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

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.

If I could give this negative stars I would. One thing I learned is that if an album is labelled as 'avant garde' it's going to be a steaming pile of crap. I tried to listen to each track and realised I could make music just be recording my neighbour mowing the lawn.

This is just noise. Did not finish. 1/5

Awful

A nauseating masterpiece? I didn't realize the album cover was a live look at the person making this album. Correct me if I'm wrong, but making sounds is very different from making music. Throbbing Gristle...this album did not throb (beyond the natural throbbing sound of static) but it did remind me of Gristle in some ways. Actually, that's it's essentially the physical reaction my brain had, throbbing to gristle, as this music started playing. It's almost become a bit because I also admire them thinking they could just record some sounds like this and get away with it. And get on this list. Brilliant. Also is this the first picture of FaceTime? with that little rectangle in the bottom right.

Meh

Disappointed in the lack of a zero star option. Not so much music as a series of unpleasant noises. I didn't find any of it challenging or interesting, just unpleasant and I hope I never hear it again. I tried to think of something positive to say. All I could come up with was that I didn't hate AB/7A. It wasn't good, but it wasn't painful to listen to.

not for me

This is utter garbage.

Música experimental con demasiados sonidos ajenos a instrumentos musicales. El álbum que indicáis no está en tidal, así que escuché otro de 1986.

Man if only I were smart enough to release the sounds of my modem from the 90s. I'd be a genius! As always open mind but this is utter shit. Reading about this group I see why it is included and then you learn about the horrible piece of shit one of the members was. Real absolute trash of a person. Should be relegated to the museum as a historical curiosity but otherwise it's garbage music by a band with a garbage person in it (the other people seem okay and dealt had to live with the abuse)

What the fuck am I listening to? Also, this is not an album by D.O.A. as I originally thought, it's by Throbbing Gristle. Weird, experimental, \"art\" I guess? I'm sure this has a place in music history but it's not what I would call \"music.\"

schrecklich

What is this shit and why am I listening to it? Delete it from the universe.

2/10

To call this album bad would be giving it to much credit. It's a shame there isn't a way to give it 0 starts.

Þetta hefur verið eitthvað áhugavert á sínum tíma en þetta þótti mér afskaplega leiðinlegt. Var afskaplega feginn þegar platan kláraðist.

No.

I think I'm being punked

Reminds me yet again, that what people like and how they rate music is objective. How anybody could like this music is beyond me. An absolute waste of time.

I normally defend "weird" music, but this genuinely just sounds like random noises

FFS, this isn't even music. I would give it zero stars if I could.

How is this album a contender for being an album to listen to? This sucks No top tracks

WTF

This was terrible. Why did I need to listen to it before I died??

Hmmm. Horror Movie/Mental Illness Soundtrack… Glad I only have to listen to that once in my lifetime!

I would give it a negative 5 if possible

No le veo sentido

Fucking. Garbage. Avante Garde my balls. Can't even give it a rating.

Boooooooo I don’t know anything about this artist, but I am super disappointed that this is one of the top 1000 albums of all time. This was the equivalent of some one just recording random noises. Do not listen to this

It’s different which is cool but at the end of the day it’s just a bunch of random sounds

This is bad. I’m not sure how this is even considered music.

Nope

basta por favor. 1/10

... What the hell was that?

It's in what you don't hear.

It definitely consists of sounds.

This was awful. The mere presence of this album calls into question the sanity of the person making this list, and thus the value of the entire list.

This is just noise. No good.

What the actual hell have I just listened to

DNF

I don't get it. Just noise, but not in the nice way. I didn't find any music in it, so i don't know, how this could be an album you have to listen to. On the plus side, there is no PJ Harvey whining. Actually no singing at all.

I honestly can't get over the entirely unnecessary imagery of the young sleeping girl on the album cover. Add to that the deliberate inaccessibility of the music, and I'm not conflicted at all with giving this 1 star.

I can see the vision I guess, and actually appreciate a few tracks (AB/7A is legitimately good and Walls of Sound is true to its name). Overall though I did not like how this sounded at all

Are they trying to break my speakers and make me hate life? Because that's where this is heading.

it’s just noise, is this music or is it just noise experimentation that could of possibly influenced? To me it’s not music

noiseeee

Awful. Random noise. Just no.

noise!! no

Pota panget

An atrocious piece of shit. 0 stars.

i didnt get on with the child porn cover

the album cover is just wrong...who allows this to be publicly done to little kids? you sick fucks!

