Reviews (page 5 of 6)
Not streaming
What the?
Found it on YouTube. Just not for me.
Wtf
Not for me…
Weirdly interesting in places. The songs were mercifully short but there was a lot of them. The cabaret style and calling it Tank Battles conjured up visions of Nazis all grooving to this. Not a good look and I'd give 1 and half stars if I could
I simply do not care for it
Doesn't appear as an album to review on Spotify. Some of the songs from the first album are good. Voice is a bit contrived
Could not find the album, only the podcast
WTF did I just listen to? Seriously, go listen to this. Why was it on this list???? Why was it so long???? It wasn’t even on Spotify or Apple Music.
Pretty difficult listen at times and sounded like a really bad musical at other times. It's not really music that i enjoy, but i thought the band and instrumentation was really cool but the songs as a whole didn't do anything for me
Matige liedjes, best aardig gezongen. Vond het echt irritant
This was not for me. Sounded like a lady stumbling through songs that had all been cut from the musicals they were written for.
No
Me recordó canciones de ABBA pero también hubo otras que me hicieron sentir miedo, no se porque
An incohesive, atonal mess. The album consists mostly of short tracks that don’t go anywhere musically and never develop into anything engaging. The lyrics are dreadful, and the vocals are, at best, mediocre. There are a few brief of promise, but they’re not enough to merit a 2 star review.
Don't know how this album is on anybody's top albums list. I couldn't even finish it. But, I understand, everybody has different tastes.
did not exist on spotify :(
So, this album is a collection of songs written by German composer Hanns Eisler and sung by Krause. She recorded a version of the album in both English and German. The songs are meant to evoke the feeling of 1920s Germany, and they definitely do. It really feels like you're listening to a soundtrack from a movie or musical rather than an actual album. Kind of gives you a German military feel I guess. I'll listen to anything once, but I won't be listening to this again. Just too avant-garde for me. This was also the first time I couldn't just pull up an album on Spotify and listen to it. I had to go digging for it on YouTube.
Pretty disappointed from an album with the title "Tank Battles"
I mean, no. Far out though
????
no, no, no, no, no
I'm glad this exists, from the perspective that I want more weird art in this world. But I really struggled getting through this one.
Previously unknown. Not for me.
Not worth a star
Hard work
I had to go looking for this because it was not on Spotify. I should have taken that as a sign.
I’ve never seen the musical “Cabaret” other than snippets of the cast of “Schitt’s Creek” performing it in-universe and that seemed okay. But that was pretty much my only exposure to cabaret music before I started listening to albums on this list, and now I fucking hate cabaret music. I spent over forty-five years of my life having no opinion of cabaret music and now it confuses and angers me and I think it’s up there with the worst things the Germans have ever done. Are we supposed to pretend that we’re in a Weimar Republic club in Berlin and everyone is cynical and witty and smoking cigarettes and wearing bowler hats? Not sure about that last one. Anyway, this sucks.
Ale chujnia, nie wyobrażam sobie nikogo kto tego słucha nieironicznie
What the hell sure
A talented singer paying homage to a composer she clearly has great respect for. But as a listening experience this isn't great. It sounds like they've taken 1-2 min slices of songs from a dozen unrelated musicals. It doesn't feel cohesive and the songs are so short I barely had time to understand what was happening before we moved on to the next one. Not terrible but I didn't enjoy it at all.
I tried listening to it on YouTube but didn’t care for it at all.
Two 1s in three days - is this a new record?? This was painful.
I liked the music on the ads between tracks on YouTube better than this album.
I made it halfway. I get it.
Angry German later sings and talks over marching music. Occasionally takes a break and sings something pretty. There have been two types of albums I haven’t liked in this project. Ones I can’t vibe with thematically and ones I find unpleasant to listen to - this is the later.
Another album that's impossible to listen to... finally found that someone has all the songs on YouTube, but there's enough actually good music to listen to that the effort should not be invested in finding this record. This is not good.
Did not enjoy this.
I wonder if 1 full hour of German Cabaret Jazz is listed as a torture method somewhere.
Could not find album
Niet op spotify, gedeeltelijk via YouTube geluisterd maar was niet de moeite waard.
spotify wouldn’t let me listen
Bad.
yea no
German style, nothing very interresting in this album, and I was quit borred.
It’s like German wartime music. It’s like really terrible. It’s like really annoying. It’s like maybe one of the worst albums I have heard. It’s like I turned it off halfway through. 1/10
Couldn't listen
Very dramatic and theatrical stuff. Not my cup of anything, but I think this is somehow a meaningful album — I just don’t get it.
