Yank Crime

Yank Crime sounds as if someone put an At The Drive In album and an Unwound album in a blender. That is good of course, but got mixed feelings for this album. Always liked it more than Rocket from the Crypt (and am surprised both RftC and DlJ are both in 1001) but it took multiple listens to get into again, and in the end it is just too exhaustive and inconsistent for me to fully appreciate it.

Musically I like this, it's just very intense and at some point the shouting gets on the nerves.

It wasn’t completely my thing, but appreciate their significance for the genre.

Got autoplayed more guitars and shouting once it finished so I didn't actually know when the album ended

Punky

Interesting post punk similar to at the drive in

Þetta eru ágætis læti.

sevmediğim bi tür olsa da gayet güzel.

Liked it, Here Come the Rome Plows was the highlight

A good solid record with enough melody and good songs to complement the driving hardcore sound from Drive Like Jehu. Not for all tastes, but I would have been all over this during the 90's when this was released and even now it's still very listenable. A bit long, but then again they only released two albums, so we should happy with what they put out.

I really dont know what to think of this. There are some good sections and some horrible parts.

First half of the album done, and it's really weird, but I'm pretty sure I love it?! It's definitely not perfect, but man it does well to bridge the gap between punk and grunge. Some of the grooves the instrumentalists get into together are truly magical. This is one I'm really glad I discovered. It falls off quite a bit in the 2nd half sadly. Still pretty good, but do not see myself rushing back to this album at any point. Favorite track: Super Unison (minus the first 30 seconds)

Interesting. Didn't quite grab me on first listen. A little too noisy for my taste, but it's not random, there's something special going on here. I'll settle with a 3 star for now. Luau is definitely a memorable track.

You only need one album by Drive Like Jehu, and this is it. Then, you've pretty much got everything, because - just as it did 30 years ago (give or take) - it a;; becomes fairly predictable. Good, but predictable.

This is pretty sick. I can see why this was so influential in the hardcore scene. A really cohesive sound that just works. Super raw but also understandable, even for someone who doesn't listen to much hardcore. Not an everyday listen for me, but it was fun and I would definitely see them live. 3/5

3.5

Knowing nothing about Drive Like Jehu, my guess as to what the music would be like based on the cover was pretty close. Overall I liked listening to Yank Crime. "New Intro" was the track I liked the most. That track and some of the longer tracks (7+ minutes) reminded me of some of the progressive metal that began after the 80s. I can't say I'm a new fan. By the time I got to "Sinew", the last (and my least favorite) track, I was ready for a break. There was too much hoarse screaming on this album for me to want to come back, even if that level of screaming wasn't on all of the tracks.

leuke riffs maar nee, die kuttuut was zeer ambetant

At first I didn’t think I would get on with this at all but around a third of the way in I found it was becoming infectious. I don’t know if I’d re-listen but glad to have had my horizons broadened by this one.

Early emo hell yeah! But unfortunately not v headbangable

Not bad but a little longer than necessary at times. Reminds me of Local H

Pioneers of post hardcore and emocore, this album apparently gained retrospective appreciation long after the band had split up. Heavy and earnest, but enjoyable. Rating: 3.5/5 Playlist track: Golden Brown Date listened: 18/05/23

a bit angry, a bit headachy, but good if the mood arises

While I can see a lot of merit in this album, oh lordy is it fatiguing. It could do with being 15 minutes shorter.

довольно классный панк-рок если бы альбом длился не 70 минут, а 45, то можно смело было бы поставить 4+ но как-то к концу альбому все стало ощущаться очень монотонным и одинаковым альбом крепкий

Абсолютно поддерживаю комментарий Егора по поводу длительности. Опять же, будь я в клубе на лайве этой группы, мне было бы прикольно подольше поколбаситься подольше. Но затянуто. Панки рвут струны гитар, хорошо так нагибают. Причём это не просто необдуманная долбёжка. Напротив: чуваки играются с размерами, панк вальс хороший получился в Luau. А в New Math вообще что-то сложное происходит с размерами. Короче интересно слушать. Интересно, но тяжело, если не фанат. Чёт в общем никак я не подружусь с такой музыкой (диссонансы, скрим мимо нот), и я её всё ещё слушаю больше как "ну надо послушать, альбом ведь в списке".

Not for me

A bit of a shame that only two albums were released by these guys. This is the type of album that you just randomly stumble across and are very glad to have found. Peak underground punk that exemplifies the alternative music scene of the '80s and '90s. In other words, this is the obscure band that your own favorite bands listened to as kids, which then inspired them to form their own groups and make music themselves. Standout track is Super Unison.

So a pretty cool album but as far as punk goes it’s pretty average. I really like the dark tones. The piercing sounds are a unique element that I could maybe dig live but in my car it was painful. Maybe I’m just a yuppie tho. There was a bridge in hand over fist that sounded kinda like a (I think) foo fighters song. That track is a cool departure from the albums sound. Id love to mosh to bullet train to vegas

Quite liked about half of this? Solid 3.5 (rounded down as per protocol), potential to go up. Could come back to this one.

I was really not in the mood for this when it started. I felt a 1 star coming on. But it grew on me and earned itself a 3. Well done chaps.

okay harcore sound.

