the instrument cable in and out to make that noise we all hate, you just know the album is going to suck.

Unlistenable

Literally unlistenable garbage

Could not stick with it - it's weird

Listened on 5/15/25 1/5 No favorite songs This was just nonsensical noise

In lieu of a standard critical review, I’d thought I’d just share some random thoughts that occurred to me while listening to this so-called “album”. - I wish I had the self confidence that these people had to record this, call it music, put their names on it and release it to the public. - I have to assume this is what they played in Guantanamo Bay to force prisoners to confess to crimes. - I also have to assume this group of people got in a room and asked themselves how they could make an album without using a single musical instrument. - My ears hurt. No really, they hurt. Favorite song: AB/7something was the closest thing to a melody found in the entire album

The fuck You simply CANNOT convince me that these people have any talent or that anyone who likes this has a single brain cell. The only thing I enjoyed was the song titles, but to borrow from track #2, I’d like someone to hit me with a rock when I listen to this machine porn garbage. “Songs” that didn’t make my ears bleed: - AB/7A (closest to actual music) - Hamburger Lady

I prefer the NIN, Ministry vein of industrial music

I hated this album. Seems like it would be appropriate for a horror movie!

A few moments of interesting noises scattered throughout 45 minutes of crap. It's as if an art student turned in their sketchbook for their final project. How and why is this an album?

this was a turd sandwich

Utter Rubbish

Thanks, I hate it.

Mostly, it's a bunch of spoken word over noises, sort of reminds me of some of the artsier moments of Huggy Bear's Taking the Rough with the Smooch. Except there, you're listening to stuff like "Pro No From Now" and "Prayer" because you know you've got "Herjazz" coming up. Here, the payoff is some rudimentary beats with more noise over the top of them. Now, I'm not disparaging rudimentary beats with more noise; the same description is true for Psychocandy, and that's one of my all time favorite albums! The problem here is that they're just not very good at it. This album falls somewhere between a 1 and a 2, giving it the 1 because everything I've read about them in Simon Reynolds' Rip It Up and Start Again makes them sound like unbearable edgelords.

Just noise. One or two bits of songs that are pleasant, promptly interrupted with more noise. No idea how this could be in the 1001 to listen to unless there's a big crowd of people who want to remember their modem connecting.

Hilfe. Ich bin sehr tolerant aber das war doch keine Musik mehr... was war das?

Apparently in 1978 you could just record you and your friends at the kitchen table with ambient noise in the background and call it music. This is straight trash and shouldn’t even have been allowed to exist much less allowed on this list.

Hated this

Não ouvi porque não tive interesse no disco! E as críticas que li eram devastadoras.

Absolutely garbage

Very not good

This is why I usually rate obscene and offensive rap albums 2/5, to make room for nonsense like this. At least those are somewhat entertaining, have good beats and samples. What's here? Computer noise, people talking in the background, industrial noise, more talking, other noise. I know this list doesn't specifically say it's for music only, but it's implied or else there would be stand-up comedy and other types of albums. This album barely qualifies as music. Yuck.

Maybe you had to be there? This shit sucks ass. It did kind of trance me out while I was on a run though so not the absolute worst. The high pitched alarm shit at the beginning is terrible.

Very meh.

Very weird. I was expecting that and there were some interesting bits mixed in but overall yeah...

I don't get it. I'm probably not supposed to. Fine, whatever, let's move on...

This is an interesting inclusion on the list! I thought this was 1001 Albums with music on them and not whatever this fucking bullshit was. There are more unpleasant albums on this list, but I can't remember one that has less music on them.

Pretty hard not to skip

I'm all for avantgarde and experimental music but this was a really terrible listen, like a background music for a factory or something similar. I guess there is a reason the genre is called industrial. The only thing I liked about the album is that its sound was ahead of its time - it was recorded in the 70s but it could have been something from the 90s or even 00s. But anyway, it was almost unbearable as there was absolutely no melodies, not anything that could be a called a 'song' so I have to give it 1 star.

