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

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.

No nyt on kokeellista. Päätä särkee.

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.

Ummm...I tried really hard to listen to the whole thing but yeah...that didn't happen. Not my cup of tea for sure.

Well, this is something. Experimental? It is perhaps another example of a gateway piece that opened doors for others, that established a foundation that others built masterpieces upon. In this time, and in this place, this album isn't for me. Perhaps it would have been in 1978. Now? I'll stick with Bass Communion.

This is a collection of sound effects, not something a rational person would listen to for pleasure. Let's all agree that even if we tried to listen to this with an open mind, it cannot be classified as "good music" under any rubric. The best thing you can say about this album is that "Throbbing Gristle" is a mildly amusing band name and "Hamburger Lady" is a mildly amusing song title.

Obviously, as “music” this leaves something to be desired. Which is why we must have to be able to appreciate it on another level to understand how it is one of the greatest albums of all time. Fortunately, I have figured out that that level is “sound to be forced into one’s ear holes as one lies on the floor of a sub-basement London rave twitching and spasming uncontrollably in a pool of the mixed bodily fluids of one’s fellow ravers while one hallucinates fragmented horror scenes too disturbing to recount here, all from the effects of whatever the fuck was in that shit one just bought from the sketchy creep at the door on the way down to this particular incarnation of hell.” In that context, this shit is fucking lit, I am sure.

I cannot imagine ever returning to this, however it was nice to experience an early entry in the industrial/noise genre, and it was well produced.

Terrible!

I’ve actually heard a couple of albums like this on the list now (‘Kollaps’ by Einstürzende Neubauten comes to mind), where the spirit of experimentation isn’t in doubt and some of the resulting sounds are pretty cool, but I just don’t think there’s enough there to make a good album. It sounds like a collection of demos/jams, half of which could’ve be fleshed out into decent tracks (E-Coli and Hamburger Lady are genuinely unnerving, in a good way) and half of which should probably never have been taken any further, let alone released. 1.5

???

Oh hell yeah been waiting for some Throbbing Gristle! Oh fam this ain't it. What they just played is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in their rambling, incoherent response were they even close to anything that could be considered a rational song. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

Never heard of these. It's just a load of noise... I don't know what I'm supposed to do with this. Not for me this. Rubbish

This has only the 2nd lowest overall rating. I'm not liking forward to what came last. This excrement is a waste of time.

Not for me

Would actually probably like this But I don't have the patience 1

Exasperating, nauseating, pointless. This is not music to me.

This got 1 star because there is no option for 0.

Nope.

I got through one song and said to myself I don’t HAVE to listen to this before I die.

easily the worst album i have ever heard

Sucesión de canciones sin ningún tipo de sentido, ni ritmo ni coherencia. El que lo incluyó aquí se cubrió de gloria. No vale ni una canción. Estilo indefinible

Totaal niet voor in de stemming.

Dit deed mij bij vlagen denken aan de Bossche cult-band Power of Jism denken; Net zo intrigerend en slecht!

Wat is dit voor bizar spektakel

Lekker als muziekjournalist de pretentieuze stumper uithangen en dit promoten om op te nemen in de lijst 1001 albums die je gehoord moet hebben. Echt rot op zeg, dit heeft niet eens iets met muziek te maken. Dit is wat gerommel in de marge, waar toevallig 'geluid' uit kwam. 0/5 sterren! Opzouten!

Bah.

It really hurt my ears

What. The. Fuck. I think I figured out this list - Its not just like "the best albums ever that everyone should hear", its also "holy shit this is the worst album of all time and you have to hear it to believe it". This is the worst album I have ever heard, and possibly even the worst of all time. 0/5 (have to give 1 star, but its not even a 1 star album)

While I applaud a willingness to experiment, to challenge existing conventions and to push the boundaries of what is considered music, I did not enjoy the outcomes of these experiments in this instance. I only listened to the first half of half the songs on the album, but why I did hear was pretty much unlistenable. I guess that the influence this album had on later was music was mostly on music I don't enjoy.

Absolute fucking bollocks.