More into this for the math rock parts than the emo.

solid, influential

Mediocre at best

This was pretty good, sounded like a ripoff of another and I can’t think of now

A weird one for sure. At times I really liked this album, other times meh. It definitely dragged a bit for me. Saved tracks: Do You Compute, New Math, Sinews (Original Version)

This wasn't bad. A little noisy. Some of the longer tracks went on a little too long, but the shorter ones were fun little bursts of energy. The math-rocky elements were fun to hear.

This would be a 3.5 for me, but it is mostly one-note sonically. There are moments that really grabbed me, and it was mostly when the band slowed down, or quieted down from the mostly loud dynamic.

Did I like it? Yes. Will I ever listen to it again? Probably not.

You’ll love it if you like mathy and technical rock, but it’s a pretty decent listen even if you don’t.

I liked the music but not the singing so much.

This was a surprisingly great album! I have not heard of these guys, and though I don't spend my time fully engulfed in the punk world, I have a pretty good grasp on the variety of name brand punk bands. So I came into this one clean slate, and really enjoyed it. It's got that Cali punk sound, like Dead Kennedys and a little like Snot, and overall a great mix of guitars and perfect vocals for the style. Crazy they only had one major label album before splitting up. Almost pulled a 4 star rating, but it's challenging when compared to so many other great albums, even when limiting to the punk genre. I'd toss em a 3.8 if I could.

Yet another band I have not come across before. Instinctively like it. Great driving beat on most tracks leavened with stuff like 'New Intro'.

I found this record compelling. Never heard of the band before. I loved the pace/speed of the music. The lyrics were irrelevant but the singer’s voice was as important as the instruments. The band rushed headlong & took you with them. I particularly enjoyed the 4 lengthy trax, on which the band really stretches out. A wonderful surprise.

The literal sound of a mental breakdown…meh

Hard sound but too long.

Quite post-hardcore. Cool at some parts but the track lengths just bogged it down. 6/10

new to me, not bad

Nirvana-esque, especially the unintelligible vocals. Pretty guitar focused which I liked though.

Noise.

For noise rock, this is pretty great. A few tracks went on a smidge to long, but somehow they still held it all together. How did I miss this in 1994? I was probably still listening to Dirty.

I'm happy that this kind of astringent, smash-mouth music exists in the world. Which isn't to say I like it much - whilst I can admire the animating spirit and willingness to play with song structure, I can't say Yank Crime ever reached me at an emotional level. That said, 'Luau' is a might piece of music, and I like a bit of spit and agitation now and then. In no hurry to listen again, however.

Overall, it was a fine album. I did not care for the screaming though. I really liked the guitar tones and did enjoy a few songs on this album. Overall, a decent album, just not really my thing. I'd like it a lot more if the songs were sung instead of screamed.

Reading the reviews for this, I was expecting worse but it wasn't that bad. Nothing super special, but the reviews make it seem a lot worse than it is. There are much, much worse versions of this type of music. Saying that, it doesn't do anything for me. 2.5/5

Look I'm not qualified to rate this. In fact I dreaded listening to it. But, piled high of caffeine, I went all in. And the first track delivered Here Come The Rome Plows is high octane (a cliche I know) and it didn't stop delivering. Last time I'll listen to it, but I respect those who get their energy from music like this.

A post-hardcore band I've never heard of before. Not really my type of music but I didn't mind it at all. Nothing mindblowing but not bad.

En ocasiones un tanto punk en otras más rockero. Predominio de guitarras, batería fuerte y voces agresivas.

I do like some math rock, this is solid but not my favourite from the genre

Nonni mähinää! Uusi tuttavuus tämä, mutta ei paha. Oon ehkä enemmän vanhan -82 hösselin fani kun tälläsen emomman ilmaisun mut on tässäkin puolensa. Jotain aika grungea tässä. Kansi on siisti 3/5

Hardcore emo math rock. It was interesting to listen to.

Like getting your ears shafted with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire; not bad if you like that sort of thing. Probably was a really important album to some floppy haired teenager back in the day. Best Tracks: Here Come The Rome Plows; Luau; Super Unison

Tony Hawk sounding screamo. Poorly mixed but many songs were long.

Bit too shouty and samey for me. Could've done with some smoother bits between the shouts

Anfang der Neunziger wurde viel geschrien. Die Platte klingt nach ihrer Epoche, ohne die Nirvana-hafte Rotzigkeit aber mit den raffinierteren Arrangements und Kompositionen.

Sounds a bit like Slynt. Probably better on the third or fifth listen. Still pretty neat.

it oscillates between "man, this is too much" and "i like this bit" - Tony 2022 I agree with Tony. Favorite track: Does Not Compute

2.5, technically impressive at points, cacophonous punk at others

Pas pire. On s’en va vers Refused et At the Drive In. Les pièces sont un peu longues pour ce qui s’y passe. Beaucoup d’énergie.

I wanted to like this but it was just really rough I though New Intro sounded kinda nice and I also love the multiple uses of 5/4 in the album but overall it was just kinda mid 5/10

This was pretty good. Some of the songs are a little on the long side, but they have a progressive quality, so they don't really feel that long as you're listening to them. Atonal, screamy, effective use of noise. Rocks hard. I like it. Fave Songs: Sinews, Super Unison, Human Interest, Golden Brown, Luau

Punk album with aggressive feel to it, overall good sound but some of it kind of sounds experimental? Didn't really find any "hits". Not my favorite, but wasn't terrible.