I came into this really prepared to like it as I often have with the worst-rated albums from the list, but yeah, nah, this sucks. With the name of the band, I was expecting something offensive and harsh, but this is just plain boring. In a quite literal sense, the first few tracks are not music. The tracks are just a bunch of noises and recordings. No rhythm, no tone, no vocals created for the track. The title track is ok, even enjoyable, like an industrial-lite Krautrock? Weeping was mumbled, spoken word vocals over droning backing and intermittent strumming. Not bad, but not fun to hear. Hamburger lady much the same, but in some of the harsher noises I hear something like a much less fun Butthole Surfers. The outro We Hate You Little Girls is all that is wrong with this album - not music, not beautiful, trying very hard to provoke but eliciting only a sense of profound boredom. It has the sensibility of a university student performance art piece and about as much style, skill and meaning. The experience of listening to the whole album is like being trapped at a show you hate but can't leave until it's over. The majority is right in this case, it's a very bad album, although it was more interesting than another Dire Straits entry. A valuable though unenjoyable listen. Just out of curiosity, I listened to another Throbbing Gristle album immediately after, 20 Jazz Funk Greats. It's much more listenable and enjoyable while still retaining the same sound.

It's like background music for disturbing movie scenes. one track reminded me of fight club. maybe it would work better for me if this was part of a movie but for sitting in my living room and listening to an album it's not the stuff i listen to

Worst thing so far. Jesus fucking christ.

Industrial music's actual trash, innit?

This isn't music, it's just noise.

Really trying to push through this album, but Hamburger Lady really tested me. That was a very morbid and unsettling song if you can call it a song. The whole album is just distortion and noise with varying crescendos and voices speaking throughout to make it more unsettling. AB/7A was maybe the only song on the album, but was just an instrumental keyboard and drum track only to return to the creepy ambiance of scientists talking over distortion and other ambivalent noise. Trend pretty much continued on for the rest of the album. I hated every minute of it, but also somehow feel more fulfilled (??) to know this existed at some point in time.

Assolutamente no

I can’t it’s awful noise

Qué cojones

‘Like a small piece of Throbbing gristle’ was how Len’s 11th wife, the one and only Linda Lusardi described his erect penis! The marriage didn’t last long. 0.2

1/10. One of the worst albums I've ever had the misfortune of hearing. A constant assault on the senses. That being said, I think they achieved their goal with this album

Ugh, DOA is just another cookie-cutter, radio-friendly, crowd-pleaser. Way too mainstream and poppy for me. 2/10

zzz

While I can appreciate the experimental aspects of this record, I did not like it.

1 out of 5. Despite most of the reviews saying the same thing I didn't expect to dislike this album as much as I do. It does not spark joy.

If this was a film, I’d probably like it. However my tolerance for pretentious wank doesn’t extend to music.

I should have just skipped this when I saw the name "Throbbing Gristle". That said, perfect name for this band, the noise in this album turned my ears into throbbing gristle. Never again. Never should have even been in the first place. Yikes. I'd give this 0/5 if I could. 1/5

Music made by modern day cave folks. Or someone left the electronica on and laying around in an unsupervised preschool. As primitive as electronic music can be played. My head hurts after listening…thanks for that.

I didnt like this other than the children chatting it offended my ears.

Yeah no that's just noise

United

Glad I listen to this. I can now honestly say I have listened to the most godawful shite in the universe.

I definitely did not need to hear this before I die. Now that I've heard it, I would like to die.

Not even music.

Nah, maybe better when observing the art exhibition at the same time. Heard hints of Death in Vegas in there though.

This challenged me big time

Throbbing Gristle is a British band that pioneered industrial music. D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle is the band's third album, but not actually their last. Most of this is non-melodic noise - random samples, feedback, and static. Oddly, there are a few melodic spots - like the track "AB/7A" - that could be an Animal Collective track. For the few bright spots, there are too many tracks like "Hit by a Rock" and "Hamburger Lady."

The only thing final about this report is my willingness to ever play it again

Got through 3 tracks. I like challenging stuff but this was just weird.

uh no thanks

How many times can I get a truly awful album on a list of "must hear" albums? This is just atmospheric sounds, noises of people and children, and other ambient and electronic noises, which, in my mind, serve no purpose. You can't dance to it, you can't sing to it, can't play along to it, you can't workout to it, you can't relax to it...all you can do is "feel" something about it, and I felt irritated. It amazes me these artists think of these, record em, put it in an album, and then expect people to buy said album.

This is fucking shit. It's the first album though that gave me something I haven't heard yet. Still shit though

Suddenly Yoko Ono doesn’t sound so bad. I like Zoogz Rift, Magma, CAN, Brian Eno and Captain Beefheart 100x more than this. AB/7A is the only redeemable track. I’m still only giving the album a 1 for the overall pain it instilled on my ears Avant-Garbage.

It is just sound, like awesome it supposedly makes inbounds in experimental music but honestly, it felt so pointless listening to it. What do random noise and conversations mean with these interesting and experimental albums that showcase the best of music? No idea.

just no

First album that I just couldn’t finish. This is just a lot of noise and got on my nerves real quick.

