Suicide

I was intrigued in the beginning but it all became repetitive noise soon after. And that moaning in "girl". Ew

Experimental. Una mierda bastante grande.

Zo kan ik ook muziek maken: de hele tijd het zelfde roffeltje herhalen en daar wat doorheen zingzeggen of kreunen. Op de achtergrond wat pingelen op je synthesizer en de plaat is weer klaar. Eerst denk je, het past wel aardig in het rijtje jaren zeventig-space age-platen, maar op een gegeven moment ben je het zat.

Deze band weet blijkbaar dondersgoed wat ze met deze muziek stimuleren ...

Vage intermezzonummers uit een plaat van The Velvet Underground met voornamelijk ruis. Dat vind ik normaal gesproken al irritant als dit soort stukjes 'muziek' tussen echte nummers door komen. Maar Suicide maakt er een heel album van. Wat een verschrikkelijke zaadmuziek is dit.

Barf

Nei, nei og atter nei

I've been trying to listen to each album 2x though when time permits. I would like to listen to this album negative 2x through. Is that possible?

This album was so boring. The same repetitive shaky-egg sound in the background with little else going on and "Girl" was one of the most uncomfortable songs I've had the displeasure of listening to.

You only need to listen to 20 seconds of a song at that gives you the sound for the entire song. Waste of time to listen to. It doesn't belong on this list at all.

Vocally this album is terrible, why was there moaning in this? The instrumentals were incredibly repetitive and they weren’t that great to begin with.

This shit sounds so stupid, it's hilarious. All the songs seem like they could lead up to something, but stay repetitive and fade away. In one song I think he's literally just jerking off into the mic. The next is a 10 minute song about a guy killing his family and himself then going to hell with accompanying sound effects. It was a riot.

No thanks

eu aprecio a experimentação do album, mas ela é construida em cima de repetição, isso torna o album torturante, é serio. eu gostei dos orgãos que eles usaram, aliviaram um pouco, mas ainda assim um album ruinzinho.

I liked the first two songs a little but then it just dropped from there, it’s unique but not great sadly a 1/5

Man, I just wrote what a contrast between Missy and Metallica, then we get these guys. Holy shit...... First song, I thought different but may be OK. Then every song got progressively worse and disturbing. By the time I got to Girl I was close to tapping out. Definitely should have tapped out. What in the hell was Frankie? Just brutal. I don't even know what to say about this album. Not for me. I let the genre play while typing. 2nd song played was Cindy by The Jesus and Mary chain, then Loose by the Stooges. I'm offended Spotify grouped these songs/groups with the album. Another 1 because you can't rate negative. Will not attempt to listen to anything by these guys. Feel a little emotionally disturbed for listening.

1 Wtf even was this? It’s good to know that I could make an album of absolute fucking nonsense and it could be considered an all time great. I was already annoyed and then there was a 9 minute song and then I was pissed. Fuck this.

1 I feel like I was violated listening to this thing. Being that it was released in 1977, you could argue that it was ahead of its time, but my takeaway was that there was clearly still a ways to go in electronic music. I mean, the keyboard on Ghost Rider was so harsh that I thought I was about to be impaled by the audio waves. Johnny was kind of funny to me at least because all I could think of was the opening to the Peanuts theme - kept waiting for Schroeder to jump in with the high part. Unfortunately, my mood quickly shifted when I became very, very uncomfortable right afterwards with Girl. And then don’t even get me started on Frankie Teardrop. It was clear about a minute in that the next nine were about to be very long and… and then… then the screaming started 0_0 One day I’m going to wake up with a cold sweat in the middle of the night thinking about this song. Supposedly this is supposed to be a take on punk, and I guess I can hear that in its rawness, but I feel like punk is supposed to stand for something, and I don’t think this stands for anything. Call it experimental if you want, it doesn’t make it listenable.

It has become apparent why the album is called suicide. This album is a waste of time. Pick a beat and put some weird echo like reverb on your microphone and just say random fucking words. Not sure if that is what synth pop is in general but man I never want to listen to that again...I award this album no stars and may God have mercy on Frankie Teardrop's soul

What did I just listen to?? When Girl was on I took my headphones off at least 5 times to make sure it wasn't playing out loud while I was in my office Would not recommend doing drugs and listening to this album

An unpleasant listening experience. This is the kind of music I would play to someone if I was torturing them. I guess some people could see this as art, and at least it's different. I couldn't tell that this was made in 1977, it could have just as easily been made today.