I'm not a huge fan of noise rock - this was fun but hard to listen to at times

I enjoyed this overall. Some of the songs were too long and veered a bit too much toward emo, but pretty good in general. 3 stars.

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Прикольный альбом, очень драйвовый. Прям душевно драйвовый. Но не мое.

Post-hardcore is a real borderline genre for me. Most of my fav music is heavy and I listen a fair chunk of *traditional* hardcore, but this tends toward non-Seattle alternative sounds too much for my liking. It gets up and going, there are cool riffs and passages... but only for brief flashes. On the other hand, it descends into downright noise allllll the time. The singing is pretty cool and I can hear the potential, but it feels like an idea that wasn't fully fleshed out (I know such a later comparison isn't really fair, but see Clowns for this vocal style perfected). Drummer is well and truly on top of the game though, nothing virtuosic but he holds the entire thing together imo. I guess my biggest criticism is the song structure itself: it feels like the average song is 5% intro, 25% guts, then 70% long-winded dissonant outro. This formula gets old at 53min. Still, I tapped my foot enough that it gets a pretty easy 3. If it was half an hour it'd probably be a 4 tbh. 3/5.

Some killer guitar riffs happening on this album but I don’t understand why this would be a top album. Nothing to separate them between other bands.

Was not in the mood for this at all, so I don’t know I gave it a fair shake - although I also think it had some objective flaws. Some really intolerable noise garbage. And though it’s par for this particular course, this particular style of shouty vocals doesn’t for me improve at length.

Ja, dat ga ik nog vaker luisteren.

Zou dit niet zo snel opzetten, maar het klinkt wel interessant en spannend.

Dit is niet voor elk moment heb ik wel gemerkt. Als je in de file staat is het echt niet goed te doen. Op vrijdagmiddag om wat werkfrustraties weg te spoelen daarintegen, is het wel weer lekker.

I'm glad I gave this one a chance and listened to it all the way through. I try to listen to each of these openly as I attempt to scrub away preconceptions and past experiences with music, but it's often difficult to do so. In this case, as soon as I heard the vocals, I recoiled a little because I generally don't like listening to screamed and shrieked lyrics. I appreciate much about punk and post-punk and the countless offshoots and subgenres, but most of the time I don't very much enjoy a lot of that music on a consistent basis. While the screaming did get to me at times, the musicianship on this album is outstanding. They compose, perform, and record superbly well. This project is helping me in so many ways. Play on!

Good energy, did like.

screamy but not annoyingly, interesting guitar work

Rating: 5/10 Bests songs:

Normal

Pretty cool for the Genre - can see the Emo influences permeate decades from this album - not my favourite genre to be honest and struggled to find standout songs - but I would have loved this had I discovered it in my youth

Nope - shouty unsophisticated crap - or at least the first track was. 2nd feels a bit more interesting into the two central massive tunes with more music and less screaming, much better glad I listened to this - I'm relistening already

if you like punk you may like this

punk

Heerlijke hardcore punk, lekerre rifjes

Rähinäpunkia ilmeisesti jonkinlaiselta genren pioneerilta. Genre sinänsä miellyttää itseäni kovasti, ja tämänkin bändin äänimaailma on sinänsä ihan toimivaa. Valitettavasti biisit itsessään jättää vähän kylmäksi eikä kokonaisuus jaksa pitää mielenkiintoa yllä ihan riittävän tehokkaasti. Selkeä kolmonen kaikkine plussine ja miinuksineen.

Pretty unrelenting, I needed a little bit more to grab onto

I really liked the first track "Here Come the Rome Plows." My immediate thought was "this is prog punk!" Very dissonant and loved the opening bass line. "Do You Compute" made me think of Tool. I was liking everything until the first 30 seconds of "Super Unison" - thanks for hurting my ears. As the album went on, the word "relentless" came to mind. Too much feedback, too much dissonance, too much screaming. There were a lot of great moments, but I think I can only take this band in small doses. Rating it a three from sheer exhaustion.

Normally I'd turn this off immediately, but it's overpowering the noise from the construction trucks outside so I'll keep it. You know, this isn't awful. If I were better on my shit back in my emo/pop punk days I should have been listening to this. It's good for the style of music.

A little annoying but It is a good album.

It was okay. Didn’t enjoy the first song but to my surprise it got a little better. The music was good, the vocals were not.

3 1/2

Kinda comme ci comme ca on this one. Good musicianship, decent writing. Good punk. I think I have to be in the mood for this type of angsty punk. Today was not that day. Good marks for writing. Low marks for listenablility.

Just a real mid. Nothing interesting.

I liked it. I felt like it was an influence to some of the bands I listened in middle school, like At the Drive-In or The Fall of Troy. The sound here, compared to other punk bands from the era begins to feel a little more complex, like it's taking some things from progressive rock. And while the musicians from Drive Like Jehu aren't virtuosos, they do a pretty good job making the album flow.

Never heard of this even once. Sounds like pretty hardcore alternative. I hear bits of grunge in the first song.... let's see what it develops into. VERY hardcore grunge/alternative; sounds like sometimes Nirvana, without as much melody or catchiness. 3/5

Songs were decent, musically, but I didn't care for the screamo vocals.

Really liked this, never listened to them before. Not heard much hardcore

3.6 - I never learned how to connect with math rock on an emotional level. Definitely not sure what these songs are about - it’s likely a lot deeper and smarter than my measly mins can comprehend. Still, I can appreciate the musicianship on this album and enjoy it on an intellectual level.