I'm beginning to regret this endeavor. This is garbage, total and complete. The album cover is objectionable and the sounds that issued from the speakers in my headphones were appalling. I regret giving this extra plays on Spotify.

I've heard more interesting sounds emanating from the tyre and exhaust place opposite my house

Can I give this zero stars? This is not music.

Two or three of the songs are quite bad, if perhaps a bit interesting as an experiment. The rest is just unbearable. 1/10

No thanks. Nonsense. From the wiki…” Later reissues of the album omit the inset and card calendar due to its resemblance to child pornography.” Yeah I’m not interested in this.

Just why? This ain’t music

Ist das Musik? Das sind einfach aneinandergereihte Geräusche. Vielleicht muss ich hier auch mehr auf den Text achten, aber nach der Hälfte habe ich einfach kurz durchgeskippt und es waren wirklich immer nur irgendwelche Geräusche

I appreciate contemporary art for pushing the envelope of their respective art forms. You have to look at these things through the lense of cultural context - like with how serialism changed the way people thought about harmony etc. But a lot like serialism, looking back at artists like Schoenberg and Throbbing Gristle, it stops making sense in the modern day. If you find me one actual real life normal human with real life ears who thinks this album sounds -actually- good I’d be impressed.

20 seconds in: Thanks, I hate it. I think this is specially calibrated to lodge a sharp hook into my brain and scramble it. I think that experimentation in recording is important. It doesn't necessarily mean that all those experiments are music. Play this if the sound makes you feel less alone, but don't pretend it's anything other than an album of sound effects. Now I feel bad for docking a star from S&G's Bookends for "Voices of Old People." That was magnitudes more listenable.

This manages to somehow be both boring and obnoxious at the same time.

No one needs to listen to this album before they die.

ich "rauche" eindeutig zu wenig

Random sounds thrown with no reason in songs.

En samling ljud, inte musik. Har ingen aning vad grejen är och var här. Blev tvungen att googla och det visar sig att de är grundare till flera genrer som är absolut soptunna. Verkar som att de var en av de första med att strunta i sångstruktur, så vem vet om vi har interludes och beat switches utan de. = Om jag rökte på och fick för mig att jag var nya Aphex Twin. Andra delen av ”Hometime” ger mig rysningar och magont.

Not for me

Great way to get out of an obligation. Listen to this first thing in the morning and a headache is guaranteed. Also a great way to trigger nightmares. Could be useful if looking to simulate the sounds of hell? I do indeed feel like I've been 'Hit by a Rock'.

I respect the artistry of this band. Though I'm not sure I fully get what they're trying to do here, and even if I did I still don't enjoy it. I wouldn't say that there's no resemblance to music here, its atmospheric. AC/7A was sort of enjoyable but not enough to bump the score.

Nope.

Well when people say that music sounds like noise, I'm certain they aren't referencing this album... But they should be. Not really sure what the hell is going on here, but um.... yeah. Yeah.

Is this supposed to be a joke? Or is it supposed to test our believe in the 1001 albums "to hear before you die"? Why should anybody listen to this album? I reckon that you will find a couple of persons who actually like to listen to the album. But what have I missed if I hadn't listened to it. The answer is very, very simple: ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

41 minutes of my life I will never get back.

No one needs to listen to this album, should be removed

fuck you 1001 albums you need to listen to before you die

what a name. oh. and uh... not for me. look, I respect people who make industrial / noise (is there a difference? is that offensive??) but I don't fuck with industrial / noise. does that make sense? anyways. DNF. sorry.

This is atrocious.

Once you get past the opening tracks of modem sounds and noise, some of the later tracks are ok, but anything interesting about this album is buried deep under an obvious and tedious intention to shock, the revoltingly aversive band time, and the borderline paedophile cover art.

Just why?!?

Noise...just noise. I knew this would be difficult but it ended up mostly being just boring. 1/5

noise - a hard listen

Horrible

Ultimately, the goal of music should be to sound good. This does not. 1/5 Key tracks: AB/7A

This one is weird. Experimental? Or maybe they forgot they were recording? some of these are not songs. Why was this made? WHY was this on the list??? I made it to number 8.

0 stars. Garbage noise, nothing worth relisten. Beginning to question the criteria used to make this list.

This album sucks. “Art” rock is not my thing, it’s just noise as far as I’m concerned. No redeemable qualities here.

I'm lost.

* laughs nervously * what the fuck

1.5/10

Couldn’t get through it

Now I know why this is titled 1001 Albums You Should listen to and not music you should listen to before you die.