I had never heard of this band or this album before it popped up on my list generator today, and my life would have been blissfully complete if it had stayed that way. I will admit there is something in Weeping, but it's the stuff of nightmares. I feel like I need to cover my eyes as I listen to it because it sounds like the climax of a horror movie. Or maybe I should be running, because I'm not watching a horror movie and I'm about to be mauled by a one-eyed axe-wielding psychopath. I will not be sleeping well tonight.

People need to stop calling sound experiment "music".

Crap. Or, what I meant to say, is “I’m sure there’s artistic value in there somewhere, but I was unable to find it”

I know it's hip to like these really out-there experimental records but right from the start this one doesn't do anything for me musically. I'm glad there is some variation as far as the tracks becoming a little more musical at times and not only piercing noises but in general I wouldn't define this as a music album, with 4 minute tracks of mostly inaudible dialogue. I don't generally enjoy albums or art that are seemingly just created to challenge the audience. You might as well just take a piss on stage, it would be a lot less work. I legitimately can't imagine anyone putting this on in a group of people and not having someone say, "what the fuck is this?" and not in a good way. I'm all for experimentation but I do expect an ounce of musicality if you're going to call yourself a band and release an album. This was a pretty exhausting listen. Standout Track: AB/7A

Awful

dear god no

Dafuq is this?

Do they use this to torture during an interrogation? My ears are bleeding

Not the Sunday morning album over coffee I was hoping for.

Nope.

Worst album I’ve literally ever heard

“What the hell”- Tim Robinson. Yeah I don’t get avant garde for the sake of avant garde. You can’t tell me these guys sat down to make this and went “holy shit we’ve done it. What great music we’ve made”. It feels phoned in, like a prank, wow no one’s done this before. Wack

Someone once said there is music all around us. Throbbing Gristle set out to disprove that statement. This album is a must listen to before you die, just so you can hear most unnecessary “music” ever created. 0.3/10

Not quite my thing. Seems edgy just to be edgy. 1.4/5

Oh I’m sorry, I thought I was supposed to be listening to music.

Too abstract. 1/5

I have no choice but to steal another review that I found on this album. Massive banger after massive banger. Huge soaring choruses, exquisite melodies and perfectly polished pop hooks. An earworm if ever there was one.

Ain’t for me

Call me one of the unwashed masses, because this is just noise.

i get it. i hated it.

Siinä missä Einstürzende Neubauten ylittää riman sympaattisella rytmiikallaan, tätä bändiä ei vain tunnu kiinnostavan. Yhtye myy häiritsevyyttä vailla perusteita, ja rukoilee, että kuulija tulkitsee sen merkityksellisyytenä. Opetus: aidot kauhun tunteet eivät itsessään osoita niiden aiheuttajan arvoa.

Maybe art. Definitely not music.

interesting title extremely industrial and loud this shit is ass dawg 🤗 couldnt bring myself to listen to the entire thing

dio mio cosa mi tocca ascoltare

The cruelest irony here is that while the name “Throbbing Gristle” refers to an erect penis, the band’s music is hell-bent on encouraging anything but. In the 42 excruciating minutes of this 1978 [album? art-piece? installation?] I didn’t feel a single twinge down there. This is “music” to curl up, shrivel and die a lonely, flaccid death to. “D.O.A: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle” showcases the Throbbing Gristle collective as an avant-garde unit. By all accounts, it set a benchmark for industrial music and doggedly went against the mainstream. Many of the album’s tracks are instrumentals, as the band mess around with synths to create textured, foreboding sound collages. “I.B.M” opens the album with looping squalling feedback, dial-up tones and indecipherable layered spoken word. “AB/7A” is a basic, uncharacteristically listenable exercise in arpeggios with a drum machine ticking underneath. “E-Coli” is led by gloomy synth bass, long and low drones. In between these sequences, some tracks come slamming in as if to assure us that Throbbing Gristle are actually a band. In “Hit By a Rock”, anguished vocals bellow something like a tune, as the bass rumbles away with no clarity, care or craft. “Dead on Arrival” begins as an actual song, but is swiftly laboured with aimless sonic experimentation. And while “United” began life as one of the band’s only singles, here it is sped up to sixteen seconds. It’s a goading move, but to be honest I consider it a mercy. The album seems to hit its aims the most when it leans into straight-ahead horror. The infamous “Hamburger Lady”, the only Theobbing Gristle track I was aware of, recites a spoken word piece about the terrible condition of a car-crash victim. It’s a cheap and schlocky move which is then somehow upstaged by “Walls of Sound”, three minutes of aural torture. Squealing dentist drills, howling feedback, burning white-noise… the world crumbles. All that’s left to fill out the runtime are rambling taped conversations or field recordings with no discernible message or purpose. “Hometime” and “Valley of the Shadow of Death” achieve nothing besides weighing down the album further, and “Death Threats” is a forty-second voice message to band member Cosey Fanni Tutti, threatening to have her “well and truly done over”. “D.O.A” is a fearsome piece of art. It never stops pushing the envelope, exploring new ways of innovating, experimenting with the outer limits of what music can be. It’s bold, it’s pioneering, and it’s significant. Sadly, though, all of these things can be true, and it can still be the most insufferable bullshit I’ve ever heard. Consider my gristle lifeless and non-throbbing.