It feels weird to hate on this because it's so far out of my wheelhouse, but wow, this was a rough listen.
Weird girl German history album
I don't know what the guy that made this list was smoking, but he needs to share!
Hated the vocals Hated the instrumentals Hated the album Hated life listening to it
Chances are, if it's not available on streaming services in 2026, it's not historically important enough. Which is the primary measure of inclusion for albums on this list. To think that music critics were compiling a perfectly good list, consisting of the Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Madonna, Joni Mitchell, Queen... then some Berlinese Gen X-er (likely smoking crack and living with his parents) bumps his elbow on the keyboard and accidentally appends Tank Battles by Dagmar Krause to the final draft of 1001albums.docx. There's nothing good, and hardly anything interesting. Sure, orchestral instruments are used. But they're used in a drearily uninteresting fashion, not even trying to stand out or create anything musically revolutionary. The music itself is so, so unimpressive and uninspiring for the year 1988. Still, I want to make excuses for it, give it the benefit of the doubt. Maybe the music was actually recorded in the 50s and written in the mid-19th century. That would make sense, sort of. (The recording quality suggests as much.) But then we come to realise, again, the outrageous lack of 19th-century (or any-era) classical music. And anything by Beethoven or Brahms or Tchaikovsky would far surpass this weak operatic nonsense. And some of it is heinously difficult to listen to. Mother Beimleim makes up some of the worst 75 seconds of noise to ever be recorded. Speaking of which – this is *long*. Or at least it feels that way. The Wikipedia article doesn't give a total track length for the English version (and I'm not doing the math), but man, every time I thought I'd reached the end, another 1-2 minutes of bad vibrato and stupid, uninspired, old-timey European instrumentation makes itself known. (And sometimes, just when you think "god, at least this is only a minute long," it turns out it's actually 6 minutes.) 1/5 Key tracks: The Trenches
As a fan of the avant-garde, I was excited to sink my teeth into this one. Nonetheless, I am not going to pretend that I have this innate understanding of this record. It runs like a quick stage play with its short songs backed by dramatic compositions. The singing is laden with vibrato and longing, but the overall experience is so so. I respect the sentiment and uniqueness, but I can’t sit here and truly convince myself that this is anything above a 3/10 or 1/5.
Nah.
Could not listen
Waste of time!
DNF at song 3
Talented singer. Autistic German theater kid music. No thanks.
didnt finish. def not for me
Kind of torture.
This album is not on any streaming platforms. This album is also one of the lowest rated in this project. I wasn't sure if these two facts are related or not. This album has very strong "Hitler's favorite artist" vibes about it. I am not saying Dagmar Krause is a Nazi, merely saying if the Gestapo wanted to torture prisoners through painful audio sounds, then this would be the music used to do so. Interestingly, Hanns Eisler was disliked by the Nazi party for his music. We can all find commonality in this world, I guess. I am not intending to be harsh. There is a subset of the world that probably really enjoys this music. 9% of individuals gave Tank Battles a 4 or 5 rating, so I feel confident the subset of the world who enjoys this music is not a large subset. I can't determine what itch this album scratches. It's very theater kids and bombastic, which is fine, but I'm not sure I needed to hear this one. I did not care for this album.
I guess I understand the historical importance of these songs, and maybe there's even a sort of ironical reason for them to be played and heard right now, but I do not prefer this music and don't understand how this landed on a list of albums to hear before I die. Would give less than 1 if I could.
Nope, this was not something I needed in my life. Listened a little over half the album on youtube, but it was just too inconvenient and «too much» to complete.
p598. 1988. 1 star. The sound of a failed German off-Broadway musical, with a singer channelling their inner Marlene/Sally Bowles. Nein. Found it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbYmWrfNJpQ
No thank you
Not for me
I’m sure it’s very well done. But not for me
Found this one on YouTube and honestly not sure how this album even ended up on this list. First one I couldn’t even finish.
Not on spoofy
Interesting but I couldn't finish it.
Now that’s some interesting music. Very theatrical. Can’t decide if I like it, or not.
So this was a miserable listening experience. It took a lot of effort not to turn it off, and I was pretty abysmal through the whole thing. There was barely anything I could appreciate. Won’t be looking back at this album.
Found it on YouTube. Wish I hadn’t. Sounds like music used in a comedy or circus music because of the emphasis of horns.
Not my jam
Not for me
Nicht wirklich mein fall.
She sems to have a decent voice, but I understand nothing and it gets chronically repetitive. Not my bag.