What the hell was this nonsense. Deserves a zero

1/5

The global score for this one sure prepares you for a wild ride into weird noisy experimental stuff. Only the score of Einsturdenze Neubaten's *Kolaps* (another early "industrial" landmark) is currently lower than the one of *D.O.A.*--a situation that I think is particularly unfair in my book, given that *Kolaps* is far more "musical" (or at least "rhythmical" ) than Throbbing Gristle's unsettling soundscapes. Still, that's quite a feat to be remembered for something that automatically elicits rejection on most listeners' part decades after your release. As the lyrics candidly go on "Hit By A Rock": "Makes me think you don't like my records". Indeed. That said, I'm still glad I've listened to this album, even if I could have lived without doing so. I might have my gripes with this list sometimes, but as I said elsewhere, I think it's important that said weird noisy experimental stuff can find its way in it. The thing is, should *this* particular experimental stuff be deemed as more essential than other examples of it? On which ground can one be selected and the other rejected? This is a difficult question and the jury's still out on this one... The answer may or may mot lie in the way Throbbing Gristle give hints here and there about their awareness that they're writing a future cult classic for a certain sub-type of listeners. Some of those hints are more subtle than the lyrics I've quoted up there (or say, the hilarious parody of the artwork in their other album *20 Jazz Funk Greats*). It's hidden in all the static. But it's there. And it gives the whole endeavor an aura of mystery, as dull as the music is most of the time. Maybe with the right drug, I could get immersed in those soundscapes a little more, however. And even sober, I can recognize the few merits of Throbbing Gristle's "music" once in a while: "Dead On Arrival" could be the soundtrack of a vintage sci-fi flick. "Weeping" (unwittingly?) uses a weird tuning for its different strings that sends you close to a meditative state of mind--yet it's a state of mind at odds with the miserable feelings expressed in the lyrics of this "song" about loneliness within couples or partnerships. I admit the whole thing can... strike a chord indeed. Even if the latter sounds out of tune. "Hamburger Lady" is yet another difficult cut, but sonically speaking, it's rather timeless. Don't get me wrong, it's still dull music, but it's the fact that said dull music was recorded in 1978 that makes it extraordinary: if you said it was an Arca track, no one would notice the difference, for instance. Conversely, "AB/7A" is regressive in the sense that it hearkens back to what Tangerine Dream were doing a few years before this album came out. The track is strangely soothing though. And accessible, which is a rare accurence in this LP. Finally, to end this list of compliments, "E-Coli" reminds me of droning interludes or transitory moments within compositions post-rock bands such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor or Mogwai create once in a while--those recorded talking voices over it create a distinct mood like that... As you can see, I tried very hard to be positive here. But apart from this track sequence right in the middle of *D.O.A...*, the rest sounds utterly meaningless to me, though. Probably because, well, it just *is* meaningless--rationalisations of a couple of bad-faith "rock-critics" notwithstanding. Worse, the whole thing is rather unmemorable--apart from "Weeping" and "AB/7A", maybe--and when you try to shock your audience with how daring and uncompromising you are as an artist, that's a sign that you actually miserably failed at what you were doing. This here is the *worst* crime, and it has nothing to do with your noisy aesthetics. To be perfewctly candid, I really hope this LP can reach the bottom of this list again (it did so in the past), and thus replace Ensturdenze Neubatten's *Kolaps*, which is ten times better (some would say that doesn't make it a great album either given how bad *D.O.A... is, lol... yet I still think a one-star assessment is way too harsh for the German band). Speaking of the "unpopular" section of this app's global stats, there are two or three other acts unfairly stuck in it, by the way--Robert Wyatt and That Incredible String Band come to mind here. Yet generally speaking, when the people speak and express such a clearly *negative* consensus, it's because they have a point. And the fact that they can both reject Limp Bizkit and Throbbing Gristle is a reassuring thought, I have to say. If one day a found a very cheap copy of *D.O.A...* in a record store (strange miracles happen sometimes), maybe I would buy it to listen to it for a second time. Or maybe I would just do it to add a rare curio to my album collection. Just as I could do it for Captain Beefheart's *Trout Mask Replica*. Those sorts of record could have their own section: "the most hated albums of all time"... But let's be honest here, I would NEVER go out of my way to buy those records. And *that* is my own final report on how bad *D.O.A.* is. Number of albums left to review: 492 Number of albums from the list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 240 Albums from the list I *might* include in mine later on: 115 Albums from the list I will certainly *not* include in mine (many others are more essential to me): 150 (including *D.O.A.*--and if *really* you want to select a Throbbing Gristle record, I feel like *20 Jazz-Funk Greats* is slightly more accessible, thanks to its more parodic intents. But that's as far as I'll ever go to "defend" this band...)

Is it music? Technically, I guess. Does it inspire, enrich, or connect with the listener? Not this particular human.

it sounds like two children playing in the garbage

Utter durge!! Why is this on here ?

No, just no. This album was absolutely awful. If I could give it a 0, I would have.

Awful, just awful

As if I just listened to an entire albums worth of pearl jams "heyfoxymophandle" and nirvanas "endless nameless" except this is the extent of their ability and they're actually serious. Why am I listening to this and why is it on this list??

ass cheeks. just sound :/

Don't know what to expect here but at least it doesn't seem like country. Okay this is super trippy. Very experimental. No real melody or tunes. I'll give it a 1.

Random noise bull. Definitely doesn't NEED to be heard by anyone. This is like modern art in music form. The illusion of something clever and artful while offering no actual substance.

My ears!!!

Some of the tracks are just people talking. The other ones would make a pretty annoying arcade game soundtrack at best.

