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

Maybe for tripping in a basement, but this album just doesn't hit at 10am on a Tuesday.

Thats LSD music : )

Noisy and beepy

A hard listen with small nuggets resembling proto industrial, I guess

Eh...I can appreciate that there is some avante guarde merit there but not for me.

😳 Throwing in an extra star on the assumption that they pioneered something.

Just plain weird

This record, more than Kraftwerk, has the DNA of all the great industrial bands of the 90s and 2000s. NIN has been my favorite band since 1994 and while this is no Downward Spiral, I get the reference.

I didn’t really enjoy listening to any of this and it almost left me weeping on the floor. I guess I found it conceptually interesting, but not really something to listen to for entertainment or comfort.

It's throbbing gristle - one can only take so much at a time.

Very different Talks about a lot of morbid topics, hence the name

Not for me

yuck

First dive into industrial metal.

Very weird. The whole talking bits were interesting. Not my jam though

I was pretty happy to see that the songs were short. Turns out, short is very much relative... For a mediocre pop song, two minutes is nice and brisk. For a loop of computer sounds it's... Not. And, like, I even kind of like the idea behind this album, and thought it stabilized a bit later, but man, way too much of this was just unpleasant noise that went on too long.

I don’t even know how to rate this on a standard like/dislike scale.

Industrial. Le pongo un 2 porque alguna no es ruido sin más...

La única canción que me ha gustado ha sido una que puso Deezer cuando el disco se había terminado. Bueno, y I.B.M. era graciosa. Género Industrial, avant-garde. Bueno, sí, un poco ruido de fábrica sí que parece. Eso es cierto que está muy logrado. Por eso, y por I.B.M., lo salvo del 1.

A bit to experimental. Not my kind of soup.

It's like a timecapsule to back when this was experimental and new. Some early examples of like synthwave with AB/7A en dark synth with Hamburger lady. Very interesting.

Odd synth music that was interesting as a concept, but didn’t enjoy

Just noise and didn't care. Sorry. Only so much ambience a gal can handle

Throbbing Gristle, what a name to represent a very interesting album. Beginning caught me off guard big time, each song seemed like I was communicating with an Alien. Weeping and hamburger lady were decent trippy songs. The album ended with some less Alieny music, which soothed me on my bike ride home. This band HAD to be abducted because no other type of inspiration makes sense

Good background music but wouldn't want to listen to consciously

Really didn't care for this at all. It's interesting, but I don't know why I'd ever revisit it. There's no rhythm to it, and I can't get down to something with that is devoid of rhythm. 1.5/5

Meermaals gedacht: "Wtf ben ik naar aan het luisteren?". Net intrigerend genoeg om te blijven luisteren, maar niet genoeg om er van te kunnen genieten

Pas aussi mauvais que les gens semble indiquer sur le site. Mais c’est weird tout de meme. J’ai ecoute vraiment en backgro7nd et ca ne m’a pas derange du tout. Pour etre franc, j’ai mieux aime que taylor swift… 2.90

1978 - Industrial music; Avant-garde music

Experimentació sense creativitat ni ànima. Voluntat d'epatar sense un nivell artistic que la faci rellevant. Dues estrelles i no una per la seva precocitat en algunes de les técniques de gravació i sons, que amb els anys (décades) es reprendrien i millorarien amb escreix

wtf was this

The repetitive threnody sounds didn't really lend to me liking the album. The industrial sounds over the vocals didn't really create a pleasant melody.

This seemed like something I should like a lot, and instead it annoyed me.

Great first song title ofc ;) For the remainder... okay, it´s somewhat intriguing, but then again why would one listen to it more than once? I mean.... really? why??

Demasiado surrealista para mi gusto. Interesante diseño sonoro

Pretentious bollocks!

Not for me.

If you like listening to dial up moderns, pocket dialing, and someone trying out all the presets in their new keyboard, this is the album for you. Absolutely awful.

Bit unusual this one, can’t say I’d play it again but it’s still better than anything that C**t kendrick lamar has done

Well I made it to the end- I certainly won’t make it back to the start. A quick google tells me the act sold 200k albums… I bet of those nobody listened to the album twice! Worst album so far on this journey and I can’t imagine one been this bad again. 0/10

I’m sure I’m not the only person to think the same way 1.3 out of 5

Nope. Shite.

NUR GERÄUSCHE TF

This sounds like something that Maude Lebowski would listen to.

Okay there's some bits of music contained in there, but absolutely none of it was songs.

muy conceptual

Literally just noises.

Nope

super distinct industrial sound from the late 70s, but i struggle to find any enjoyment from it.

Professionelles Akustikkppeln ohne den Hauch von Musik. Schrecklich.