Found a sample here if anyone is genuinely interested : https://youtu.be/Irmn9e2O-HQ?si=6ZwOAYFrFLqGvZKo failed to appreciate it.
I'm naturally predisposed to generosity towards albums that do something unique on this list, so take this as the damning indictment it is
I did manage to get through this one. That was challenging though. Not for me.
I didn't enjoy this very much, it sounded okay but the vibes weren't there, not what I look for in an album, not to mention it wasn't on streaming
Alternate title: Working Nein To Five Dramatic, theatrical singing over old German military marches? What’s next, rapping over some John Philip Sousa? My ears didn’t enjoy this one. But the audacity of this album is inspiring, go out there and create some bizarre, nuanced shit. “For the PlayStation 3 video game known as Tank Battles in some regions, see Battle Tanks.”
I paused for a couple of days as I didn't think I had the energy to figure this one out. Good voice, songs would be better in a musical.
Couldn't listen to it, so.......
COULDN'T LISTEN, NOT ON SPOTIFY
I had never heard of Dagmar Krause, and prior to listening to this album if asked I might have guessed that she was an East German gymnastics coach who hydrated her athletes with pigeon blood and won 200 gold medals between 1974 and 1987, when she was shot for treason for eating a Whopper Jr. (no pickles). Crazy that I would have been mostly right. Also, weirdly, today a woman came up to me in the subway and said, "I am Dagmar." I mean, I know her. But it was still kind of weird. Also, I hate this album. It's awful.
Could only find this on YouTube https://youtu.be/PkPvS85L998?si=EhYAku6mDeKdQS4Z Sounds like a soundtrack to a film, opera or even a comedy sketch in places. Quite like her vocal but not really my cup of tea.
Når folk ikke klarer å høre forskjell på avant garde og pastiche... Med unntak av noen elektriske instrumenter, kunne dette kommet ut i 1920. Det er grenser på hvor langt man kan nå med denne stilarten, og selv om det er spor av interessante elementer her og der, så ligger det for det meste et sted mellom kjedelig og irriterende.
Cabaret med forferdelig polert 80s sound. Bra det var korte låter, men synd det var så mange av dem.
Wow, what a weird album to be included. If you have me an afternoon I think I could get pretty close to naming 1001 other albums that should be on this list that aren’t. Also, I don’t pay for YouTube so getting an ad between every song is kind of a pain. That’s not Dagmar’s fault, but having 1:30 long songs all over this album is. If you can make it passed Mother Beimleim I salute you. DNF.
not on any streaming platforms
I did not enjoy this
Weird as shit Stravinsky arrangements/melodicism Bizarro world show tunes Not sure if I’m going to make it through this one It’s making me question my commitment to finishing listening through all of these albums or if there is a reasonable cutoff point of acceptance There ARE some very nice woodwind arrangements on this. Ultimately this is probably something I would listen to if it were presented as purely German instrumental classical music. Though that applies to most musicals/operas, take the vocals out and I like it 10x more Wow ripping fusion guitar lead randomly on lied von der belebenden Truly the instrumental passages are lovely for the most part. Some very nice woodwind and brass passages. The segments that feel more like traditional European ‘dance’ music are not for me. I love that stuff in the right cultural context but this is not it Dear god there’s a whole other side of the record Truly a torturous listen. What an experience this is turning out to be
"Oh, you think you know music? Well, I bet you never heard of Tank Battles by Dagmar Krause. You can't call yourself a music connoisseur without knowing this one."
the biggest eh
did-not-listen
basically unlistenable
Holy fuck this is beyond terrible. I’d rather be slowly run over by a tank than be subjected to this musical cabaret. Talented vocalist and musicians, but overall a hot steaming pile of dog shit. I can’t imagine why anyone would listen to this.
We'll never know if we can't listen!
What fresh hell is this!? There have had some odd choices on this list, but this one is in a category all to itself. Absolutely jarring from start to finish. I hated every minute.
I didn't understand a thing
I got halfway through the second song before I turned it off. No intention on revisiting.
Ugh why?
Nope
Found a couple songs on YouTube. Gross
Pretty sure in the very first song, she sang “The bricks have farted”... by song two I couldn’t listen to it any more. Lyrics are terrible and cringe, the singing is terrible… How does shit like this make the list?
Wasn't able to listen.
Garbage
Could not find this album
Lmfao. What the actual fuck. I could get behind this if it was intended to be avant-garde opera. I can dig some Schönberg. But this isn't that. They're brief little nuggets of moderately atonal German crap. And by the way, Ms. Krause's voice is nothing to shake a stick at. No wonder you can't find this on Spotify. Jesus.