When this album started, I thought I was having problems with my Spotify. After I realized it wasn't a technical glitch and listened a few more minutes, I wished I had problems with my Spotify. I made it through the entire album. This was brutally bad. Just terrible. Won't re-listen or revisit. Negative rating. I was trying to come up with funny stuff to write, but decided to focus my attention on something and music close to my heart. Prince Rogers Nelson was born June 7th, 1958. I'm going to spend the week honoring my fellow Gemini brother by listening to him and his music through the end of the week. (Although I still listen to Prince quite often!) Open your heart, open your mind A train is leaving all day A wonderful trip through our time And laughter is all you'll pay. God bless you Prince and Rock in Peace, brother.

Fuck this.

1 I saw that this is supposed to be some kind of industrial, experimental album, so when my Spotify glitched and the first song was entirely silent, I thought that might be a part of it. Turns out, I was actually better off when the album was playing with no audio. Look, after The Residents, I just don’t have time for this shit. At least those guys tried to write music. There isn’t even an attempt at songwriting here. 1. Say it with me kids: “There’s nothing profound about making your music unlistenable.” Ok no I’m back with a final thought. After reading the Wikipedia article, the song United is apparently a re-recording. The original version was considered their best and most accessible tune, so in an attempt at being avant-garde, they sped it up to a runtime of 16 seconds for this album to make it entirely unlistenable. There’s a punk spirit in there somewhere I appreciate, but… yeah this album sucks.

Voin kuvitella kuinka aikaansa edellä tämä(kin) on ollut. Aika ei ole tainnut vieläkään tosin tulla.

Mitäs ..tua tässä oikeen kuunneltiin?

Not even my strongest urges to be contrarian helped me enjoy this one.

2/10. Wasn't as aggressively bad as the site rating made me think, but it was like a whole album of the talk-y parts of The Wall, so it just ended up being rather boring, and didn't really feel like listening to music?

Made my teeth itch. 1/10

That was just experimental noise. You couldn’t call it music. If possible I would give no stars but in order to vote 1*

Not good cycling music.

Sounds a bit too much like noise

This might serve as suitable background to some modern art exhibition, but as music to be listened to in its own rights? Nah

Not my thing

Why is this called music and who would purposely listen to it?

Industrial music without the music

nope

Wow… I love cryptic static with little to no substance that was produced so late into the 70’s experimental era that it begs the question ‘where tf were you guys a decade ago.’ Landmark only in its complete obscurity. “Only people in the biz will get it” - give me a break. Pass me another tab so maybe I’ll find something redemptive.

Omg. This has been the lowest moment on the list. Minus stars “captured conversations to thoroughly composed creations“ Who writes this waffle. Tone deaf

I am going to scream. When you leave the threshold of music so often like this, it feels frustrating to review it as such. Some okay Kraftwerky type songs that I did enjoy, but too many unforgivables. Sti better than John Zorn.

It's interesting, but that's gonna be a no from me.

Probably not the best album to listen to while having a ear infection.

Ooh, valley of the shadow is my favourite, you know the one where no one is playing any music and someone just left the recording equipment on for a few minutes while people sat around finishing off their bacon and eggs. Ooh I love that one. Give me strength. Actually with hindsight, it is one of the stronger tracks on the album. Hometime is similarly stupid. Ab/7A was ok. The rest just sounds like accidental recordings in haunted forests or photocopiers.

Listened to like one song almost gave me a headache

no

It's piss poor. Experimental...yes, a good album?....absolutely not.

I’ll ‘probably’ never listen to this again. I say ‘probably’ because there’s always an off-chance I’m kidnapped and my captors put this on repeat to drive me insane within 24 hours.

What the actual heck did I listen to? Not the whole album that’s for sure. It’s like jazz, the people most entertained by this album are surely the people who made it. Certainly not me.

I know that must have been cool at and groundbreaking int he 70's, but ow my ears. No thank you.

A collection of pocket dials, drones and tones.

Genuinely don't understand what this was about. If this was a movie or video game soundtrack it would've been completely fine, but its not, and that's the problem. Some of the tracks are interesting but I can't even see it as musical instrumentals. It's just sound. No fave track.

Noise.

its experimental and such but i dont call this music, some of it is literally recordings of people but poorly

experimental, unpleasant random noises

Music for sleep paralysis.

This is not music.

Really make u think.

A terrible effort trying to make music out of random noises, strident voices, and what I assume is the elevator music as you're going down to hell.

Wow. D.O.A. the Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle. Where do I start? I really wish the music was as impressive as the album name itself. I can imagine that the people that think that this is a revolutionary album are the very same people that go to "conceptual art exhibitions" and rave about how "the urinal centerpiece moved them". Let's be real here - this album is nothing but noise. It's not even carefully arranged noise that's been used to produce some sort of music or even a melody, it's just a hodgepodge of random sounds that seem to have been recorded by a mere accident. Somebody brought some sort of recording contraption to work, pressed record and then that was that. I'm sorry, but Throbbing Gristle's third and final report most definitely did not make my gristle throb. In fact, by the end of the album, the only realization I had was that this album, along with my gristle, could both have been pronounced D.O.A. as soon as the album started playing.

Fuck off.