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Really really unnecessary. 1 swtar
Dagmar has a very unique voice, and the instrumental orchestration was quite good in many spots...but I have no idea why this is on this list. I'm not anti-composer music either, but this doesn't strike me as an album that I must hear before I die. I was just assigned a Bjork album the other day (Vulnicura), and this is not as bad as that, but it's not far behind for me. Only one favorite track because there was some great guitar work on it: The Song of the Invigorating Impact of Cash.
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How ? This is awful!
This one required earplugs
This was a cruel endurance test.
It's like a soundtrack to a musical I don't want to see. Very strange.
This was terrible. I couldn't figure out the point the entire time I was listening. I didn't like the music, I didn't particularly care for her voice, and I thought the translations seemed to be clunky. I even tried a few of the songs in German to see if they were better, and I didn't think they were. Just not for me at any level.
Half a star for the diversity it represents. Another half a star because it's aptly named. It's the best I can do.
just make this into a play tbh
Dogshit
Mother's Hands //
Really??
Bizarre
What a weird, interesting record. Definitely not something I particularly enjioy. But I guess there's a group of folk who can dig it. Standout tracks: none, really.. 3 out of 10
It was ok until she started singing. Yikes! One star
I heard enough in the first minute to know this ain't for me. Not gonna waste my time with the rest.
Is this what the sound of music would’ve been like if the Von trapps got caught by the nazis. This was a weird album. All very short story like songs. Not sure why this album is on this list if no streaming option wants it. 2.3/10
That was..... something. 1.26
Too weird
You know what you are getting right form the start - performance art, not music. It's aimed at a certain type of person to nod along knowingly and point out the strands of the metaphors, how the music brings out the timbre of the artists mood. That sort of rubbish. Basically it's for people that hate it to pretend they love it to other people who also hate it and are pretending they love it so they all seem "cultured" and smart in loving something they know everyone hates. Well done.
Un très joli coup de Robert qui a décidé de nous générer l'album de sa correspondante allemande que personne ne connaît.
Did not finish
260ish albums in and I am growing weary of this nonsense
painful
Pretty much every effort has been made for me to not listen to this...therefore I won't
1/5
Hell to the no. Maybe a bad musical??
Couldn’t listen. Not in Apple Music.
Did not listen. Wasn't on Spotify. Don't think you should be classified as MUST LISTEN if you're not even on any popular streaming service🙄👎 0⭐
To quote Dagmar, this is an unpleasant stain on the wall. This is not good. It’s not good.
Gave up after 20mins... life's too short to listen to shite like this
Tank Battles var ikke på min streamingtjeneste, men hørte et par andre numre af Dagmar. Enkelte var ok - men jeg kan bedre lide soundtracket til Cabaret...
If this record has some key significance, I'm missing it.
Wahrscheinlich damals artsy und cool aber nix was ich mir jetzt noch anhören kann.
it's like ... part musical ... part ... what you get if you tell germans to make a david bowie album? Not feeling it, 1.3.
This was not really great. Sometimes I wonder if we're being tested by some AI to see if we're going to just listen to whatever they decide to give us and say is good. I'm looking at you Everything but The Girl.
An artistic statement does not necessarily good music make. Need to cleanse my ears after this one.
01) The Song of the Whitewash - 4,0 02) (I Read About) Tank Battles - 3,0 03) You Have to Pay - 3,0 04) Chanson Allemande - 5,0 05) The Ballad of the Sackslingers - 3,0 06) Mother Beimlein - 1,0 07) The Perhaps Song - 4,0 08) Lied von der Belebeden Wirkung des Geldes - 5,0 09) Mankind - 2,0 10) Bettelied - 3,0 11) Song of a German Mother - 4,0 12) Change the World – It Needs It - 2,0 13) Bankenlied (Banking Song) - 5,0 14) Legende von der Entstehung des Buches Taoteking - 2,0 15) Balad of (Bourgoise) Welfare - 2,0 16) Mother's Hands - 2,0 17) Berlin 1919 - 2,0 18) And I Shall Never See Again - 2,0 19) Genevieve: Ostern ist Ein Ball sur Seine - 5,0 20) The Wise Woman and the Soldier - 4,0 21) Failure in Loving - 2,0 22) Und Endlich Stirbt - 3,0 23) The Rat Men – Nightmare - 2,0 24) The Homecoming - 2,0 25) The Trenches - 2,0 26) To a Little Radio - 3,0 TOTAL: 2,96 (30/100) And here's another album I don't know why I had to hear before my death. Maybe because it's boring to death. I was listening on You Tube and ad breaks were the best moments...