This is the soundtrack to schizophrenia

This is really toeing a fine line on what exactly music is, which really makes this more art than music - something designed to elicit and emotion, and not necessarily a positive one. While I can appreciate art rock, I can't stand listening to it when a whole album is like this.

Terrible Album, nothing redeeming about it. Maybe it would be slightly better if I was on acid or something

In a nutshell: industrial performance art. This was a hard listen. I haven't heard anything like this before. If your only exposure to noise is Nine Inch Nails (like me), then you're gonna be in for a shock here. For anyone who liked Kollapse by Einstürzende Neubauten or Psalm 69 by Ministry, this could be right up your alley. Will give two points for ingenuity. Overall: 2/10

couldn't finish

Just noises, nothing but noises

Well at least it's good to know that there's a floor to this list. A reference point or dictionary definition of what a 1 star album should sound like. Honestly, I get why this is on the list and I agree that you should listen to it once because after you do everything else will sound so much better by comparison.

This entire album feels like a joke that everybody else is in on besides me

Dreadful. I get it, they're challenging the norms on what could be considered music. That's why there are only like four tracks on here that have any sort of rhythm or melody, and all of them suck. I find it hard to believe that anyone, including the "artists", could possibly enjoy this, so the 1-star review must be what they've been going for anyway. ... That was the review I had prepared after making it through the album. And yet, a day later, there is more to be said. Most albums so far didn't captivate me for much longer than their runtime. This one was different. I did thorough research on the band's background. I found a concerningly active subreddit and was shocked to realize at least several people spent actual money on their physical records. I regrettably listened to "20 Jazz Funk Greats", which is still terrible, but at least undoubtedly music for the most part. I really tried to understand why this is a thing. I still don't. I spent the rest of the day listening to Igorrr and Mr.Bungle and had a great time. Long story short, this is still obviously a 1/5, but it might be the most fascinating one out there.

Not an album to listen to before you die, but an album that made me wish I was dead.

Didn’t need to listen to this one :)

"What in the fuck am I listening to?!" is how this album review started. I thought it's just a choice of intro, to start off an edgy band/album or something. But, seriously, what the fuck is this shit? Is it music? Is it the last surviving piece of tape of a recording jumbled up by a trash compactor that you're trying to play through a rusty blender? wtf is it? I never heard of this band before, and from this album I have no clue wtf they're about. Do they even make music? Maybe they recycle old casettes and try to stitch them together to see what it'll sound like? They could be selling potatoes for all I know because listening to this album I have no idea what's going on. Granted a few of these have a bit more rhythm and melody besides just random noises. The 2nd half of the album was more tolerable than the first. It could be great for the soundtrack of a dystopian/apocalyptic drama/horror production. Fair play for getting included. One of the albums to listen to before you die just so that you can find out such a band or style even exists. I'd justify this being on it more than some shit rock band that's not produced anything noticeable on an overplayed genre. At least this pushes some boundaries, becomes trully unique, and defines a genre of its own, even if you only play it once in your whole lifetime.

Fuck sake, it's the first listening day in December, can't I have some Nat King Cole or something? Instead I get a 'challenging listen', joy! The tracks with music in are either rubbish discordant noise, or mumbling nothingness, and the talking tracks you can't even hear what they're saying. This is absolute bollocks. I'm off to boot up some 'Christmas with Nat & Dean'.

I think Throbbing Gristle may have nicked this from the BBC sound effects library.

Absolute garbage.

Difficult to see how you can give this more than one star

Resembles music But noise and randomness reign In mechanic art

Shite

I just wasted 40+ listening to this garbage

Ist das Musik? Das sind einfach aneinandergereihte Geräusche. Vielleicht muss ich hier auch mehr auf den Text achten, aber nach der Hälfte habe ich einfach kurz durchgeskippt und es waren wirklich immer nur irgendwelche Geräusche

Industrial ambient boring music

Just random noise.

I’m 960ish albums in and this is easily in the bottom 2 of albums. Random noises, bad voiceovers, and ear piercing screeches does not make music. This was a steaming pile of horse, cattle, and pig shit combined.

This is just a bunch of sounds and audio clips put together. This is shit.

Shite

You’re fucking with me right?