I had to see what all the hubbub was about. First off, don't like the album cover. First track- "okay weird intro" Seond track- "Double intro?" Fourth track- "Finally, music!...?" and then I skimmed through the rest of it... what the fuck is this? Apparently as long as you were a group of blokes in the 70s this fool thinks it's worth a listen?

This made me feel the same way the movie Eraserhead did. I hated everything about it and my life is now forever worse for letting it into my brain.

Oh, I get it. This is an album the same way a blank canvas with one red circle is a painting. This is the sort of “art” pretentious ass holes claim to love just because all us stupid normal people don’t get it. Shove your noisy piece of shit album back up your ass, Throbbing Gristle. 0⭐️

This album was disturbing on so many levels, creepy, and just plain ew. There is something very wrong with this. Never had a band terrify me with their music. Gross! Never again. Zero stars

Felt like I'd been butt-dialed by a tumble drier. Atonal noise with barely audible mumbling over the background, feels like an awful art gallery piece. Not sure who this had an influence on but will avoid their stuff

Based on the album cover and the reading I have done on the insert in the album, I am not listening to this. It’s all well and good to be bad boy rebels until children are victimized. Fuck this.

Nope. Noise to me.

Nope

Dislike.

I don’t know who is more ridiculous and pretentious: the “artist” themselves thinking this was actually of quality, or the fool(s) on this selection board who actually green lit this shit.

This is probably the worst thing I’ve listened to. We had some crap on this list but might be the first time I would’ve given something a 0.0. Turrible, turrible, knucklehead, turrible.

I counted exactly one song I thought was somewhat tolerable. I’m down with some out there music, but can’t get behind random annoying sounds. Nothing about this is interesting. 0/5

What even was this? Not good.

Literally just noise. I can't imagine anyone actually enjoying this.

Oh great. I finally get the worst rated album on this site. That means nothing gets worse than this. That cover is something else completely, I don't even want to get started on that.

I mean this is garbage but then again there are many equivalent on this list.

Nearest i can come to a positive is that ‘weeping’ at least has the constituent parts of a song. Not a good song but beggers cant be choosers on this album. ‘Ab/7A’ also has potential to be considered actual music. Abysmal.

It felt like I had been kidnapped by aliens.

I knew going into this, that this was the lowest scoring album globally, so I sort of expected to hate it. And... I don't? I mean it's not something I particularly want to listen to, and honestly probably about 50% of it isn't really music so much as clips of people talking bollocks over droning, but it's less offensive than a number of other albums this generator made me listen to. I still hate that Liars album with a fiery passion, but this cannot inspire that much anger in me. I am never, ever, ever going to listen to it again but, you know, I sort of understand why some people might? 1/5 (but it genuinely might have got a 1.5 out of me if the option were available)

6/26/26. Not for me. Noticed a lot of sampling used and understand that it helped establish industrial as a genre, but thought it was largely un-listenable. Maybe my opinion will change down the road!

I gave this a fair shot. I did. But it's more like a Throbbing Headache if you ask me. It's just noise, man.. and not even the good kind that grows on you. Feels like listening to a bunch of arguments happening at once. Spins: 1 Playlist Additions - AB/7A

I hate this.

This is not music

wow

Sorry, no

i don’t even know if this is music for real.

Insert "This is noise" meme

Just too experimental for my taste. However, I do acknowledge that this may have been ahead of its time, and while nowadays these sounds would be easy to make, back in the day this may have been among the first ones of these kinds of albums.

I usually give albums I’m relatively unfamiliar with a couple of listens to get a true feel for the album. Didn’t need to listen twice to this one. Not my thing

Truly just an awful waste of vinyl that this crap was even printed. I cannot even imagine thinking this was worth listening to in a drug induced haze of my college youth. Total crap, and if given the choice I would probably prefer a 5th Radiohead album on the list. :)

It’s finally my turn to trash on the worst reviewed album on the website 🥹. Yeah it’s bad. I don’t mean this in a reductive way or something, but most of this isn’t really music. It’s just noises. It’s not pleasant noises either. It sounds like it was engineered to be unsettling and disturbing and annoying. So maybe it’s redeemable as an art project of sorts. But as music? Not really.

Yea, fuck that, nah

Look, I have to go 1 on this one. The music is just bad. But I agree this is a good addition to the list. It is something I’m glad to hear once before I leave this plane of existence. The noise and dissonance ideas here will eventually be used by Radiohead, Flaming Lips and Wilco to create Kid A, Soft Bulletin and YHF. I enjoyed it much more than other albums I voted 1.

At moments, it was unsettling to listen to.

I couldn't. I just couldn't

loco no todo sonido es musica. me quiero matar. Ab7A me gusto un poco el inicio. siento que es buena musica para una peli en el espacio que estan flotando

I sat on a train in the morning on the way to the city tired as fuck and listened to this pretentious industrial crap. I really do not care for this at all.

the worst thing I've ever listened to. wish I could give it 0 stars.