Couldn’t find this one, so I listened to some of their other stuff. Wish I hadn’t bothered.
No idea what to say about this one..
This was a pain to find and it really wasn't worth the effort; truly awful. One star seems fair for clunky show tunes in broken English. Actually painful to listen to.
First one in 732 I could not finish. Having to go to YouTube and it just being awful was too much. WTF!
Yikes. I can see why this is one of the lowest rated albums here. I think personally its the second worst I've heard so far (after Kid Rock of course). One of the most unpleasant album listening experiences I've had in a while.
Oh hell no. Fuck this shit and whichever ass hat thought I needed to hear some weird cabaret style show tunes. I bailed after a song and a half. 🖕🏻🖕🏻0⭐️
This had me in The Trenches.
It's so good that it isn't on streaming...mmmm...strange...
Ikke tilgængeligt
Another album ruined by the singer. Takes herself too serious, German accent unbearable. The fact that it’s only on YouTube and I can’t read up on the backstory kills the last possibility to give it another chance. First album I stopped 10 minutes in because of my lack masochistic energy.
It's avant garde, I can appreciate it for what it is, but it sadly doesn't resonate
Not on Spotify but from the couple songs I listened to on YouTube I’m okay with that
I did not like this one
Pretentious. Not for me.
Oof. I don't get it at all. Not my thing!
etwas düster finde ich .. absolut nicht meins.
Theatrical cabaret.
Sounds like the soundtrack to a musical set in early 1900’s Germany. No thanks.
Did not like this one bit…was looking for some redeeming quality and there was none
Obligé de l’écouter sur un podcast c’est quoi cette merde ?
This album was almost fascinatingly bad, it really does sound like rejected songs that Lily von Schtupp was supposed to sing in Blazing Saddles, as another 1001 Albums Generator user pointed out. Maybe I just don't get it, but all I know is I listened to the first 10 minutes with what must've been a hell of a "What in god's name am I listening to?" look on my face before having to change it over to something else.
While listening to this album, I wish I wasn't. Truthfully it's not that bad, but a shocking pick for one of the 1001 best albums of all time.
I feel like I am watching a cold war era musical in the worst way possible. I am unsure of why this is the way it is.
Awkward English lyrics combined with borderline atonal music is not a pleasant listen, though it certainly stands out.
Mostly a waste of time and a waste of a spot on this list -- just too obscure, too theatrical and Brechtian or Zweigian (one's guessing here) to really suit this list. "The Perhaps Songs" is a plus title. At any rate, maybe some people need to hear this before they die (the composer's family most likely); one certainly does not. Listening just once, whilst still happily alive is more than enough.
.Extremely esoteric!
No thanks.
The fuck! This album, it says, is not on any streaming service and if you find it, let "them" know. The app has finally eaten itself and offered an album that potentially doesn't exist. Well done! Wankers. 1 star just to register my frustration at this app.
This sucks. 1/5
Something about this album is putting me in a worse mood, and I don't know what it is. It's just uncomfortable. And I gave it two listens. I think this is the first album I'm giving a one and can't tell you why I hate it.
Very creepy and strange.
Insufferable rubbish. Absolutely zero redeeming qualities.
Unfortunately I am going to join the many haters of this album. Not that it is entirely bad or pointless, but that I don't enjoy it. I would much rather listen to classical German music which this is based on. I understand that genre is influential but is this album? Maybe to Ute Lemper Punishing Kiss, but I also don't like that album. Pretty sure Nick Cave and Tom Waits and others were making music like this before, so I just don't get it. I did go down an interesting rabbit hole of classical German from this though. I'm interested, but not in this. Sorry but some albums have to get a 1 to make the 2s count for something. At least you made the book.
I swear some of the inclusions on this list are a social experiment, add some shite to the list and by the fact that it's listed here people will like it.
Cabaret, German, not really for me... Kind of enjoyed "The Perhaps Song" DNF
Heard a song and thought “Oh wow, this is pretty good!” and looked over and realized it was an ad break in the album 😐
Could. Not. Listen. This was terrible.
why the fuck is this shi on here
Scared the wife, scared the kid, scared the dog.
ne postoji...?
This is not the kind of jazz that woke muisc heads (including myslef) will beg you to listen to and will tell you is "life-changing". That designation goes to the greats like Davis, Coltrane, Mingus, and others. This is the type that you imagine would play in a tourture chamber on repeat for someone that commited war crimes against humanity as punishment. 1/10
Sounded bad in German. Sounded worse in English
Dreadful. Cant stand musicals. Or anything operatic.