I found this one a hard listen mostly because I just couldn't follow the logic of it and also listening through Youtube is annoying AF. It felt very 'out-there' in terms of mixed styles and instruments - which isn't necessarily a bad thing? Kind of show tunes mixed with jazz and orchestral and operatic singing - lots of emotion - and a bit painful (both in terms of the subject matter and in making my ears bleed) I get the point of it - but to me its more art performance than music and Das ist nicht mein Fall.
Playlist on YouTube https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDIxWXRU4UDqrRm_pTjpJSWXvjEzKg9U1&si=0EPiyfZF5j4cm923
wont let me click on the album
Ok, deze battle verlies ik al na een nummer of 5. En er waren er nog 20 te gaan ofzo!
This recording is not available on Spotify
NOPE
this is what they should have played during the torture scenes in a clockwork orange
No
I believe ‘WTF’ summarises my review of this nicely.
Why??
Completely unnecessary
Spotify only lists two albums by Dagmar Krause, and this album isn't one of them. Wikipedia lists the genre as cabaret, jazz, avant-garde, so I doubt if I would I have liked this album anyway.
What the actual hell. It took forever to track this one down and, once I did, it became clear why it's not available anywhere. It's TERRIBLE. I wouldn't want this out in the world either! What the hell would possess the author to include this in the list?!
I did NOT like this at all.
Gear: Aür Audio Aurora Mix: 🤷♂️ Musik: 💩 Wertung: ⛽/5
An interesting album to be made aware of, but ultimately a lot too Avant Garde for my taste
Has been removed from Spotify.
Not available on Spotify. Found something on youtube, but only a couple of singles. Maybe if I understood German better this might have resonated. But unfortunately didn't.
Not available on Spotify
Unlistenable
1/5 wtf
I dont get this list. If it is the greatest 1001 albums, surely every album I own will be on it if this is on the list. If it is just 'Hey, listen to how weird this is' I might not be able to listen to all of them. I couldn't listen to this all the way through (on YouTube).
Una mena de cabaret mig en alemany mig en anglés basat en obres de Brecht? OK, molt culte tot... però què fa això a la llista de 1001 discos que hem d'escoltar abans de morir, exactament? És pel fet d'haver-se editat en vinil/cd?
Not a fan.
Noooooope
Unavailable on Spotify
Not my taste.
What the fuck is this
Quite simply, this is an extremely unpleasant album that proves that bizarre is not always noteworthy.
Sunday Funday this is not. Listening to this album is on par with being forced to spend a long weekend with white people grandparents and their butler on the upper west side, with a 'special outing' to see Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg opera. Get me outta here...
So bad it needs a replacement. Keeping it Kraussy, substitute Allison Krauss and Union Station. Weird German stuff is over represented, while bluegrass is underrepresented. In the 90s and early 00s, no one did it better than Alison Krauss and Union Station.
As the first song says "It's not good, It's not good!"
It doesn’t seem like this album can be worse than Napalm Death’s Scum from yesterday, but I liked more of ND than this. I hated ND’s bad parts much more, but this album has far less to like than ND’s killer guitar riffs. Therefore, this album dwells in the cellar with ND.
Was so bad. Couldn’t finish more than 2 songs
this was not it
Escutei algumas músicas no youtube, mas não foi possível entender a ideia do cabaret alemão.
isn’t in spotify
spotify link says "album missing"
As musical I would listen for enjoyment...straight 1/5 and absolutely terrible. As a historic artifact that offers an interesting view into the mindset of a Soviet republic I found it fascinating.