Eh. I love musique concrete but not this industrial music. Nothing id enjoy

I can see this used as a soundtrack in some contemporary art museum for some conceptual art that looks interesting but does not fully make sense. It would fit there just perfectly. However, when talking about the actual music to listen to, I want a real fucking burger, not this pretentious nonsense that is making fun of the listener.

These aren't songs they are tracks and all of these tracks suck ass. I'm all for experimental but this is just a waste of time. This is the kind of crap that pretentious people say "this is genius!" . It's not. It's really, really, really not good. I don't think they'll let you do 0 stars here so I guess it gets 1

I have no idea what the hell I just listened to. Pre-Avalanches executed horribly. “They should have left it at 1000 albums…” 1

This album sucks, just a bunch of random electronica noises highly distorted or like dual British television segments playing in the background to some static type shit, Hank Hill said it best: "oh god! Its all toilet noises!"

Interesting in a what is music way. What is art? Is it music, are apparent sounds, recordings of happenings music? They are obviously structured and titled but With very little in the way of note or chord progression. When it did what is considered musical, ABA7 it didn’t exactly stretch the basics of known music. It's more of the installation art than anything else field, the pile of bricks of this list. Is it pushing boundary and advent garde vs is it simply a promotion excercise by supposed artists and/or the Emperors new clothes. In the end, it wasn’t as taxing or hard a listen as the average score on here had me believe. All a bit creepy down to the cover.But on singularly music experience I still have to give it 1 Star

Not actually music A collections of noises to irritate someone 1

Schizo breakdown the album. I was going to give it 2 stars for having the niche use of a midnight scary album to spook you a bit, but i played this in the car in the middle of the day and some of the sfx made me think my car was breaking, so nah screw this thing.

Does it come with the calendar?

This shit felt like a lame ass prank and I promise we are not laughing.

Wish I could rate negative numbers. This isn't even music. What record producer thought, hey this is worth putting money out to produce and sell? Worse thing ever.

Desde que la primera canción fuera el ruido de cuando uno se conectaba a Internet por el teléfono fijo por casi 3 minutos, sabía que esto iba a ser otro álbum pretencioso. Infumable, inescuchable, no loterimné y con razón es el peor calificado de los 1001

Throbbing Gristle – Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter und Peter Christopherson, allesamt Engländer, entstanden aus der radikalen Performancekunstgruppe COUM Transmissions – veröffentlichten 1978 ihr zweites Studioalbum auf dem bandeigenen Label Industrial Records und lieferten damit ein Dokument, das bis heute schwer einzuordnen ist. Die Aufnahmen entstanden in den Industrial Records Studios in London, live im Highbury Roundhouse und am Goldsmiths College sowie an einer Reihe namenloser Orte, deren Roheit im Klang spürbar bleibt. Das Ergebnis ist kein Album im konventionellen Sinne, sondern eine Bestandsaufnahme: roh, präzise und ohne Zugeständnisse. Dreizehn Tracks, die kein einheitliches Stilkonzept verfolgen, sondern ein Prinzip: jede vertraute Form so weit dehnen, bis sie bricht. „I.B.M." eröffnet mit synthetischer Kälte, „Hit by a Rock" zerlegt Punkstruktur durch bloße Absicht, und „Dead on Arrival" entwirft einen Tanzgroove, für den es 1978 noch keine Tanzfläche gab. Im Zentrum steht „Hamburger Lady" – eine Komposition, die nicht begleitet, sondern einschließt: ein medizinisch distanziertes Textfragment über schwere Verbrennungen, unterlegt mit mäanderndem Synthesizer, brutal gerade durch seine Sachlichkeit. D.o.A. war nie darauf angelegt, gehört zu werden – es war darauf angelegt, zu bleiben. Throbbing Gristle schufen hier das Vokabular für etwas, das damals noch keinen Namen hatte, und zerlegten es im selben Atemzug. Wer nicht genau hinhört, hört Lärm; wer es tut, begreift die Kontrolle hinter der Störung: jede Dissonanz gesetzt, jede Pause kalkuliert, jeder Schockmoment konzeptuell verankert. Ein Album, das 1978 wie ein Einschlag wirkte – und bis heute nicht verhallt ist.

Not for me. 1/5

Somehow excels equally at being annoying and boring. That's a difficult and unforgiveable target to hit.

Horrible, it was just noise. Like, what?

Woke up with a massive headache today, this obviously made it worse. Also why is it the third and final report when this is only the second album....

Meh, I've explained my position these kinds of albums plenty of time, I don't need to do it again. But what intrigued me was seeing they had live albums. I wonder how that works.

Traumatising

Ok, look. If there was a zero rating, this would be it. It is thebworst thing I have had the displeasure of listening to and believe me when I tell you I have heard some shit in my day. Atrocious.

