One of the most terrifying and original releases of all time. Suicide contains a fear and darkness that the most angry of metal bands fail to capture, despite their attempts.

Frankie Teardrop scares me, but overall a good alum

I like the repetitive nature of the music but am I the only one to find Frankie Teardrop funny?

Scary scary music. Frankie Teardrop was terrifying the first time I heard it. The screams were so real and so unexpected.

God I am addicted to this lately, I love the impenetrable dark atmosphere of Che and the screams on Frankie. The deeper in you go the better this gets

Suicide were a band who had emerged in New York during the early 1970s but came to prominence during the new wave period with the release of their self-titled masterpiece (and one of rock's all-time masterpieces) in 1977.

The album conjures up a sonic intensity of stark minimilism that is breathtakingly original and highly influential.

Whilst many of their generation were producing angular 'punk' rhythms, Suicide were perfecting a series of seemingly endless modulations whose underpinnings echoed a sinister and nuerotic rockabilly.

On the surface their sound constituted of little more than minimilist reverb, but in reality was a work of profound 'sculpted' intellectual and hallucegenic complexity that remains as fresh and original as the day of its release.

The album actually points to a kind of apocolyptic hell reminiscent of the imagery of Nick Cave minus the latters soulful redemption.

Vega and Rev depict a bleak, icy and desolate urban landscape of nuerosis, longing and self-destruction.

The imagery of their art is probably Lower East Side, New York - a place where the seediness of the city permeates the mind of the 'atomized' loner as he sits in a colourless empty apartment looking out upon the bleakest of New York skylines - an horizon of blanket slate grey.

The music of Suicide is a metaphor for urban contamination and inner madness. The sound is unsettling, primitive but beautiful. It's a vision of urban sleeze and decay - an existential and relentless paranoia al a 'Taxi Driver', a ghostly atmosphere that was conjured up in a similar way by the Velvet Underground a decade earlier.

The centrepiece of the album is 'Frankie Teardrop', the ultimate nightmare, a kind of hyper-sinister 'Sister Ray'. This is arguably the most daring, unsettlingly, dizzying and maniacal 10 minutes of sustained drama and tension ever translated to rock music.

Vega's final refrain, "We are all Frankies lying in hell" is truelly scary, an industrial nightmare in which the 'quivering' and stuttering participant appears to be unable to awake from.

'Suicide' is a work of immense ambition whose imagery is stark and whose visions are nightmarish. Above all, it is a work of beauty which ranks as one of the greatest artistic achievements of all time.

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The screams on 'Frankie Teardrop'...wow