D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle? More like D.O.A. the Torture Method of Throbbing Gristle because this album was genuine torture. Somehow this album managed to commit every no-no in music history. Horrible music that's overly repetitive and has start-and-stop loud moments? Check! Grainy and muffled vocals that make it impossible for me to decipher what they even are? Check! Terrible lyrics? I don't know since i couldn't even tell what they were. Even at 42 minutes, this album felt like it was dragging on and on. This may genuinely be the worst album i have ever done for this project. Sure, Will The Circle Be Unbroken was an overly long and repetitive country album but at least i can consider that music. Calling this album music though, is a MASSIVE stretch because this is just noise, Awful, awful noise. Best Song: AB/7A Worst Song: Walls of Sound

There are some interesting tracks/elements here, and I can genuinely see where the appeal and influence lies. That said, most of it sounds like a band that took all the wrong lessons from "Revolution 9". I'll still take it over Linkin Park, though. 1/5

DNF

Contrarians will convince themselves of their own superiority by saying they like this

The first 3 songs and Walls of Sound are very unpleasant. Thankfully United is only 16 seconds long. Dead on Arrival started out listenable and kept getting worse. Weeping is mostly boring. Are we getting some actual music on AB/7A? I liked that. Blood on the Floor sounds like a song, but it's like I'm 2 rooms away from where the music is playing. The rest is mostly talking with some sounds, which I really don't care for. Not the worst, but still a bad album.

This is an odd one. best track ab/7a sounds like it was made yesterday.

Koja pička materina. Okej ovo je neslušljivo u mom slučaju trenutno. Meni je ovo apsolutno preseravanje. To mi je kao oni ljudi koji daju dvogodišnjem djetetu platno i boju i dijete to raspršće posvuda i onda to dijete ima izložbu svojih radova. Ili ona vječna rasprava je li umjetnost kad netko nacrta crnu točku na bijeloj pozadini. Nisam, nažalost, poslušala cijeli album, možda mu se nekad vratim, ali danas mi stvarno nije bio dan za ovakve eksperimente. Still, pošto je takav dojam moram dati 1/5 ili 1.5/10.

1.5/10 Eksperimentalno brijanje gdje mi se bas nista nije dopalo. Ne mozes mi pricanje u studiju stavit pod pjesmu u album, iako sam se bar malo odmorio od silnog kreštanja. Ali to je art pa mozes. Dobro, kajgod. Jedino na stvari AB/7A su se malo dobili, ne znam sto im je uopce doslo ali bas nista ne mijenja. Zaboli me za tvoj art. Ici ce najniza ocjena do sad, ovo mi kurca ne valja. Mogao sam i u tisini sjedit.

Utterly offensive in the name of music. I'd chose to listen to John and Yoko's wedding album over whatever 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 is eight days a week. Laughable how actual people recorded "D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle" at a recording studio, the album got mixed and edited by professionals, and not one single person thought that it might've been a bad idea.

Um, so weird, so so weird, just noise? Feels like a bad acid trip..

Hardly even music. More like experimental auditory art I guess? Not my cuppa tea. I can see its influence on various electronic genres but it sounds more like a cacophonous collection of Brian Eno demos that would, in any other case, be left on the cutting room floor.

It's hard to describe what this is. I don't really hate it. My best description would be that it's the kind of music that I would expect to be in the background at some futuristic haunted house. Not really something I'd think of when looking for an "album", but more of a background accompaniment. I don't think I could see myself wanting to intentionally play this again.

Mostly garbage with a couple of musical moments here and there. Waste of time though. 1.5 stars

The experimental studio technique to create all these sounds is surely something I respect, but this album is unlistenable to me. It begins with a track I thought was just an intro but then turns out to be, well, an actual track that feels way too long for only two and a half minutes. The rest of the album is kakophonic as well, but all without any theme. People here shat on Einstürzende Neubauten, but this here is the actual bad and annoying album.

Really wish zero stars was an option

After the first "song": This is absolute garbage. Maybe it gets better? After the whole album: Nope, it doesn't get any better. Possibly even worse. Utter trash.

Oh God it's so bad. Never again.

Not for me

This album is terrible, I feel dumber and less cultured having listened to all of this album. I recommend you listen to no more than one minute of this album and preserve your brain for anything else. I give this zero stars.

Album 562 of 1001 Throbbing Gristle - D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle (1978) Rating : 1 / 5 Album name is perfect. It was D.O.A. Nothing good about this.

“Why?”

absolutely not

Right I have listened to the album, now please can I die!

2/10 One of those that boggles my mind for being anywhere near this list. Not good. Clearly designed to be almost unlistenable, like a drunk guy sticking out his chest and trying to provoke people into fights I’m sure it was influential in - essentially creating - industrial music, but so much of this is just random sounds, snippets of conversation, and it’s like a glass of fresh water when the occasional tune breaks out Best: Ab/7A

Yeah it’s not good, definitely a 1 star, but similar to Kollaps I’d rather listen to this than slip knot.

this is just a bunch of noises, sounded like a plane landing, i don’t really see why people would want to listen to this

Apart from a brief moment of enjoyment on Dead on Arrival, this was utter crap.