Sure it's terrible. It's a boring, not especially inventive, series of sound collages. But I would still prefer this over Napalm Death.

Weird. Extremely experimental. Not my cup of tea.

This was completely terrible. Like a pretentious student sound design project. Not a single track on there recognisable as a song. 1/5.

Nope.

1/5

I can't say that this album was good. There has to be an audience for this, given the amount of listens, but it was really not great at all. The first song was just noises and I guess they're maybe trying to show something, or it's a set of sounds that people can use in their low-budget films, but enjoyability-wise, this was awful.

After I surprised myself by liking the Liars album, I said this project was converting me to noise rock. It turns out I do still have limits though.

Ass

Barely qualifies as music. On multiple occasions I could not work out if I was hearing the album or random shit going on around me. Nonsense. 1/5

Wow. Can't believe they took the time to remaster this horrendous piece of music. Can't believe I sat through all 41 minutes at 52 seconds. Painful listen. 1/5

I bet ethel cain listened to this and was like damn they ate. and for that I appreciate throbbing gristle but other than that I do not appreciate throbbing gristle. not all bad but id just never ever ever listen to this.

Pas de quoi s’énerver : je trouve que c’est pousser l’expérimental trop loin et donc vraiment inintéressant mais pas plus agaçant que les gros prouveurs dans les reviews mondiales qui ont mis 5 pour prouver qu’ils sont différents

No and never again. Someone was having a bad day, decided everyone else needed to have one too, and added it to this list. Was there a bet that they could get people to listen to this album?

I feel like Don Draper trying to listen to Tomorrow Never Knows. This isn’t an angry 1 but it’s a 1

I no longer have the patience, stamina, or desire to understand why the man recording the saw mill means fascism is coming to 1970s western Europe.

wtf

Inte genomgående totalt kasst musikaliskt men projektets kanske värsta artistnamn sänker det hela ett snäpp ytterligare.

41 minuter tech demo. Nej tack.

Inte njutbart alls

Jag trodde jag visste vad oljud var...

Absolute, unlistenable garbage

It’s not even music, it’s just noise

01) I.B.M. - 1,0 02) Hit by a Rock - 3,0 03) United - / 04) Valley of the Shadow of Death - 1,0 05) Dead on Arrival - 3,0 06) Weeping - 2,0 07) Hamburger Lady -2,0 08) Hometime - 1,0 09) AB/7A - 3,0 10) E-Coli - 1,5 11) Death Threats - / 12) Walls of Sound - 2,0 13) Blood on the Floor - 1,5 TOTAL: 1,91 (19/100) This is not music.

Stock music for an avant garde college student film. So if you're looking for that type of album before you die, here you go.

Yikes. Starting with a bunch of feedback is a really tough intro. Can't believe it's the whole song?!

Makes EDM sound like Beethoven.

Justo cuando este proyecto me esta dando muy buenos albums aparece el primer 1/5 This is just noise. The kind of thing you expect to hear in the background of an obscure and disturbing modern art display.

Not music. Just noise.

Not even music, really. I think only a very tiny proportion of people in the world have lived a worse life for having never heard this, so how anyone could possibly include it in a list titled "1001 albums you must hear before you die" is beyond me

This was absolutely awful - I had to skip through it. Industrial-electro-synth-noise. The only track that remotely resembled music was ‘AB/7A.’ Everything else was just screeching noise or random, low-fi, conversations that seemed almost accidentally or secretly recorded or just low-fi recorded from a movie/tv show. If I could rate this ‘0’ I would.

Neat for the time it came out, but I wouldn't listen to it again. Hamburger lady is geniuely unsettling

Just the worst.

Pretty obvious

For the most part, this is very literally not music. There is a ton of noise and sounds and I did not enjoy listening to it.

Is this album on here as a joke? Why is the AOL dialup noise considered a "song"? This is different enough that I can see why people would like it, just because it's contrary and different. I don't tend to enjoy things that are different just for the sake of being different, but with no real new or interesting or enjoyable about them. There were a couple of songs I almost enjoyed, until they kept going and ruined it.

Even Sonic Youth says ‘WTF?’ I don't see why this is included in the list. And surprisingly this album has been remastered! Still edges Bob Dylan though.

Felt like just noise with occasional, far off in the distance reverberations that originated from snippets of music. Surprisingly this is not the most jarring thing I've listened to.

If I could id give it a 0 star rating. Absolutely awful.

what the actual fuck. i would listen to eerie movie soundtracks if i wanted to. thats not something i relate to

Man…….