Tanks but no tanks.
Not for me
J - 1/5 Best Track - None F - DNL
weird show tunes? no thanks
Don’t bother trying to locate this album. Listened to a few bits of the songs on YouTube. It's among the worst music I’ve ever heard.
Why??? I never heard about Dagmar Krause before and I would prefer remain in this ignorance. There are many much better singers of the genre... For example, the same year, Patricia Kaas issued her debute album "Mademoiselle chante...". Why isn´t she on the list? Or someone else?
Maybe I could rate this higher but how does a recording that is not available end up on a list of recordings I must listen to before I die? This "project" is nearly over for me I think...
I got no enjoyment out of this. All I could really get was the WW2 theme. Maybe if they were playing this in musical theater as part of a larger performance, but this with no context, songs ending abruptly, going from hard to understand English to another language, and it's too long. No thank you.
This is absolutely horrendous. Probably the worst album I've encountered on here so far (at ~#40). I would not watch this musical. 1/5 (0/5 if I could)
Ok, this is from left field, and that should be a good thing, but I have a limited tolerance for German theatre, even though I know it's an influence on guys like Zorn and Waits, whom I love. This however, can't get into the vocals, and have no mood to hear her plow through 26 very theatrical war time drama songs. three tunes was enough to render the verdict. I'm starting to think that the author of the 1001 albums book has taken his desire to be ecumenical to a sinful extreme
you know it's a bad album when you had enough after a couple of minutes... seems like most albums that aren't on spotify have one thing in common. they are all pretty bad. This is another one of those albums that sounds like some amateur scraped together money to make an album. Like an over acting aunt who think she is a misunderstood star of Broadway I really felt I get nothing more out of listening through the whole album. She got her point across pretty fast what the rest would sound like.
theatral boring deutsch
Not for me
vsf trem ruim do caralho
pior que eu curto alguns projetos da dagmar krause. mas, com todo respeito, eu PRECISO ouvir ISSO antes de morrer? eu creio que não. portanto 1 estrela.
As soon as it started I thought, “noooooo.” Then I grinded through it as I have so many times through this process.
This sounds like something Hitler might get off to. And while there are some nice brass-y arrangements, I could not get through it. NEXT.
It was not worth listening to this.
This is just too weird. But I heard it before I died, so there’s that.
Rubbish
Ugh. What? No. Ugh
There is a new leader for worst album I've gotten in this challenge... and possibly worst album I've ever listened to from start to finish. It was difficult to stop myself from puncturing my own ear drums.
Had to find it on YouTube. Probably better had it stayed hidden
Some things don’t need to be remade or adapted to another language. This is one of them. It’s the same reason I watch subs instead of dubs
I can appreciate the artistry involved in making something like today’s album, but it doesn’t make it any more pleasing to the ears. Unfortunately, this didn’t do much for me today. It certainly sounded complex in parts, but I couldn’t get past it sounding bizarrely musical-theatre, and it ended up with me losing attention and placing it elsewhere. It is well written, in the same way that quantum mechanics can be expressed in nicer ways than others - it still doesn’t really make me want to read it though.
Fiebertraum
Pretty bad listening experience from having to track this down on Youtube (with ads!) and then trying to figure out what was going on in general. I think I made it halfway through before I called it quits. Sorry, but this is a 1.
Once again hitting up the ol UTUBE for this one. Sick. I don't have a good feeling about this. Oh this is GERMAN german. Not my jam. That was tough to get through.
Could not listen
I've really tried to enjoy this album, but it has become grating for my ears. The versions of the songs aren't even decent, and I'm not a big fan of the songs to begin with. While I don't mind the style, the execution feels borderline kitschy for me. I listened to both the English and German versions, but it still didn't work. Overall, this album just isn't for me, and I’m glad I won't have to listen to it again.
I don't know what else I expected after choosing to listen to over an hour of German war folk.
Its not on streaming and its not good. Sure its "in the book" but perhaps we could burn that page and pretend it never happened.
I appreciate the album, but can’t say I really enjoyed listening to it. Wouldn’t return except in some very unique circumstances.
Unavailable in Spotify
NO!
This sounds like a musical OST gone rogue, escaping its physical performance and escaped into another universe. With all that said, I didn’t like it.