6

J’adore la musique pesante, mais pour cet album j’ai trouver ça décousu comme musique, sans être mauvais. On dirait le chanteur de RAM qui jam avec Nirvana. Je l’évite La guitare est souvent wacky et trop de distorsion, le chanteur me tappe un peu sur les nerfs à la longue Je lévite la bass et le drum tirent bin par contre

I'd never heard of this before. It's reminiscent of Alice in Chains or Jane's Addiction. Still, no song on the album really jumped out at me and I'm unlikely to go back to it, so I'm not giving it a mediocre rating.

Glad I listened to this CD. I get why it's in the list. Honestly it is too much noise for me.

Very hardcore punk

It was fine, not really my genre.

Love the pure expression of emotion. However some parts devolve a little too much into the "noise" genre for my tastes. The melodic parts really get me pumped, just wish they broke out into it slightly more often.

Wow - never knew how much Cloud Nothings ripped off this sound. If you told me this was a Cloud Nothings album, I wouldn't have batted an eye. I would like it more if it was a shorter, tighter 40 min.

Trashy, Hardcore.

3

Meh, lots of noise, not a lot of substance.

Meh. Lots of screaming.

I can appreciate how a lot of people might enjoy the frenzied aggression of this but I just don’t like shouty music, it gets annoying after a very short period of time. More frustratingly there are moments on this album where the shouting subsides and the music is actually decent, but they don’t last and the incoherent shouting resumes. Contrary to what some of the other reviewers say it’s not that I don’t get it, it’s that I don’t like it.

sinews is my favorite.

Most songs were far to erratic for me. There were a few moments in songs where I didn't mind but this didn't vibe with me at all.

Yup, I'm still not a post-punk fan. This isn't so much music as yelling and screeching. I liked the intro to Do You Compute....but then the "singing" started.

Je me suis senti agressé de bon matin. J'avais pas encore pris mon café ça va pas du tout. Mais bon les guitares envoient du paté de fou. Une fois mon café fini ça va mieux ! J'aime bieng même si ça reste mid. Ouais bon c'est long en fait. Il y a des bons passages, même très bons, mais ptn qu'est ce que je me suis fait chier dans l'ensemble (le genre me parle pas là mais si ça se trouve c'est un truc auquel je pourrais accrocher en m'y intéressant plus) J'ai adoré Super Unison & Do you compute

I saw Rocket From the Crypt live when they opened for Soundgarden. They were okay, but that's unfair because they opened for Soundgarden in their prime. This was much, much worse than RFtC. Is it on the list because it's punk but with really long songs? I don't get it. Feels like poor man's Suicide Machines. No, thank you.

This was very loud and not very nice. I was quite drawn in for the first couple of tracks, when I thought maybe it would be fun to have your head repeatedly drilled by noise, but ultimately it's quite tiring really.

I didn’t really enjoy it much.

nah

Not my style. 4/10

Straight off, I was reminder of the explosion of Punk Rock in 1976. No, not Sex Pistols, or Stranglers, or Clash, or Ruts, etc. It reminded me of the spotty local teens who believed the "everyone can do it" ethos, practised for an hour, then had a gig at the local school hall. More enthusiasm and energy than ability and artistry. 30 minutes of local fame, then oblivion. Yank Crime / Drive Like Jehu gave me the same vibe. After 4 songs, I game up, grateful that it wasn't another Rap album.

I didn't hate it, really, but I just feel tired after listening to a whole album of this kind of thing.

2.5 This kind of dragged for me, and I found a lot of the songs really blended together

I can smell their live shows, and I now have TB just from envisioning them. This sounds like something Nirvana was striving to be, and in coming up short improved it.

I get it, it feels like a noisy evolution of Fugazi, but I'm not really into it.

YELLING! ABRASIVE GUITARS! EMOTIONS! TWO MINUTES OF HIGH PITCHED DIAL TONE! MORE YELLING!!! FOR LIKE 9 MINUTES PER SONG AND 52 MINUTES TOTAL!!! Just terrible.

So noise. Much scream. I kinda like 'Luau', actually.

I really can’t get down

This is not my genre of rock. The songs all pretty much sound dull and the same and many of them go on way too long

Didn't enjoy

Nooit van gehoord… prima

Being a little familiar with Drive Like Jehu I was initially pleased to see/hear this on the list. It's blast of slightly out-of-kilter hardcore was certainly a pleasant change from what I have recently listened to on this list, but... I am not convinced it deserves its' place here. Many of the tracks just lack the oomph I really want, either just a fraction too sedate or frankly too meandering. though it's far from perfect their self-titled album is better in my book.

Неизвестная группа. Обычный гранж/хардкор. Ничего выдающегося на мой взгляд

Kinda makes me angry for some reason. Nice guitars tho

It's like Fugazi but without the intriguing lyrics nor the fractured instrumentation. Not my jam. 2/5

I don't think this genre is for me. Not only are the songs bloated but the screaming and sound walls disintegrate the sound so that it becomes akin to...just sound.

they tried for a sound and missed it

Just didn't click with me

Not for me

I really don't like this.

The vocals were not great and some songs were way too long.

Could have been shorter

Really just seemed like pointless noise. Didn’t like.