Ik snap nie

Why

1/10

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muy malo no me gusta en ningun aspecto

throbbing gristle being the band name is ironic because that’s exactly what this sounds like. Holy hell this was a tough listen. Funny enough, I dived into some of their other work and there was stuff I almost find somewhat interesting. This, however does not scratch that itch for me. I could totally see this in some really shitty low budget horror movie soundtrack.. (in the best way, truthfully) think the original Terrifier

The problem is that this is ambitious but has no sort of aim. It is just noise and that is fine because it is challenging what music can be but it does not even try to set up that dynamic for us. These guys invited industrial music and that is cool but it’s just noises and the music portion is bad besides the sped up version of untitled and AB/7A. Awesome synth on AB/7a but it can’t bring a whole album up. I wish this was just more interesting but I am glad for its impact

Reminds me of the stuff I heard in my dreams when I took melatonin. No thanks.

After a few tracks I tried to describe this to someone as if someone hooked up a bunch of electrodes to equipment in a poorly run kitchen, I looked down and the name of the song was hamburger lady. When the first track started I thought ok this could be a cool intro, but no it was just the “song”

Just not enough music to make it enjoyable.

oof

It just sounds too much like noise for my taste.

We can only assume this is the album Jeffrey Epstein tortured his victims with

Me to myself: “have an open mind, how bad can it be?” Turns out it is actually that bad. Still better than Kid Rock though.

Hard to know how to rate something that tries as hard as it can to not be music. It's certainly interesting from the perspective of being an experimental work - a sort of exploration of sound... but is it a good album? Is it essential listening before you die? I'm not sure it is. I'd much rather have had a good album to listen to that is trying to be music (even if it's really weird music) than something like this, but I don't hate it outright. Part of me wants to treat it fairly neutrally and give it a 3, but I also feel that wouldn't be fair to a number of 2/5 albums I've reviewed that were maybe not "better" than this, but were certainly more enjoyable to me.

Truly one of the worst albums I have listened to. (Do I have to give it 1 star...?)

This really is a pile of crap. A mystery it was ever recorded.

Listened Before? N Wow, I sure am glad someone spent their time remastering this pile of crap. Also, what's with the pedo shot of the little girl? Gross. Added to Library? N Songs added to playlist: United (because it's 16 seconds long)

I think I'm missing something...? I don't get it. If I could give this 0/5 I would.

1.5

The worst thing an album like this can be is boring. No reason for a lot of these tracks to be as long as they are.

This album does have a place in music, but cannot have a place in my ears. Very terrible to listen to.

1/10 - I understand how this is the lowest rated album on the list.

Track 1: een boel piepjes. Track 2: wat onverstaanbaar geblèr van ver weg, op een bedje van guitaargemurmel. Track 3: een cassettebandje wordt vooruit gespoeld. Track 4: een of ander vrouwke brabbelt wat door het geluid van een wasmachine heen, gevolgd door een stel kerels. Track 5: er wordt (heel lang) gepield op keyboard en gitaar, het lijkt in de verte zowaar op muziek. Track 6: Iemand slaat een paar gitaarsnaren aan, een paar Engelse woorden zijn te herkennen in het gemummel, wat sloom gekras van andere instrumenten. Track 7: het geluid van een raceauto op een Commodore 64, en Stephen Hawking die een Big Mac bestelt. Track 8: een kleuter vertelt een verhaaltje. Track 9: een slechte imitatie van Jean-Michel Jarre. Track 10: een eng muziekje uit de TV-serie van Robin Hood, met radiogebabbel ertussendoor. Track 11: onverstaanbare mensen aan de telefoon. Track 12: storing. Track 13: het optreden van een punkbandje, met als zanger de boer uit Shaun 't Schaap, opgenomen vanaf de achterkant van het podium. Ik hoop dat dit inderdaad het laatste verslag was.

Ok, eerlijk is eerlijk. Het boek heet ook gewoon '1001 albums' en niet '1001 muziekalbums'.

Het begint veelbelovend met een soort computerachtige matrixprinter. Ik mag hopen dat er iets meer muziek in gaat komen, anders gaat dit een hele zware dobber worden. Nummer twee klinkt alsof de jengelende zanger geraakt is door een steen. Oh wacht, zo heet het nummer ook. De tering zeg, dit valt echt in de categorie Pere Ubu. AB/7A is het enige 'normale' nummer zo te horen. Mijn Brabantse luistermaat had dit zowaar bijna 5 sterren gegeven. Ik ben niet boos, ik ben zelfs niet teleurgesteld. Ik moet alleen maar heel hard lachen. Er staan tegenwoordig geen datums meer bij zo te zien, dus ik weet niet zeker of het een 1-april grap was. Hoe hard ik het ook probeer, dit soort 'muziek' is niet aan mij besteed. En dan sta ik er nog voor open ook, ik heb het aandachtig helemaal uitgeluisterd. Alsnog kan ik weinig anders dan 1 ster geven.

Terrible day to have ears.

This album is psychotic.

I couldn't not even a little bit. Sigh. I am trying to be open but didn't get it. Something for everyone.

