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

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

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