Not a fan of punk. I love a lot of rock and metal, but I don't love this.

Not a fan

Idk what to say it about it. Just didn’t like the shit tbh

Noisy yet boring.

Started as loud thrash and then changed to ok music with bad production. Songs went from quiet to loud and back to quiet and i felt like i was watching tv where tge show and commercials aren't at the same volume. Frankly it really detracted from my enjoyment.

I had heard OF Drive Like Jehu but am fairly certain I had never actually listened to them. Not a genre I have spent much time with as an adult. And about a minute into the first track, I am reminded why: my old ears don't appreciate noise like they once did. This seems fine and I probably would have loved it had I heard it at the time it was released. Encountering it for the first time in 2026 just makes me feel old. These songs seem a lot longer than necessary. The first 30 seconds of "Super Unison" made me turn down the volume to nearly inaudible.

Very expressive, dark and spooky

Nothing special

Not really feeling it. Almost gave it a 1/5 but there has to be worse music out there 2/5

Listened to it two or three times because I wanted to figure out how to like it. But I couldn’t tap into it. It’s kind of how I imagine people wondering why someone would like mewithoutyou. Maybe I’ll try it again.

No me gusta.

interesting enough, but it was rather samey to the point of monotony. didnt help that some of the songs and the album as a whole were too long

I was a DJ at my college radio station. Stuff like this was our bread and butter. Doesn’t age well. It may not have even been very good to start. This is what Boomers think Nirvana sounds like. Screaming. Wailing guitars. Distortion and feedback to a punishing level.

It's not unlistenable, but neither is it memorable.

Not my genre, but holy fuck

Noisy. Sometimes in a good way, but mostly in a way that is not my thing. Rating: 3/10 Favorite Song: Do you Compute

Rating: 5/10 Review: Just meh. Not for me. Kinda liked some of the instrumentals but the voice was too much for me. Also sort of boring and one note. Listen again?: No

Super early emo. Can tell its like, influential but didn't enjoy. I want to give it 1.5

Bit too much shouty/whiny and very repetitive/long in patches without seeming to be clever repetitive. Maybe I'm too old for noise and want it more musical. One of the tags for it is "noise rock" to me more noise and not enough rock. It did expand my listening repertoire, so I don't regret listening to it but would not listen again or seek out another album by them. Trying not just to give everything a 3 cos it didn't inspire me. So it's not a 4 which makes it a 2.

Never heard of album or band before. More historically significant than must listen. Not one of my preferred styles either. The siren start to Super Unison made me look at my phone to see if this was a test or real emergency. 0 songs added to playlist.

Yeah sorry i know this thing is beloved and all, but i just can’t with hardcore, i liked the lyrical meaning though.

Didn't like, felt like it lacked substance and just couldn't get past the first 2 songs

I will say the one interesting thing about this album is it's part of a subgenre called math rock. I like math much more than I liked this.

Haven't heard of them. What a mess, supposedly it's post hardcore math rock whatever but it sounds like a whole bunch of nothing. It's just not interesting 2/5

Fun vocals, but I kinda get tired quickly of the same type of songs

1994. Second and final album. Catalyst for the eclectic San Diego music scene and the emerging national emo scene of the 1990s.

Listened to this while on a run and thought it was ok, but why was it so long?

Yeah I really don’t like this genre The instrumental parts where they just jam out for a bit aren’t too bad, I bet it’d be cool to see live. I think the variety’s all right too, the tracks that slowly build up make the long runtimes a lot more bearable and interesting There’s a ton to complain about though, starting with what the hell was up with that 30 seconds of tinnitus on Super Unison? I feel like there were a bunch of moments on this one where they were trying to piss the listener off which I really dislike. The vocals are actively detrimental to the tracks; the genre’s definitely known for rougher vocals and uninteresting range but the album would be 100% better without them. Each track overstays its welcome by a couple mins at least, as well as the album itself being a couple songs too long I’m really tempted to give this one a 1 due to that awful first song and the aforementioned 30 seconds of torture but I think the instrumental parts are just alright enough to spare it from that fate

When I downloaded this album and saw that it was nearly an hour and ten minutes long, I started having negative feelings toward it immediately. I acknowledge this kind of pre-judgement is unfair, but my prior experience has been that most albums over an hour long feel tedious by the time you finish them. Then I had a quick look at the Wikipedia page and saw that the genre was post-hardcore and noise rock, and I only became more skeptical. One thing I've learned about myself from this project is that noise rock and adjacent styles are very much not my cup of tea. Different genres of music emphasize or value different aspects of music rhythm, melody, harmony, simplicity, virtuosity, energy and restraint. Most punk I've heard is heavy on rhythm and energy/aggression, and light on melody and tenderness. This just isn't to my taste most of the time. All this is to say that I was fully prepared to hate this album, but instead I merely disliked it. I feel like I've had a little breakthrough in realizing that if you don't think of the harsh sounding vocals as a human voice, but instead let it wash over you as just another instrument, then it fits in well with the heavy, distorted guitars and adds to the overall vibe instead of just seeming like tuneless screaming.

4/10

Too long

This just seemed to go on and on.

Every song was good, every song overstayed its welcome.

isn't music supposed to sound good 2/5

2.4

too noisy

yikes

So much noise. I'm sure these guys had a great live punk show, or something, but the labels in this era throwing money around and signing anybody that could pick up a guitar and scream into a mic hoping to find the next Nirvana often, in this listeners' opinion, resulted in audio duds like we have here.