I feared the worst and most songs are unlistenable. That's probably what they wanted. Worse than Pere Ubu and that's saying something.

"DoA showcased some of our strongest work and established the course we would head in." If this is their strongest work, I'm definitely not listening to the other albums.

Noise

Not my taste.

“Favorite” Track: AB/7A

I swear to God I have listened to this before and it stunk the last time too! What a dull and thorough waste of my time.

nah

Cero estrellas. No entiendo cómo algo que es puro ruido entra a una lista de los mejores discos de la historia, pero bueno, yo que voy a saber. Insoportable.

I couldn’t listen but to the first couple of tracks! How can anyone call that Music?

“Capolavoro nauseante” fra, dì semplicemente che sei pretenzioso e bastian contrario

this is one of those albums that up themselves faggots will tell you 'was so important for the industry' or 'a huge inspiration for some of the greatest in experimental noise' but i guarantee you theyve never sat down and listened to this shit front to back in their own free time. now, while i admittedly didn't know people were doing noise this early which is kind of impressive, this is bad noise. this sucks. this has none of the rhythmic or hypnotic beat you want from noise, none of the interesting palette of sounds or variations. instead it's just overmodulated, over distorted discordant banging and electronic whining. it fucking sucks ass and also it's so fucking full of itself. the music is already pretentious as fuck, don't go around wanking your 2 incher claiming it's about 'extremist ideologies' and 'the dark recesses of human society and sexuality'. instead you should hang yourself with a noose. i was almost tempted to give it a 2 just because it probably was influential but then i remembered cabaret voltaire existed and i changed my mind, these guys deserve their dogshit score and im contributing to it.

who up throbbing they gristle

There should be a zero stars option for this

Conjunto de ruídos com a marca da aleatoriedade.

Amazing, finally I found a band that revolutionised music with a new, groundbreaking invention - industrial music. Without this new genre we wouldn't have bands like... Rammstein, I guess? Other than that, absolutely terrible and unlistenable album. Very easy 1.

I tried…I really did

Music only in the broadest definition of the term. Would only recommend to someone I really hate. No good songs just unpleasant noise.

Not gonna lie this opening is really turning me off. I fear this will be a 2 star album for me cus I’m really not into this…. I’m only on the second song so we’ll see I guess? If I’m being totally honest this is kinda unlistenable. I thought i might have a winner with “Weeping” but I fear not. I can see how this album may have felt ahead of its time, and therefore interesting, but I do not like it.

Wat een naam haha Wat een tyfus herrie, nee dank je Al dat 1e nummer laat mn oren bloeden Waarom staat dit in godsnaam ertussen Alleen AB/7A is nog beetje normaal 0/5 als ik het kon geven

Not a good listen for me

It’s just random noises…. Would give it a 0 if possible

Hit rock bottom today. Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse. 0/5

I came into this with an open mind having heard of Throbbing Gristle but never listening to them before. Relating this bullshit to punk in any way is fucking absurd, and anybody who tries to do so is trying way too hard to sound smart about music. There is nothing punk about this apart from musicians with little to no training performing. All this is is ambient electronica, and it fucking sucks. It's not interesting, it's pointless, there's no hidden message in the music, nothing. This is the adult version of babies being enthralled by mobiles. That being said, AB/7A is a cool track

Noise -5 Stars

unlistenable

This isn't music it's white noise

Could not rank this lower

I worry for Matt.

Still no Bob Seger

Wot.. there's no Zero stars ????

Just random noise and nonsense. If this is clever I dont get it. Awful. Favourite song: Nothing Least favourite: Every track Album artwork: Good cover

Is this what it sounds like inside the mind of a paedophile? What the fuck is up with that album cover with a sleeping girl in her underwear? That's beyond trying to be edgy and just sick.

Not at all my taste.

To each his own . . . and this ain't my own. I just hope Laurie Anderson isn't on this list too.

There is no reason I needed to hear that album before I die.

1.4 - I don't know what to say...

Bit of a difficult listen. Didn't really get it.

A calamitous and obnoxious waste of my time. I don’t care if this helped pioneer industrial music and certainly am no stranger to enjoying more experimental music, but no one should have to endure this

whoa dang

What a load of crap.

Horrible.

There was no music in this... just the noise of keyboards, static, soundbytes, and mish mash. Blech.

I don't know what this is. It's just noises kind of shoved together.