Repetitive boring melody, boring lyrics and then to make it slightly less boring: the dude screams a bit.

I feel like I clicked on the wrong album. What an awful time. An awful record.

I don’t get it. Sounded like amateur ramblings.

If I could rate this 0, I would. 1/5.

This is the worst album I’ve ever heard

No me gustó para nada, sonido repetitivo, gritos que me dieron ganas de sacarlo

This dude got a Casio keyboard for Christmas one year and made the same song over and over.

not my jam

not my cup of tea. at all

Deeply unsettling. Murdering your wife and baby coz life is tough?!?! And then "let's hear it for Frankie" nah.

Just no. Why dies it have to have this super annoying white noise on almost every Track?

wtf was this

Absolutely shit

This album is beautifully titled, as it encapsulates the fact that it makes me want to commit suicide

I mean I guess I can see how this would've been groundbreaking for the time, but I kind of really didn't like it. The instrumentals are fine but the vocals threw me off. Was losing my mind at "Girl" and "Frankie Teardrop", and not in a good way. No fave track.

Very very odd, not always in a good way. Not terrible, far from great, but really strange. Not for me thanks. Still miles better than Nico though!

First song, eh, not bad. Then the drum beat continued, then a man screamed at me, then I understood why this has so many 1 reviews

This record sounds like Lou Reed both literally and figuratively jerking off in a bathroom with a tape recorder and Casio keyboard.

I wanted to like this but I just couldn't. A boring, self indulgent pile of wank. Crappy repetitive beats and uninspired lyrics that sound like they being made up as they go along. Never again.

What a pile of shite

What is this edgy Elvis / Joy Division shit? 1/3 of this album is that 10mins teardrop track… Here’s Frankie by Sister Sledge: https://youtu.be/1Tl-c_puzbM

Best Song: Ghost Rider. The backing groove is kinda nice. Worst Songs: Girl. Mother of God who the fuck wants to listen to this horny, desperate mumbling? Also Frankie Teardrop, for being one of the least musical songs I've ever heard. Overall: What at first seemed like some marginally interesting groove tracks descended into absolute hell due to the vocals layered overtop. The absolutely non-musical screaming, blowing out the mic? Insane, paranoid "lyrics"? If you played this song to an enemy combatant it would count as a war crime. I read they declined to play this at Abu Ghraib, citing it as too cruel.

not my thing

Cute on a cerebral level, but does absolutely nothing for me in the enjoyment department. 1/5

J'ai cru au début que ça allait bien se passer mais c'est la descente dans les tréfonds de l'angoisse

*vomitif puissant, penser à ne pas boire la veille de l'écoute

I don't know what to say. This was more background noise than a nice album to listen to. Didn't feel that Electronic to me. Did I hate it, no. Did I like it, no.

Sorry to all the other albums I have given a 1, this is the newest low.

s h it

this album is forgettably bad and i don't get why it's in this collection

Every single song has some in incessant hissing noise, which continues throughout the entire album. It MIGHT get 2 stars if it didn't have that annoying sound, but alas, I really hate it.

no never again

This whole album sounds like the beginning of an acid trip going bad. I listen to some weird stuff, but this…this was out there. Loved the 4 minutes of him just saying “oh girl” and moaning over the same 2 chords. Frankie Teardrop was unnecessarily unsettling…but let’s hear it for Frankie James if you read reviews, these are the most moonsounds like lyrics I’ve heard.

不是我的菜

This was horrible

This was very innovative for 1977. And I can certainly see how this would have influenced many different genres going into the 80's. But innovative and influential doesn't mean, in and of itself, that it's any good.

OMG, No.

All songs looks the same, really boring band

For the first 10 seconds of Ghost Rider, I thought maybe this could be a decent album. Nope. Monotonous and boring, the tracks are basically spoken tracks over repetitive sound effects. Of the total 32 minutes for the album, over 10 minutes are dedicated to Frankie Teardrop. I couldn’t help but laugh at how stupid the song was. “Oh Frankie Frankie…oh Frankie Frankie!” … 2 min of repetitive whirring sounds… scream into the mic.