Not “didn’t listen,” couldn’t.
so weird and not my thing. liked the sax and other wide variety of instrument but that's about it. 1 star. Listened to "(reissue)" version on Youtube, split across 3 uploaded videos. ~1h 20m (extra 10 songs). I'm a glutton for punishment to extend this.
wow.
Very odd. I feared an oom-pah band breaking out at any moment. It's unlistenable.
This is weird as fuck. Its not on anything, as in you can't stream it from apple music or Spotify, there's even a disclaimer saying so, I found I think all of it on YouTube. It's mostly in German but its like soilder marching tunes and then slightly off lounge jazz then some women deep throating the mice its all a bit much for 6am
Got given this album in 2023, listening to it 2nd Jan 2025. This may be a lesson that you can avoid things but the worst will still come cause this was terrible. The woman has an orchestral voice but I think just applied in one of the worst possible ways. So much more potential that hasn't been reached here, the instrumental backing is unremarkable I think and doesn't accompany the voice too well. 1.5
This was pretty much opera. Not my thing.
This is the worst thing I've ever heard. I would rather take 1001 fiery shits back to back than relive those 12 seconds of my life that I had this album playing through the speakers.
A sort of German folk opera about war, sung mostly in English. The tension between the English words and the Germanic music and vocal accent somehow grates and sounds unpleasant. This may have been a deliberate artistic decision to create an uncomfortable listening experience to reflect the horrors of the subject matter. However, it makes the record so unpleasant that it is difficult to imagine anyone ever listening to it. Rating: 1.5/5 Playlist track: The Song Of The Whitewash Date listened: 25/09/23
Unavailable on Spotify Went to YouTube Couldn’t get past the first song
Yeah....Nah! Life's too short to listen to that.
Mercifully, it wasn't long. Because I really didn't like this. Fake opera is what I would call it and I don't like real opera. I didn't need to hear this and I hope I never hear this again.
Shit was weird and not in a good way.
It's no secret that this album is fucking impossible to find anywhere. It's not even simply unavailable like other albums ("Ys" by Joanna Newsom or Neil Young's entire catalogue), there's literally no proof of this album's existence on any streaming service. How does that even happen? Sure as hell wouldn't happen if this were actually good. I sure listened to something. Found a weird Youtube playlist that was missing 14 of the 26 songs. Eh, I guess it was enough to form an opinion. Strange German circus music about war being bad. Truly a thinking man's album. There's some picks on this list that can only be explained by my theory that Robert Dimery consults a Magic 8-Ball. This is one of them. I can't even wrap my head around how this would be on anyone's "most essential albums of all time" list. 1/5 for shitty music and 1/5 for ruining my Spotify playlist where I put the best song from every album on this list. I cast the Curse of Ra upon thee, Dagmar Krause. 𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉
Gorgeous voice but not for me personally.
yikes
I guess I could try translating the lyrics, but I dont think it would make it better 1
This seems good on paper but just wasn’t for me. Gave up and moved on
Nope.
It sounds like it should be the soundtrack to an accordion-oriented play. It isn't particularly challenging sonically (single voice over an orchestral arrangement), it just isn't something that is particularly fun or enjoyable to listen to. Quite tiring.
Found a (likely incomplete) playlist on YouTube. Given what I heard, I don't think I need to hear the rest. I think I get what she was going for, but it's not my thing.
Tedious drone, just awful
Wtf is this?!
Just completely baffling. Not sure exactly why it's on this list at all; it's not really all that groundbreaking or well performed. I can't speak a second language, let along sing one, but her strong German accent was so distracting that I had a hard time even understanding what she was singing. I really don't want to give it 1 star as it's not nearly as bad as some albums on this list (I'm 1,053 in so far...there's more than 1,001 FYI), but I've given much better albums 2 stars, so I have no choice. 1.5/5