This is just noise and songs about pedophiles.

basically just random noise and conversations

This wouldn’t have made my top 10,001 albums.

Well before now, I’ve never been exposed to “industrial music”. Hopefully, this will be the only time I have to listen to such crap.

Uh, Nope!

As horrible as I imagined it would be.

Какафония бессмысленных звуков.

In one way, delightfully weird. In multiple other ways, heinously grating. I made it through, but just barely.

What a noise

Is there some part of this that qualifies as music? If so, I missed it.

Awful. What the fuck

Garbage

That was certainly sounds. Not sure I ever want to listen to it again.

Ist das Kunst oder kann das weg? Auf jeden Fall nicht auf nüchternen Magen hören. Sehr anstrengend, eine Ansammlung unterschiedlicher Geräusche. Mir eschließt sich das Konzept nicht. 1/5

Well that was…..something…

I always wonder how albums like this get made. Do they record just record it and send it out? Do they edit tracks?? and spend hours and eventually are like “hell yeah that’s it, this track is perfect”??? At least the band is appropriately named

Experimental British Industrial music isn't for everyone, and apparently I'm in that "everyone" category.

A very experimental album - should not be anywhere near this list

One star because i couldn't give it zero.

Experimental as fuck, I’ll give it that, but it’s just noise. Grating as fuck to my ears.

This is horrendous and whoever made this deserves insane torture time

Maybe we should stick to 1,000 albums to hear before you die from now on.

This is just sound effects and background noise.

This isn't even music. It is literally just random noises. Completely talentless and worthless "album" and deserves to be among the lowest rated garbage on this list. 0/10.

Not a fan, too much noise said the old man lol

Interesting

Noise!

Sometimes I feel like I'm not "cool" enough to appreciate some of the albums on this list. In this case, it appears to not only be me. Made it all the way through, but only just.

I wasn’t too keen on this

Horrible, zero stars

I'm way more confused than I was before listening to this album.

I don’t know what it is, but it’s not music, it’s a collection of random sounds from horror films, this shouldn’t happen

one of the worst albums i have ever heard, how this is considered a influential album is beyond me, i would give it a score of ZERO if i could

Wtf is this

The only time while listening that I thought, wait, maybe this isn’t all mindless nonsense, turned out to be during the first song from another band that Apple chose for me after this album had finished.

Nope, couldn't do it. I couldn't get through the 1st song.

Yeah no fucking thanks

Yuck

TOO STRESSED

I tried

Get ekki hlustað á þetta í gegn. Ofboðslega mikið vont áreiti í þessum hljóðheimi. Nema mögulega í laginu AB/7A. Úff.

Utter trash

This album tries to be hard to listen to and they nailed it

Mostly just noise. Every once in a while a song appears for a brief moment and it's back to noise. Can hear some sounds that eventually make their way into industrial rock, only other bands actually make music out of it by putting them into melodies or some sort of rhythm. Most of the tracks remind me of noises a kid would assemble and call it music, and a parent would say "oh yeah, great job buddy" and hope they never have to hear it again.

Sounds like static on a badly tuned radio

Worst album I have ever heard but I suppose it was from the late 70s which was unique

This is garbage - wish we had a 0 star option

I think there’s probably an interesting debate about if this is even music out there, but I don’t want to hear it or this

#trash

Couldn't get through it

I already had a headache going into this one and it didn't help. I had to bail at track 4. I get what they are doing though, definitely an art project.

I understand that this band led the way for industrial music, but it's a terrible album

This was one of the most unpleasant experiences I’ve had on this list but it was still at least interesting unpleasant. To me it was like a more sophisticated kollaps but without the fun gimmick of using power tools which made it both more interesting and less fun. It’s also hard for me to judge this since the band is clearly musically talented just based off ab/7a, which managed to be actually good, but I think they just decided to make one of the most grating albums possible. Probably getting a 1 based off personal enjoyment but at least it’s still worth talking about at some length.

Hull! I’m from Hull and I kind of get why you’d end up making something like this… I didn’t hate it as much as I was expecting, but it’s still pretty unlistenable.

Deeply unpleasant, but at least a little creative. I'd give it 1.5 stars if possible, but that isn't an option, so I'll probably give it 1 star out of 5.

I tried to listen to this, but only heard sounds similar to a fax noise, then some faint notes... more silence... some children? It must have been a bad internet connection or something. Eventually, some music came through, but it too was disrupted by a poor internet connection. Oddly, no other music I listened to this day was similarly impacted by my spotty connection. I suppose it would be funny to learn the artist intended this. But I joke.