As album it is punk as meant to be, for me personally no appeal

If I could give it 0 stars, I would.

I made it up until Hamburger Lady, so about half way through. Definitely more of an art piece than what I would consider music. Did not like it all and not interested in listening to it again. one star.

Conceptually interesting. Practically unlistenable. I feel that if you were there, listening to this live, it would be an incredible experience. Transcendental. But just listening to the music on my morning walk... Yeah it's tough.

Clearly the worst album on this list. Not that I'm against experimental music, I most certainly am not, but this is anti-music, both in execution and in ethos. Genesis P-Orridge gives me the heebie jeebies, and the whole pandrogeny thing is beyond creepy and weird (derogatory). Terrible music for and by terrible people. No redeeming qualities.

This was an unnecessary contribution to the world.

This one scared me. I actually really liked some of the sounds on here, but there were just as many sounds that I was not a fan of. It was creative, but maybe too much so. While I appreciated this, and was proud to have listened to the whole thing, I just did not like the way it made me feel. Probably won’t be listening to it again anytime soon

The lowest-rated album on the list! Excellent! I'll probably love it! Edit: Nah.

I once went for a free gig at an underground venue where I would volunteer sometimes, pulling pints and that shite. The band, an electronica threesome, took to the stage and began their speil: "Some eyes see the truth" He paused for well over 30 seconds. Someone coughed. "some eyes see under..." He pulled away from the mic to breathe in. Quick as a goth on a roller coaster he pressed his lips firmly against the mic and grunt-bellowed "ZOMBIE EYESSSSSSSS" before the band started playing something like track 5 off this album. All that to say, Throbbing Gristle have irreparably damaged this planet. The root cause of 9 / 11 was this album. Probably.

horrible, unlistenable, not even music

I guess experimental music just isn't for me. I’m no expert and I really struggled to enjoy these tracks. The opening songs practically gave me a migraine. While a few tracks like 'AB/7A' worked as decent instrumentals, the rest just felt like subliminal noise echoing in my eardrums.

toilet sounds etc music doesn’t have to be pleasant to listen to. it can be difficult, abrasive, off-putting, unsettling, or any number of other things. the problem with this album isn’t that it’s unpleasant or discordant. it’s just not very good

nah

A solid wall of fart noises would have been more enjoyable to listen to.

I like industrial music but this is honestly utter garbage

Just sounded like noise

I didn’t doubt this album’s placement as the worst album on this project, but now I understand. When my Finch app asks me for what I’m grateful for today, I will write that I’m grateful I know and appreciate good music because it is not this.

Just noise. That's all this was. What a waste of time.

Sucks

What the fuck. That was not music.

It's like listening to a drunk person falling over in a data centre. Absolute waste of my time. 0 stars would be generous

Not everything here is music — dudes talking and shuffling papers doesn’t count. But it’s not the worst thing on this list. I’m tempted to give it a 2, out of spite, because I know the “artists” want to be exceptionally irritating. But it’s really not an album you’d play through more than once, if you got that far. Plus, i just had to rate an Eric Clapton album higher than i woukd gave liked, so no grade inflation is allowed here. It’s a 1.

Just, no. This had no structure at all - I truly do not understand why anyone would willingly listen to this.

What do you do while you listen to this? Stare at a wall?

I usually never skip tracks when listening to a record, but I skipped so many here. I can respect what they were trying to go for. This was not for me, and it doesn't have to be. Favourite Track(s): AB/7A Least Favourite Track(s): I.B.M., Weeping, Walls of Sound, Hometime

Best Song: None. Worst Song: All. Overall: I fucking hate this. Music that is so purposeless, scattered, and directionless that it sounds accidental, yet is somehow made all the worse through the knowledge that this actually is intentional. What I'm hearing is what they wanted. This isn't unapproachable in the sense that it is hard to get past initial barriers to appreciate some sophisticated internal something, this is unapproachable because there's nothing to approach. It is all noise, obscuring nothing. This has the aesthetic value of a pit mine. This is the ugliness of industrialization. This is useful only as a reminder that we, as humanity, have lost our way. We cannot allow ourselves to live in a world that sounds like this.

Idt I’m enough of an intellectual for this

This was awful. Just random noises with no musicality

look i'm not going to listen to list, fuck you, i'm rating it a 1 so it doesnt feel like something i have to get to eventually

Nope!! Everything deserves a score. .1 Can’t enter that so I will try to give a zero if I can. Otherwise 1

Didn't get this.

A bit too experimental for my taste

Ummmm…

Altså, jeg kommer nok ikke til at høre det igen ...

Not even music

Er, big no.

It's Easter today. Jesus died for whatever abomination I just listened to. This is like a Brian Eno fever dream. Zero stars.