I did not enjoy this, but then this is not music that I enjoy so that result is largely expected. It was not terrible though. There were little gems of instrumentation nestled in minuscule little parcels in amongst the noise and screaming. They accounted for such a small percentage of the whole album though, so mostly insignificant. The rest was just screamy noise and I really battled to get through it. The second half was slight better than the first half, which very possibly upped it from a 1 to a 2. Sinews was the standout track. 2 stars

I don’t want to sound like an annoying grandpa but this was definitely a bit to loud and rambunctious for me, personally. Some of the instrumentals were very good, but I wasn’t a big fan of the vocals.

Long drawn out and a lot of screaming. I’ve heard worse punk albums, but this one is not good. There are a couple of shining moments with those are so far and in between the very long run time I was very bored listening to such a loud album.

Punky. Bit not my thing. I'm not an angry teen lol

No sé de dónde diablos ha salido esta banda, pero no me ha resultado un descubrimiento especialmente interesante. El math rock puede resultar estomagante si no ofrece un poquito de emoción, y aqui, todos los temas suenan parecidos, como si la propuesta se hubiese agotado a la segunda canción. Se ha intentado, pero no.

There may have been a time when I went for this kind of music, but now it doesn’t have much for me. All pretty noisy and samey

No, pure noise, did-not-like.

I liked the first half of the album, I love punk but some elements I did not like.

Pretty noisy. It came out in 1994 and it reminds me a little of Quicksand Slip (1993) or Helmet Meantime (1992), which checks out. For me this album is just a little too noisy with not enough melody. Not interested in giving it a second listen.

Nirvana, Fugazi, Sonic Youth…. They all did it better. The songs on here are too long and it’s hard to digest. I thought I liked track three but found out that it was either the end of track two, or the beginning or middle of track three. Definitely not the last part of track three

Painful. And repetitive

Definitely not my genre of music. Too repetitive musically n lyrically. I did find the songs at the end interesting Sinews Hand Over Fist and Bullet Train to Vegas.

I don't know what exactly it is that doesn't appeal to me about hardcore. But I think it may be vocals, which seem to be attempting to maintain maximum intensity throughout every song. Calm down, guys, take a breath, put some dynamics into the music. Anyway, some of the noise reminded me a bit of Nirvana, which was kind of cool. But yeah, not really for me.

2.5 stars This could grow on me. But my first impression was that this was too chaotic for intense for me. I stated to get into it at parts. But you really have to be in the right mindset for something this abrasive. Post hardcore is not my genre, although I think elements of it have inspired music I truly love. I need a little more melody in my music, even if it contains the noise and screaming. And the math rock time signatures are fine, but after a while it feels like doing homework rather than listening to something do enjoyment. That is what would keep me from revisiting this I believe.

Abrasive and unrelenting, with many songs running for the close to ten minutes. Highlights include Luau, Super Unison and New Math. This album seems to have been labelled with lots of different genres, from post-rock to emo to math rock. I can see how it may have been influential to each of those, but it’s not really my cup of tea.

Not my thing

no thanks not for me

What a different time

A little heavier than I like

This isn't so much my thing, but I still appreciate hearing important albums outside my comfort zone--and to be fair there were moments I really got into it.

Didn't enjoy the vocals

These albums that were not commercially successful or often, not even critically successful upon their release are always an interesting listen. That we look back and note that these albums broke new ground in music that an audience wasn't ready for, and show respect for that is great. However, often these albums are for genres that I don't know or like the artists that spawned from this newly broken ground, so it is hard for me to go, "wow. Yes, look at what these guys were doing with distorted noise rock sounds in 1994, can you believe it?" While it was too long, I often enjoyed the more instrumental parts of the songs. Probably still a 2 though.

It's loud and punk rock, after a certain point it kind of just became noise to me.

Album 18 Top 3 favorites off the album: New Intro, Hand Over Fist, Here Come the Rome Plows I balked at the run time on this one. I'm no stranger to long albums, but I made the choice to look at the reviews of this one before beginning it. "Loud," "noisy," "too much screaming," and so on and so forth. I was nervous. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed the opening. After that, the album became a little grating in how repetitive some tracks were (4 songs in). The guitar became a little too gritty for me, and the screaming wasn't the kind I enjoy. I don't think Super Unison needed to be *that* long, but I willingly listened to Rundgang Um Die Transzendetal Saule Der Singularitat (girl where are all the umlauts and proper capitalization at?), so it's probably just a matter of, "I don't like this song very much so it feels longer than it is." Unfortunately, that was how I felt about most of the album. No beef with it, just not my thing. I've heard worse, I've heard better, this wasn't a bad experience. Also, that one review that says, "I think I love my parents too much to fuck with this album" is phenomenal. Short and sweet.

This is fairly shit. 2/5

Too angry for me

I'm no hater of loud, driving music but there ain't a lot of charm in this one. Hardcore often just sounds like noise for the sake of it. 2/5

Vehicles didn't even exist when he was alive, so this makes no sense.

Nao estava muito no mood punkish, mas tem boas guitarras.