Dieses Album wurde in die Liste der 1001 Alben aufgenommen. Weil es anders ist? Ganz anders. Weil es Leute gibt die Disharmonien und Geräusche lieben, die nicht so leicht ins Ohr gehen? War ein Song darauf mit Melodie? Vielleicht Weeping oder AB/7A? Ich habe es nicht geschafft das Album in einem Zug durch zu hören. Musste einfach eine Pause zu machen. Die Ohren und meine Seele wollten es. Über die Produktion kann ich nur lobende Worte sprechen. Klarer Sound, tolle Stereoeffekte. Das war es dann auch schon.

What in all hell is this?! Worst album so far by a comfortable margin. Makes me miss the weird duck thing.

There's some interesting moments, but a lot of it is pure excrement. I could have happily died without hearing this.

Hmm... für mich ist es eine Geräuschsammlung und keine Musik.

honestly gave it a try but even as open minded as I am this is not what music is for me.

No. -5 stars.

Just noise

"Industrial", lots of noise but not much music

turbo uber psychodeliczne creepy do sluchania na kwasie

what the fuck

To paraphrase Walter Sobchek "Say what you will about the more obscure 80s Britpop, at least it's music". I don't know what the hell this is and certainly have no idea why I should have heard it before I die.

This is like steps beyond “Revolution #9.” It took me years to appreciate that track. Maybe one day I’ll enjoy this album but for now it’s uncomfortable noise, almost like a fever dream. But that’s probably the point.

Dit vond ik gewoon te oncomfortabel om af te luisteren

What did I just listen to? People think this is more than random noise?

oh come off it

Not music?

NO

Just noise.

Weirdest

First of all, WHAT? I get that this is industrial, artistic music, and I know it’s not for everyone (if it’s for anyone at all), but I just don’t find any intrinsic enjoyment or value in this album. It feels like an abstract artistic piece that has to be accepted as such, but as pure music, it’s almost impossible to listen to. It’s like a total destruction of music itself, and I feel like that was probably the point. Honestly, it sounds like if Aphex Twin were deaf, handicapped, and had no sense of music whatsoever. As art, you could rank it higher, but as music, this is pure malakia.

This is the worst thing I’ve ever listened to. Why is it here? Why does it exist? It made me want to drive into a ditch hearing it. This album should not be allowed to exist.

Bit of an ‘Emporers new coat’ record for me this. I just don’t understand how it is so well respected. I’m a fan of avante garde / noise / experimental but this is just a bit pointless. It hasnt even pushed boundaries, it’s just pointless. They must be laughing at the idea its even on this list. Was tempted to give them an extra star for being described in parliament as the ‘wreckers of civilisation’, and for AB7A resembling a decent song, but it really doesnt justify it

Wasn't great background music. Not a huge fan of songs that are intentionally unlistenable, and I'd say Gristle mostly achieved this by recording random conversations and sounds. I feel anyone with the intention to put out something like this could do it by recording the first things that came into their head. Much prefer Laibach who I think put a lot more effort into sounding unsettling.

What was all that about then?

1 star is far too generous for this random noise album.

There were tiny bits and pieces which were tolerable, massive a bit kraut rock? However, far too much of it was so jarring and grating. Just noises!

This isn't music. It's just sound effects. Completely pointless.

Dirt bikes & chain saws.

Salem does not approve. I don't understand what the appeal is for this type of music. Sure, maybe what they were tinkering with could eventually evolve into something meaningful, but this is just a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters until something meaningful is accidentally produced.

Literally unlistenable.

Ya, didn't get this one.

Wow that sucked. I could have died happily without listening to this.

This album is just super grimy, I don't really know how to describe it better. It's got this harsh industrial sound, lots of like jarring background noises and vocals and things. I feel like more experimental stuff like this either really works for me or really doesn't. I had a few moments where I felt like I could hear some good stuff underneath, but overall it just was too much for me. The sound is just too abrasive, it's got an unsettling sound in a not good way. The cover art is also highly questionable. This sounds like something that was meant for a small modern art museum, or maybe a haunted house. It's not one of the 1000 best albums of all time though. Favorite song: AB/7A Other: Hamburger Lady 2/23/24

Big yikes.

I did listen to all of it! Which possibly means it deserves a higher rating than several other albums that I've given 3s. Unfortunately I did not enjoy this, though to be fair the first song was a lot worse than many of the rest of them

I don’t know what this was but it wasn’t music. 1/10

Awful. 0/10

This shit's ass 1/10

This is not music. Why the fuck is this on here? 1/10

Nope.

Oh dear. *shakes head slowly* Oh deary deary dear.