Yeah, it’s pretty bad bad not good

Intolerable!

everybody make some noise 1

I know art should explore themes like this and make possibly make you feel uncomfortable. And, in that regard, I would have been more interested in this album in a museum of other arty context. Just listening to it, it was a hard one.

I did not get this. Unsure on what I was conveying. Lots of random noise

What could I say that’s hasn’t already been said. 1 star.

Because I can't give it a 0

Not for me

My wife walked in and said "what the hell are you listening to?"during the first track. Very dissident style of music. Very progressive for the time frame and probably did help other bands find their voice. I liked it more and more I listened to it. Top songs Ab/7a Weeping 4.5/10

Never heard of album or band. First song is weird. Kept expecting it to start but it’s just mic feedback the whole time. Didn’t feel like a real song. Hit by a rock is more of a song but still weird. Bullshit lyrics. Valley is a TikTok with no visuals. I have no clue what I’m listening to rn this is not music. Title track is actually a song which is cool. Again it just never picks up. 6 minutes of weirdness. Finally some lyrics on weeping. Terrible voice. Mid lyrics. One positive I will say is that it’s good music to work to. Not distracting in the least. Sounds like normal outdoor sounds. Again I asked who gave the green light on the remaster. Why do I kind of like AB/7A?? Again great work music. This one is really well produced. Sounds like a real song. I’m glad I didn’t bail out. Just because of this one song. Écoli is back to bullshit. Ready to be done again. Last 2 songs more of the same. Glad it’s over. The one song kept it from .5 for trying zone. 1.2 stars.

Excellent music to listen to while in the woods, at night, with your friends, tripping on LSD. Otherwise, I'm just not sure when I would listen to this.

I've been looking forward to this record since I started this project. It seems sort of legendary for its seeming ability to be almost universally despised by the reviewers on this site, and I'll be honest, I wanted to see if the reviews were fair. I suspected that it was largely a record that people misunderstood, and that there were probably many redeemable qualities to it. Nope. I was wrong. People seem to understand this record perfectly fine. I actually think that this record had to have been predicated on a prank by the band to be inflicted on the audience. It truly sucks. I like some weird, avant garde stuff from time to time, but this really isn't that. This is just audio dogshit, most of which doesn't really involve any real level of musicality. It's pretty rare that I'll rate something at a 1-star. For me, for a record to warrant a 1-star rating, it has to fail to meet the basic criteria of being musical, or I have to think that it's so bad that I can't understand why anyone would record it in the first place. This Throbbing Gristle record checks both those boxes for me. 1/10

Truly just unlistenable noise.

Awful. Barely qualifies as music

Imagine you’re working for an international spy organization, and you have captured a terrorist who knows the codes to disarm the nuclear weapons hidden in major cities throughout the globe. The clear answer to this trolley problem is that you’ll ignore the Geneva Convention and do whatever it takes to extract the information from the terrorist to save humanity. Rather than waterboarding, which will ruin this perfectly good carpet, you play Throbbing Gristle on repeat until they crack. I was ready to confess to crimes that I never committed just to make it stop. In short, this album is a human rights violation.

I hated this album.

No no no

A truly grating listening experience. The "songs" on this album were one of two things: a mishmash of earraping noises or a muffled recording of someone talking slapped onto a repetitive beat. I will give it one thing: it did sound pretty haunting at times. Intentionally or not, I did enjoy those bits, even though it was literally just two tracks (Hamburger Lady and Hometime). This is now two for two on British albums being one star. Coincidence? Favorite Track: Hamburger Lady

1, what was this

Why are these weird, no talent albums on here? Just because they are eclectic?

This album made me feel so on edge. Anyone who says they like this is a psychopath.

not for me

Makes me want to bump up other albums I have rated 1 star!

Terrible

At the time of writing, this is the lowest rated album on here. "How bad could it be?" I thought. It was that bad.

41 mins of my life i never get back Never again

Younger me would have lapped this up, older me puts it in the pretentious arty bollocks category. AB/7A is a standout (for good reasons).

An album I would not have listened to without this list. But I will surely never listen to this terrible noises again. 0 stars

nauseating and repetitive.

This is probably the only review I'm making on this website because this album certainly makes me wanna put some kind of sense ino my reaction. If we take into consideration what the artistic vision of the group is, I guess you could make the case that it is supposed to sound the way it sounds, and maybe I don't have the knowledge or intelligence to understand the art within. But to me, this sounds like an album made by the CIA to torture all the minorities they could find in Third World countries and induce a nationwide collective hysteria, which I guess, is what they were aiming for?

Hi can someone please explain to me what the actual fuck?

What the F is this shit!

Noise. Just noise

#862. I get it that industrial music is supposed to be anti-music to some degree, and that is the point, but still though this isn't really interesting at all to me. Avant garde nonsense in any form of art just seems stupid to me. 1/5: dumb

Fascinating, but nothing I would want to listen to again in the near future ... or ever again.