This was a serious slog. It feels like they took a decent idea and just buried it under layers of unnecessary noise. The songs drag on way past their expiration date. That length kills any momentum they manage to build. It’s loud and chaotic, but not in a way that feels rewarding. Just tedious. Spins: 1 Playlist Additions - Golden Brown - Bullet Train to Vegas

I already feel physically assaulted two minutes in. Screeching, screaming and kicking… But I can appreciate the quieter moments and the instrumentation: eg large parts of Do You Compute or New Intro and Sinews. Regarding Super Unison - wow, he can sing normally! It’s two stars because of the band and because he can sing when he wants to. That doesn’t make it as bad as the albums I gave one star.

Apparently I listened to this and have no recollection of it. Not sure how positive that could be.

Screamo, thrash post-punk hardcore is not my vibe. I do love the intricacy to their playing, but don't love when it gets all smashed together in a ball of noise. On this album, the vocals and scratch/grating effects on guitar are off putting. +1 for naming a song Hand Over Fist but -1 for it not being a cover of the Rush song. 2⭐️

Ugly.

Was a bit too gloomy for me

The way this album starts so terribly and gets so good in the second half reminds me a lot of Houmous & Chutneys famous LP ‘Just You Wait Til Disc 2’ 2.4 12/12 Sinews (original version)

Meh. Not my thang.

furious, frenzied, hurtling along with nagging, neighing, ragged guitars and whining/screaming vocals which are mixed far back - obviously they are very agitated about something, but none of the words shed any light on what that might be. a tiresome, enervating listen

#766. I don't know what this is, and I am not interested in learning. 2/5: nah

I think this album is pretty awful. I'll stretch to two stars only because I think the drummer is pretty good.

This album sounds like is carefully crafted and it's suprising that the result is this disapointing. What a medicore expierience.

typical punk/grunge "underground" not mainstream band/album i really liked that type of music back in 2022 2/5

Not great at 9am. You can really hear the emo and pop punk that came after this, which I read about before playing the album. Overall, not for me but I can literally hear the influences.

Sounds a lot like early At the Drive-In or Sparta. Pretty discordant, and disheveled, but I do like the way it’s going. Raw enough to be difficult to listen to all the way

Lots of screaming and repetitiveness, a few good songs that I genuinely liked and vibed with but couldn't press like on any. Good to learn about a new garage band, but that's about it.

decent album but it went on for waaayyy longer than it had to. this should've been like 30 minutes long honestly

Pre: no clue Post: punk isn't my thing currently , was waiting for this to be over, some decent built to spill like moments though these guys did it first

A big beautiful noise from the early 90's!

Perhaps more influential than it is good?

A little chaotic and disorganized for me:

Was soll dieser scheiss Pfeifton bei Super Unicoirn, dachte ich hab Tinnitus gekriegt. Nicht meine Musik

Not for me.

I guess this is post hardcore? Apparently some band that only existed for about 5 years. Not my thing

2/5 Some interesting moments. The rest is terribly produced, terribly played and terribly sung punk music.

A musically intense and progressive post-hardcore album with complex guitar work and unpredictable song structures that kept me engaged. The instrumental side is inventive and full of energy, but the vocals didn’t connect—they felt more like noise than expression, which dulled the impact for me. Impressive musically, but not quite a standout overall.

Encheu o saco nas quatro primeiras músicas. Geralmente é o tipo de música que eu gosto de ouvir, e estaria em muitas playlists. Me lembra um pouco Middle Class Rut se fosse irritante e repetitivo.

I like some of the punk on here, but this did nothing for me.

It was just fine

90's punk that's not as good as other releases

Yeah this wasn't for me. Psychedelic stuff is fine from time to time but this just wasn't the day for it. Bullet Train to Vegas was pretty alright.

Ei oikeen hitannu. Muutama ihan hyvä biisi, muuten aika fillereitä ja mitäänsanomaton albumi. Varmaan punkista tykkäävälle toimii paremmin, mutta ei itelle. Ei kuitenkaan ykkösen veroista paskaa, mutta tollanen kakkonen aika ok arvosana tälle.

Vihaisilla miehillä on jääny kitarat virittämättä.

I can see how this fits many people, but it wasn't really for me. Too much screaming. They have some decent riffs going that I can imagine are done justice on a bit louder good sound system.

Some hits and misses, but i really couldn't get over the vocals. The misses outweighed the hits too. Honestly a punk album over 1 hour is way to long. Keep it short and sweet.

Not really for me

Went in blind. A mix of post-punk / early hardcore sound. Was reminiscent of my early days going to local hardcore shows. I could see how this might have been influential on the hardcore genre but it ultimately wasnt for me

Drive Like Jehu’s Yank Crime is a screeching collision of tangled guitars, screamy vocals, and relentless drums, a chaotic wall of noise where a bassline occasionally claws its way to the surface, like a drowning swimmer gasping for air. Imagine Sonic Youth’s dissonant sprawl crash-testing Fugazi’s wiry intensity, only stretched past the point of comfort—songs like “Do You Compute” and “Luau” drag past the seven- and nine-minute marks, daring your patience as much as your eardrums. The record finds fleeting clarity in “Golden Brown,” where the band leans into a more straightforward punk drive, but elsewhere the screeches and buzzes (see the mosquito-tone intro of “Super Unison” or the Kim Gordon-ready backdrop of “Human Interest”) feel more like endurance tests than catharsis. For those who worship noise rock’s messier saints, this may play like scripture; for the rest of us, it’s a sermon best endured from the back pew.