Hard pass

I don't understand why this was recommended. It just noise. Very annoying noise.

I don't get it. Just because something is novel and not done before, doesn't make it artistically valuable. This does not add anything significant to music. It is an experimental album, not one of the greatest.

Am I in a modern art gallery? For sure? Is my computer broken? No? Then what's wrong?

This is not music. It shoudn't be on this list.

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Being influential is not a reason to rate it highly IMO. I had low expectations given the reviews and it probably wasn't quite as bad as I expected, however that isn't saying much. I have no idea when or why I'd want to listen to this, most of it doesn't resemble music, and I think people giving it 5* just want to look clever

pre industrial industrial. If this didn't exist, then NIN might not exist. I'm debating on if it's worth all that. This album is truly unlistenable, non-music.

No.

The emporers new clothes was an interesting idea once upon a time too. Utterly irrelevant and little artistic merit once you take away what was probably the shock of the new at the time. There is no way this is in the top 10,001 albums of all time, let alone 1,001. The beard weirdly dated nature of this play list keeps on coming through.

This isn't music. It's the soundtrack to my kids being forced to do the dishes.

I mean...

1* for the dissapointment of no Manic Miner after the loading sound from track #1

Absolute garbage... My ears and sanity will never forgive me for subjecting them to this much tripe in such a short time.

I was really hoping for an uptempo album today. Something that I could put on and rock to the beat with, and then let the suggested tracks to follow the album play out. Wash, rinse, repeat for the whole day. I love when that happens - a nice surprise. This was not that. It was cringeworthy from the beginning. Yeah, I get that the high pitched sounds were probably what they were going for with IBM (it sounded like what you hear when you call a fax machine, and this was before we would've known that sound). But man, the whole album was grating. And when it wasn't putting the weirdest objects together to generate the most unusual sounds, it was a bunch of Brits going on about drivel (Valley of the Shadow of Death, Death Threats), or it was both unusual sounds and drivel (Hamburger Lady, Hometime). Admittedly songs like Dead on Arrival and AB/7A were cool, but that was too rare an occurrence. I tried, I really did, to get through it all without skipping any parts. But I couldn't. That was terrible.

This is mostly noise. Unlistenable. 1/5

Really? Why? It could be a good soundtrack for an art house movie. But as an album of music and nothing but music, it's awful.

why. If this came out in the 1700s I would've understood that mankind had just discovered new ways to make new sounds and were trying to convince the general public that Mozart was overrated and this is the music of the people, but really it was just a bunch of street rats suffering from Long Plague who happened to stumble upon a melody. Just because it's melodic does not make it music. That being said, there is a place for this. Even if that place is the soundtrack to some dystopian cyberpunk game.

Blind album and artist. What. The. Fuck... this is garbage... I genuinely tried to listen to this and I have no clue what this even is. It makes my ears want to bleed. Good on this band for trying to be different and do something artistic but just cause it's artistic and creative doesn't mean it's good. There's 1 audible track on here and it's not even good.

Oh my god, fuck this shit so hard! No wonder everyone hates it!! Absolute, complete and utter nonsense. Straight up sonic torture. Frankly, it should be avoided if you'd like to keep on living and enjoying albums. This should be on the 1001 Albums to Definitely NOT Hear Because You Are Not Missing Out At All list. Jesus Christ, how could you let this happen? I'm holding you personally responsible for this.

After listening to a couple of songs I said out loud that I would be very surprised if this album's global score was over 2. Do I know my 1001 or what?