For my listening pleasure, the computer says “Nope!”

Maybe I was not in the right mood for this, but this was pretty awful. I started writing this before I got to Frankie's Teardrop and then Wow. I can understand how this is influential to a lot of things I do like, but this was still terrible. Songs to Add to Library None

Rasping, discordant and brutal so a very limited outlet.

Nope, not for me

Afschuwelijk!

Alt 70s rock Girl was mad funny

Didn't enjoy this at all.

hahaha ok this was terrible. Most of it sounded like a CD skipping while someone mumbled over the top.... until he started yelling over the top instead. 1/5.

Opening riff sounded really promising, hard-driving beat with lots of heavy distortion. Unfortunately that doesn't set the correct tone for what's to come, you're going to get some weird goth/artsy singing with proto-industrial electronic beats in the background. Was prepared to give this a 2 after the first couple of songs, not my thing but I liked the beats and for being ahead of it's time. Then "Girl" and "Frankie Teardrop" happened. Utter garbage, making weird orgasm noises and then the next song just saying "this guy killed a baby and his wife" then screaming for 7 minutes. Waste of time, if you're reading reviews before starting just skip this one, it's that bad.

Aptly named.

Terrible crap

Punk-rock electrónico. Ruido. No me ha gustado nada. Un 1.

Finally! An album and band whose name shares the same sentiment a listener feels after listening to it. How does stuff like this even crack the 1001 list? Horrible, basically just spoken word. 2/10

Aptly named

Shame you can’t give a 0 rating. Genuinely one of the worst things I’ve ever heard. The only list this should be on is 1001 awful rackets to subject terrorists to.

Shite

No, no, nope. Don't like it.

A bad bad album, with the worst song ever released. Frankie Teardrop can fuck off.

Dark, nobody wants to listen to this.

Reckon it is on here because it pursues an idea ahead of it's time. But it is doesn't compare to other electronics or what is about to emerge with Joy Division. It is the shortest album I have reviewed at 32 mins and this is already 7 mins too long with the shocking track that is Frankie. Lyrics exceptionally weak all round. Cover art 4/5

couldn't get through the whole thing

Hi- Rocket USA Lo- Girl, Frankie Teardrop Feels like the roots of bands like Joy Division and other industrial acts; I can hear a lot of influences in modern music...with dark and brooding late 70's synth and electric drums. It's hideously experimental; the vocalist doesn't really sing, but rather blurts (and sometimes screams) unstructured beat poetry, trying to tell some story. Girl is just repetitive and way too long for a song that doesn't really progress....but then you get to Frankie Teardrop...I don't really call this music but some kind of interpretive performance art. Most of the tracks on this album just meander and it's unpleasant to listen to.

There's a reason for the name... if you've never contemplated suicide, after hearing this...

Not a good album

3/10, dated, flat, uninspiring. May have been groundbreaking in '77, but sounds flat to '22 ears. Some good concepts, but not utilized well. this album may be a grower, but it's sure not a shower.

HUGE pass. Barely made it through the first song "GhostRider" without feeling like i'm dizzy due to the static instrumental.

Really weird album. Nothing noteworthy really about this. It felt like an emo album that tried to be edgy except it was from the 70s. Barely made it through the first time around. 1.9/10

לא שמעתי הכל לא אהבתי

Hat garbage.

No

No puedes simplemente poner loops y hablar por encima y llamarlo música. ¿o sí?

Had to skip most of this. I felt like I was wasting time listening to this even though it was while I was doing other things.

false

Wow, this just sounds really really bad. I can understand how it might have been very original at it's time and how it may have influenced a lot of later, better music. But this just sounds atrocious.

I kept waiting for this album to break open and it never did. I wanted to like it more than I did. I suppose if I was laying on my childhood bedroom floor listening to the album through headphones while dosing I would have connected with it. Soberly listening to it in my office, it was a bit repetitive and monotonous. Frankie is annoying. Good riddance.

This sucks

It's unlikely that I will be listening to this ever again, much less once a year.

meh

0.5 terrible

did not enjoy this album

Garbage. The name fits.

1977. Key Songs: Cheree

Worthless fucking garbage.