WTF
Honestly, putting an album like this on a list of 1,000 albums you must hear, is it joke. I don't know what the author of the book was thinking when he put some of his picks in this book, but this is not it. It's not good, and it's not noteworthy. It's fine if you like it, but why should it be included on a list like this? I mean, hell, you can't even find it on streaming services. What does that tell you? It's forgotten for a reason. Good riddance.
had to listen on YouTube, with commercials popping in between every third song...also had not enough time this Saturday to read original lyrics and practice my German, so it's a 1/5.
damn this is some hot garbage jk i appreciate what it is but I'm definitely not understanding it fully, just not for me i think. I would prefer to hear the original compositions. I think because I enjoyed it much less than the only album I've given 2 stars so far, I gotta put it at 1 star. I definitely dont feel like this was an albim I needed to hear before I die. Points for being something I never would have listened to otherwise though.
I’m sure that this type of music has its place among aficionados of the obscure. However, this obscure album probably never should have been included in the 1001 Albums book. I feel like I’ve just spent time in an East German prison.
Available on YouTube. Satirical musical theatre. Some amusing lyrics sung in a stereotypical deep German female voice which adds to the comedy. Not the kind of thing I'd choose to listen to.
Not for me
Pros: I laughed out loud within 10 seconds. Cons: Once you get over giggling at how stupid this album is, you realise you've still got 58 minutes of this dreadful person singing legitimately insane songs.
Aaack
Dramatic soundtrack-like music about economy, struggle, and nationality sung by a mediocre German lady. This is a weird one. It might be okay paired with movie scenes but as a standalone is not enjoyable. Ballade von der belebenden Wirkung des Geldes is pretty at least. Und Endlich Stibt is also pretty good. This album was a bit over an hour of the same thing over and over, dragging. I couldn't wait for it to end.
Vomit. German showtimes sung by a quavering imitation of better singers.
I only listened to a bit of it but it’s not for me.
The album name and artist sounded promising but WOW was I in for a twist. This felt like a blind person at a really hokey German play (I hate theater, I would have rather been deaf). Parts of it sounded like bad polka, most of it was really annoying, I just wanted it to end. "Mother Beimleim" successfully freaked me out, it was like the witch from Hansel & Gretel got drunk. I also hated the one where she sang about "Too Much Coffee" and "Sackslingers." Nothing redeemed this, I don't know why it's on the list. Please don't even explain it to me, sling this sack right off a bridge. 0.60
Another odd one from the list. Sounds like a German stage play from post WWI and the rise of Hitler. Not something I would ever intentionally seek out so I thank the list for providing me the obscurity. I will not be playing this again or delving further into other works however...0.78.
What did I just listen to? I thought this might be a joke or an incorrect posting on YouTube when I first turned Tank Battles on. Nope. It was in fact nearly an hour of a German woman singing/speaking translated lullabies or fight songs or tall tales from post-war battles or something? There were occasional chuckles at some of the ridiculousness of the whole thing but overall this was rough to get through. I feel I had no reason I had to hear this before I died but maybe there is some other external reason the editors felt this belonged on the list. 1.03 stars
WTF did i just listen to. not my thing at all.
This is like the closest to the Shaggs I've ever heard from a "real" musician. 1/10
Can't find
Like a shitty, badly sung musical. Why is this here?
You have to be a truly sick, twisted human being to give this album a 5. 2/10
Das ist langweilig.
This is so far outside my wheelhouse I don't know where to start. I gave it a chance, but it does nothing for me. Good for you if you enjoy it, I just can't fathom how it made the list
Not available on Spotify - what a relief! I loathe avant garde.
This was weird and not in a way I enjoyed.
Another one that can't be found on Spotify. The cover gave me a bit of Ute Lemper vibes, so was a bit sceptical coming in. This hit all the wrong spots for me unfortunately. A german composer (Hanns Eisler) writing an album about tank battles in the late 80s, it just feels so... dated and prehistoric? Granted, it was during the cold war, but still... felt like something that may have been fresh during the 30s, but late 80s? Come on. Not my thing at all, stopped half-way through.
This sounded like something from a musical. A disjointed collections of songs that were like off-brand Sondheim, Cabaret or the three penny opera. Maybe I would have like it more if there was some sort of red thread running through but it really just felt like a disjointed mess. The singer is clearly talented and the orchestra too but I just found it annoying. I was thinking it wasn't to bad after I thought I finished only to come to the dreaded realisation that there was another half to go. That amount off disinterest of having to listen more to it firmly places it in the one star category,
Take Cabaret but make it oppressing as fuck. 1* Sometimes you wish you could time travel to see what life was like (in this case to 1920s Germany), but this wasn't it. Did I need to listen to it before dying? No, but it is definitely unique.