Oke, eerste indruk, aboslute tyfus herrie. Dit wordt een lang uur ergeren ben ik bang. Verdomme wordt hier helemaal aggressief van. En ben nog niet eens op de helft. Heb echt de neiging er met mn pet naar te gooien. Wat een herrie zeg. Waarom zou ik dit af moeten luisteren. Het wordt gewoon niet beter, ik geloof het wel. Nee, absolute herrie. Maar heb het wel afgeluisterd dus een 2. De 1 bewaar ik voor de echt onluisterbare, maar het zat op het randje.

Not my thing, also very obscure fucking album?

Nope…

This doesn’t really do much for me. It has elements I like, but not pulling through.

I liked this more than I expected to. Some of the longer tracks got a good groove going. But ultimately it was too thrash-y and hardcore for me.

-pretty back -some songs were off beat -too much going on in some songs

Foooome

That was a challenge. At first it had that early 90’s rage that at the drive in or the Nirvana bleach album had. Unfortunately the vocals weren’t as strong and the songs seemed longer than needed. Very repetitive. Cool to hear but probably my last time.

Not for me

i was not a fan of this. i guess i just don't like the emo genre. i read up on them, and can appreciate wat they did on the forefront of this type of music, but generally was not a fan.

Too long

Another dnf, I just hate listening to angry music.

I feel like I just listened to the same song 12 times.

So much obvious talent, but very raw. It never comes together into something that actually works.

Joo ei

Tälle vois antaa vielä mahdollisuuden.

Saan työpäivän aikana kuulla tarpeeksi tällaista sekasorron kaltaista älämölöä. ⭐️⭐️

I was not interested, to grindy and unpleasant. If I want something on this tone I prefer metal

Seriously the number of punk albums on this list is outrageous. It's really a shame that they aren't of better quality. This one is no different. It just isn't really that good. 2 stars out of kindness.

Kan sikkert være bra, men ikke morgenmusikk når jeg er sliten. Da er det for hardt når jeg ikke har noe forhold til det fra før

2/5

Me not for me

I realised after listening to this for about half an hour that I'd accidentally put it on shuffle. No way I'm starting again. 2*

I don’t get it, my favourite was the stripped back last track, the rest were forgettable.

I didn't mind it at first, but then I saw it was over an hour of this dude screaming and just said nope. Glad I never heard this back when I was a teen.

Super Unison //

When I downloaded this album and saw that it was nearly an hour and ten minutes long, I started having negative feelings toward it immediately. I acknowledge this kind of pre-judgement is unfair, but my prior experience has been that most albums over an hour long feel tedious by the time you finish them. Then I had a quick look at the Wikipedia page and saw that the genre was post-hardcore, and my misgivings only grew. Possibly I actually frowned while skimming the article. One thing I've learned about myself from this project is that punk and adjacent styles are very much not my cup of tea. Different genres of music emphasise or value different aspects of music - rhythm vs melody vs harmony, simplicity vs show-offy displays of virtuosity, energy vs restraint/tenderness. Most punk I've heard is heavy on rhythm and energy/aggression, and light on melody and tenderness. This just isn't to my taste most of the time. All this is to say that I was fully prepared to hate this album, but instead I merely disliked it. I feel like I've had a little breakthrough in realising that if you don't think of the harsh sounding vocals as a human voice, but instead let it wash over you as just another instrument, then it fits in well with the heavy, distorted guitars and adds to the overall vibe instead of just seeming like tuneless screaming

Sure this album was influential but it sucks, so who cares?

mm. the sound is fun but a bit unvaried. very long but often low on ideas. best moments are instrumental rhythmic ones. best tunes: do you compute, luau, new intro, human interest, sinews (great track)

Not a Emo consumer. Felt like more. Sad that the lead singer, Robert Froberg passed in 2023. Liked the "Luau" and "Plow" tracks. Not a lot depth.

Not for me.

2.5

My mistake was listening to this on the morning commute as it is not a chill album whatsoever. Didn’t hate it but no songs I’s return to!

01) Here Come the Rome Plows - 5,5 02) Do You Compute - 5,0 03) Golden Brown - 5,0 04) Luau - 5,0 05) Super Unison - 5,0 06) New Intro - 5,0 07) New Math - 5,0 08) Human Interest - 5,0 09) Sinews - 5,0 TOTAL: 5,06 (51/100)

Not for work! Requires rage as a vibe!

I keep hearing glimmers of legit musical talent, then someone starts screaming (indecipherably, but he feels some type of way to be sure). Followed almost immediately by feedback that threatens to shake your fillings out. It's 10AM, I just can't.

Feels ahead of its time

This isn't my taste.

This was just too much noise. There was nothing appealing here.

Listenable.

I dunno, I already have a Shellac record, so I think I'm set for math rock that is also angry.

Whoa...2 in a row that I've never heard of. And also 2 in a row that just don't do it for me. *shrug*. This is more interesting to me than the previous one (Penance Soiree). Not a genre I particularly know much about but I do feel this album had some thought put behind it. In the end, though, just not my thing.

Well, they certainly succeed in the "loud and chaotic" department, which seems to be what they are going for. If that's the kind of music you're wanting to hear, they will not disappoint.

Really couldn't get into this one, despite wanting to. I feel like a lot of music in this genre is carried by its vocalists and this one didn't do it for me.