Aaarrrrrgggg!!!!!

Is this really music? Because I would just call it noise. It seems to live up to being the lowest rated album on the list.

If I could give it 0 stars, I would. Idk what its doing on this list.

Ass

Call it performance art maybe, but half the time it wasn't music.

Nearly every track was unlistenable noise. Painful.

It's sad they didn't make it. Rest In Peace.

Atonal & amelodic.

The first few tracks aren’t even songs, in that they lack any rhythm or melody. The back half of the album at least has songs, but they’re still terrible.

This makes me kind of philosophical. At what point do you call random noises "music"? I don't have the answer, but I suspect this doesn't always reach that point. It may have been influential, but I'm not sure I want to hear the results.

Horrendous.

jesus my ears hurt

are you taking the piss?

God help you if this was the first album you got

Nearly every track was unlistenable noise. Painful.

Muy alternativo para mi gusto

This might have been a hit for me, I like the idea of "nonsensical" ambient noise like that but this just didn't hit the spot. It was a thin line to walk and it didn't make it.

You'd have to argue pretty hard that this is music at all.

That's not music. That's insulting.

Wow, this is the lowest rated albums on here. Not looking forward to it. It's another case of "this is the first of a genre, so it must be on this list." Just because you CAN make something doesn't mean you should, or that it should be recommended to you 50 years later. I will tolerate this nonsense out of composers, not this. 1* IBM: I was inside of my modem I usually will power through all the garbage here, but this time I can't. I stopped at the start of the 3rd track. I just can't. My ears don't deserve this.

I lasted three “songs”, which is three more than I should have.

Do not like industrial music

cannot get through -- way too experimental "industrial music"

Noise music just isn't my bag.

I definitely did not need to hear this one

Would have given zero stars if I could. Literally mostly just noise.

If it wasn’t boring, it was offensive to my ears. Some songs would be recording machine monologues and others screechy unsettling tones. 1 star

This might have been groundbreaking or influential at the time and/or artistically challenging but it was boring and didn’t interest me

I have a 15 minute rule. If I've listened for 15 minutes and not a single listenable song has played yet, I'm turning it off. Gave it an honest try.....I understand one of the top rated reviews on this but I would much rather listen to Kanye West or Beyoncé over this (whats his fucking damage??)

Vraiment pas non genre ces trucs expérimentaux

not music... i wanna say straight bullshit but i guess this is art too

Umm no. Just no. So much no.

No.

Hoo boy. It is exceptionally easy to just blast this album and one-star it. I'm tempted. Art house rock/prog rock/Brit post-punk/et cetera is my least favorite trash in the world. If I have to say something nice, it's that even Trent Reznor credits them with pioneering industrial rock, and they were doing this analog, which is admittedly impressive. It's just so deeply weird in an unpleasant way. Influence 3. Quality 1. Hits 1. Intangibles 2. Never again 1.

I hated this. It was just noise. I would give it zero stars if I could. Awful.

Great, an album full of random noise

Unpleasant noise. And what’s with the creepo album cover? Jeezus.

This one is a little too weird for me

Not for me

I am currently naming this album the uncontested winner of the most consistently unpleasing sounds thus far throughout an entire recording. I've only in about 20 albums now but I'm confident that they will own this title for an elongated period. If you enjoy this you are unusual being a with taste for the macabre

Inspirational I'm sure.

First listen Saved 0/13

Gear: 64 Audio Duo Artwork: 👧📻📸 Production (Remastered): 🔪💩😖 Music: 📢😵‍💫𖡎 Rating: 💀/5

Was zum Geier ist hier los, Was ist das für ein SOund.. Auweia

Why does this exist...

1,5/5

Throbbing Gristle – D.O.A. D.O.A. is less of a musical album and more of a psychological endurance test. After a week defined by high-level musicianship and beautiful production, this record feels like a total rejection of everything that makes music worth listening to. It is an "absolute grievance" of a project—a collection of abrasive noise, disturbing tape loops, and cold, mechanical static that offers zero emotional or melodic payoff. While historians might argue for its importance in creating the "Industrial" genre, the actual listening experience is physically repulsive and sonically hollow. It stands as a reminder that being "provocative" or "experimental" doesn't always result in something that deserves to be heard. If giving an album a zero was a feature of this platform I would wholeheartedly. 1/5

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What a piece of shit “album”.

Uh… sure! I’m sure with a whole lot of context this album would be really really cool and transcendent but it just sounds like liminal space but in audio form. i’m also not an electronic music person so it just doesn’t resonate with me

I have mixed feelings on this one. I believe good music should make you feel things. While listening to this album with headphones in a room by myself, I did feel things. Unfortunately none of them were even remotely good things. Not sure what the band was going for here, but I hated it.