Found half of this on YouTube. Difficult to find, in German and it’s theatrical- holy trinity of shite
Just horrible
could not listen to it
Not my thing
I've been behind on albums this week, and the only good thing about this one was I didn't have to listen to all of it because it's pure shit.
I already hate this
I'm completely baffled by why this album is on here. There are so many albums that could have been on here but this got on? Why? It isn't good and has no impact on anything. Just a bunch of old-timey German songs. Not even interesting ones....
This was hard to track down, and when I did I am not even sure it was the right album or playlist. Also, this was bonkers. I'll almost consider it a day off from the list. No idea why it's there to begin with.
It wasn’t worth the effort to find somewhere other a streaming platform….
Not on Spotify
Nope. Absolutely not my tempo.
Critics can sincerely go fuck themselves
Nice to learn about Eisler, but seriously what the fuck is this?
I found it here. https://youtu.be/JbYmWrfNJpQ?si=OZ_S-_B36uE4XGlW It’s … not good. Not good. I’m not going to criticise the lyrics. Idiom is a thing that renders a lot of translated lyrics problematic. The arrangements and performance though. Hectoring tuneless yelling over arrangements that seem more in place in a 1980s Italian comedy. Unpleasant and inessential. 0.5. Yeesh.
#373. This wasn't on Spotify, so I had to go find it on YouTube, which is terrible because I had YouTube and all their incessant ads. Anyway I skimmed through a bit on the first few songs, and then just noped on out of there. I don't know what this is, but you can miss me with that shit. 1/5: nah, dog
Niet mijn ding, misschien voor meer klassieke muziek liefhebbers
Nope.
Hä?
i couldn’t even finish it </3
Utter pish
Not for me.This was one that I just needed to get through to get ticked off the list
like weird and bizzare music.. but this. nope!
Not for me. The accent just makes it too goofy. The German version is better. Too many tiny songs. Nothing is on long enough to be anything, but even being short wasn't great
Somewhere, in a small cobwebbed theatre in Scotland two people with thick glasses are watching this one woman musical. In my mind there would be long costume changes where her microphone was left on and you could hear her cussing and doing herself up. Works better as an A Level history assignment than an album.
What is this? Why is it on this list?
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A hangover of an album. Barbed wire. Headaches. Migraine aura. Apart from that, great!
80s German music hall is a narrow genre but in the spirit of generator listening I was happy to explore it for the first time. In for a penny, in for a Deutsche Mark. Not on Spotify so I went hunting and found every track on YouTube. It was an interesting listening experience. YouTube adverts between tracks would usually be annoying but here they were light relief and the most enjoyable aspect of the overall listening experience. Thankfully some of the songs were shorter than the ads! 1001 is an odd number for the books and the generator. If they choose to round down this is a strong contender for exclusion :)
I’ve never liked musicals.. and this feels like musical music. Almost sounds like a parallel universe where Lady Gaga travelled backward in time, lost her vocal skills, and became German - which if you hadn’t guessed, doesn’t sound great. I also highly recommend looking for the 1001 albums related comments below the youtube upload - well worth the read 😆
I’m actually glad this isn’t on Spotify. Any barrier preventing me from listening to this again is a good thing.
Not available on streaming but from what I could find, it wasn’t a very cohesive album.
Better than Tank Girl I suppose
What the actual fuck was this. Wasting my time. Why was this on the list. Furious
Oh no. This was nonsense. Sounded like the music from a very mediocre musical. Definitely not a banger.
Not my particular brand of schnitzel
Oh sweet Jesus its like being trapped in the theatre room with the least talented musical performer ever.
Just not really sure what to make of this one. It’s theatrical and dramatic. Not for me, but Who is it for? There’s plenty of vocal, musical, and compositional talent. I just have no desire to listen to it. Lied von der Deutschen Mutter caught my attention though.
I'm nauseous after listening to that shmaltzy shit.
More like a soundtrack to a musical than an album. -1 star for not being on Spotify.
Strange German Album
There are any number of musical cast recordings to which I would rather be listening, The Threepenny Opera for example. One seedy jazz hand.