These guys .03 behind Einstürzende Neubauten for the lowest score on 1001, which I agree with. I think EN still deserves the coveted #1 spot, since that LP, as I remember, was straight noise and this is mostly noise. There is a gap to Residents at #3 and Napalm Death at #4. I agree here as well since I think those guys are definitely more talented (at this point anyway - Throbbing Gristle turned to music a few years later).

Electronic industrial/noise music. I know that this is cult shit, but this is not for me. The song AB/7A is OK (loop that I could imagine as a part of a DJ set), otherwise not a single song that I found engaging.

I admire and appreciate the hell out of these guys for having the courage to commit this shit to tape back in 1978. It inspired a whole generation of industrial rockers and had a large say in the future of electronic music. Is it enjoyable to listen to in a vacuum though? No, absolutely not.

Fuck it, I'm tripping.

I thought some other albums have been a struggle on this list, but this one takes the cake. Maybe that's its purpose. Maybe its genius. Maybe it takes a genius to truly appreciate their work here. Any of those could be true, but I know one thing is true for sure, this album is not for me.

I have never wanted something end so fast. Barely made it through two songs.

I don't know how this album can even be counted as music as it's just noise and screaming noises. If this was an art istalation I would understand but you can't really call this music. I can see what they were going for but it didn't really work.

Absolutely terrible experimental industrial rock album. No unintended absurdity to laugh at. An attempt to be serious gone wrong. A bit of musicality here and there. Mid 1.

More noise than music. Really hard to get through this one. 1/5 Won't listen again

Total shite - if I could score lower than 1 I would.

Turned off. Would have made it 0 if able

Weird electronic noises and conversations you can't hear. Not really music.

Did not enjoy

That may be the worst one yet.

WTF is this?

Not music

An experimental album that sounds like it was experimenting for the sake of being experimental. If it brought anything new to the scene, it was lost on me.

QUE COÑO?!?!?

Who ever things this is remotely good needs a psychological evaluation

Bad

I guess that was technically an album.

spiritual war is real, you must choose a side

worst i have ever heard

Not my style. Industrial has value, but it’s a tough listen. I’m sure this was much more innovative in its time when there was less stuff like it.

Noises and people talking

wtf is this shit

Nope. I'm not listening to this trash.

You think you've heard it all and then you find yourself listening to Throbbing Gristle. There were a few scant glimmers of hope in this album, but it was mostly an ocean of unpleasant more or less experimental noise. It was chewy and hear to get through but I slogged it out. Hope not to ever experience it again!

This could either be a soundtrack to a robot snuff film or the rise of living dead. Also, this is quite possibly the worst album I've been exposed to here. I'm all for noise rock, but this noise doesn't rock.

Throbbing Gristle brings us the second 1-star industrial entry on the list, joining The Young Gods in notoriety. Apparently I thought at the time that amongst the awful, The Young Gods had "some moments with some interesting music." Those are rarer on "D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle," although "AB/7A" was actually listenable. Genesis P-Orridge (actually) and the Gristle gang delivered possibly the worst album on the list, and the time spent listening (and reading P-Orridge's Wikipedia page) is time I'll sadly never have back. So industrial music is overrepresented. You know what's underrepresented? Emo. Emo might have been the butt of many jokes in the 2000s, but the genre's early days in the 80s and 90s and its heydey in the 2000s delivered several worthy albums. So I'll use this space to advocate for one of them. Jimmy Eat World "Bleed American" (2001) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It may be poppier and more mainstream than the forerunners of the genre, but it delivers with raw emotion through great lyrics, earnest vocals, and driving guitars. JEW were on an incredible run that peaked at "Bleed American" but continued on through "Futures," and their hits, talent, and longevity all merit an inclusion on the list. Hopefully there won't be any more industrial albums, but if there are I'll be back with Sunny Day Real Estate, The Get Up Kids, and more to give an underrated genre its due.

So many different ways to make noise that aren't at all what I would consider music.

. This had zero redeeming qualities

I’m not even sure what I just listened to. It’s not music. I can’t imagine why these noises were ever recorded for someone else to hear. The on exception is AB/7A. It reminds me of the Tron Legacy soundtrack, which is amazing…obviously. Still not enough to pull this irredeemable pile of shot out of the bottom.

Did not enjoy in the slightest

I am so confused. Do I need to take LSD to enjoy this.