This feels like the soundtrack to a very boring musical
What the actual fuck is this shit? This has to be the single worst album inclusion on any iteration of this list, I cannot believe that anyone could consider this to be “essential”. This record is indulgent, cloying, self-satisfied, frivolous, ENDLESS, and utterly impenetrable. With all the wacky instruments employed on this album, would it have killed her to at least hire a drummer? Looking at this site’s lowest rated albums, I’ve long since laughed off those who can’t get into albums by Lightning Bolt, Throbbing Gristle, Einstürzende Neubauten, etc. but THIS really should be the lowest rated album. When Frank Zappa was singing about “Dagmar, without a doubt the ugliest son of a bitch I’ve ever seen in my life” in his song “Broken Hearts Are For Assholes”, I have to wonder if he was referring to the music of Dagmar Krause. Fuck this.
Could not access the album.
Liquid ass
Like a soundtrack from a bad Mel Brooks war movie.
Strange
Listened Before? N Obscure and unavailable. Eye roll. Added to Library? Can't Songs added to playlist: Cant.
Le classement en Jazz m'étonne beaucoup ... Je ne suis pas allé au bout (aucun intérêt pour moi).
Not on Apple Music, but the full album is available on YouTube. One of the few albums I've really disliked since starting this. Sorry Dagmar, I'm sure it appeals to some folks.
This is the first album I've bailed on without finishing. Just hated listening to it. The fact it wasn't even available on Deezer and I had to use YouTube to find it is telling. Would rate zero stars if that was an option
In a nutshell: melodramatic Avant-garde albums are not my thing. I don't mind cabaret. This felt like a loose concept album, one that would have worked much better on stage, not in a studio. It wouldn't surprise me if Björk and Dresden Dolls were inspired by Krause. Overall: 2/10
This was a tough one to review…
Ya so
No idea why this album is on here
Why on earth is this here!? Awful.
I wanted to be able to give it two stars but just couldn't.
WTF?!?
Listened to a couple song on YouTube, definitely not for me. Weird intersection with post war classical music.
Unable to listen.
Al principio me hacía gracia. Pero luego la gracia está en que, por fin, se terminó.
Wow so bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irmn9e2O-HQ&list=PLDIxWXRU4UDqrRm_pTjpJSWXvjEzKg9U1 Hanns Eisler songs. English text. German accent
very much not my thing i'm afraid
Can’t listen can’t give more than 1 star
Blah. Sorry - Dagmar seems to be a real talent, but I can't get into this.
I'm not really sure if I have listened to the right album, but somehow Dagmar Krause and Hanns Eisler made me hate tanks. The music feels very experimental and innovative, but it went completely off the scale. Dagmar sings okayish, but that doesn't even matter, when the songs are incomprehensible for most of the time. I don't know what is this album doing on the list honestly. Waste of time.
Al principio me hacía gracia. Pero luego la gracia está en que, por fin, se terminó.
Couldn't stream this one.
Here it is…. My first 0/5! Really didn’t enjoy listening to this, so that’s a 1/5. Adding in the -1 for not being on Spotify, that’s a 0/5 folks. That being said, it was a unique album. The fact that it was recorded in English and in German by the singer is wild. It’s just so far removed from my style of music that I could barely stand it.
Nothing like a dog piss album to ruin your Friday. WTF was that Mother song, wtf! Her voice was unique - You Have To Pay had a troll instrumental that i liked lol
The singer's voice gives me Nico vibes. This music is really wacky. Like I feel weird listening to it. They're almost showtunes but weirder. I don't think I can finish this. She's obviously a great singer but the music is wild.
Can’t find it.
Horrid
Love that the note even says you can't find this one streaming. Glad to get a day off.
This is a big moment for me. I've had a handful of one-star albums across this journey, even some that I'd give a 1 out of 10. But not until today have I heard an album on this list without even one redeeming track, not a single song worth saving. This one's not on Apple Music anyway, and I will NOT be going out of my way to download any of this. What the hell are we doing here??? This is an album from the '80s, a German singer doing showtune renditions of old German war-time folk songs. That description reads like the worst idea for an album Tom Waits could ever have. Yeah of course, I recognize the talent and effort that goes into this and its value as a preservation of old music. But good lord, this is a nightmare to me. Listed as "cabaret" on wikipedia, remind me to avoid that genre tag like the plague. Just a culmination of things that I can't stand here. I'm all for variety on this list, and just this week we got another German album with Kollaps, but that was a lot less painful than this. Get this out of my face and out of my ears. Favorite tracks: Album art: Kind of a cool design, just Ms. Krause's face obscured by shadow, the framing and splashes of red are nice. 0.5/5
u gotta be kidding me
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Interesting concept, but it drags for too long. Minus one star for not being available on Spotify.
Not on Spotify
One of the worst we’ve heard so far
Absolutely horrible