Worst Records (you have owned at some point in your life)

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The Clash - Cut the Crap (1985)
Drake - Thank Me Later (2010)
The Others - The Others (2005)
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music (1975)
Our Lady Peace - Clumsy (1997)

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there's a decemberists record i got as a gift lying around here somewhere

The Our Lady Peace and Drake albums where given as gifts to me. I think the people who gave them to me hate me. I gave them Sharknado in bluray as a christmas gift in return.

I barely remember a thing about it, and I'm still not sure how I acquired it, but I remember it being TERRIBLE!

Big Void - The Floor or the Other Side of the Room (1997)

The Our Lady Peace and Drake albums where given as gifts to me.

Was this some kind of Canadian exchange program?

The Our Lady Peace and Drake albums where given as gifts to me.

Was this some kind of Canadian exchange program?

― Johnny Fever

Hahaha it was from an awkward acquaintance that doesn't listen to any rock music and had a crush on me. He normally listens to Ranchera/grupera/norteña/latin music. I guess he picked the first 'rock' album that the troll clerk gave him.

I actually felt bad about it because the minute he gave it to me I couldn't hide my disappointment.

Nuclear Valdez - Dream another Dream
*bought for a few dollars at the grocery store in high school, my friends and i swore it was haunted it was like there were subliminal voices chanting underneath the music it kinda freaked us out

Def Leppard - Adrenalize

Dave Navarro - Trust No One
* seriously this is the worst ~Thing~, not just the worst Record

Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy

Iron Maiden - Virtual XI

Bush - Sixteen Stone
*given as a birthday gift by a friend who SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER

I love that there's some clerk helping a guy try to impress a girl with a nearly two decades-old Our Lady Peace album. If you can't have fun being a dick once in a while, why work at the record store?

Holy shit, I haven't thought about Nuclear Valdez since probably the last time I saw one of their videos on MTV.

Sometimes I feel that record stores only exist nowadays with the purpose of being disappointing gift stores.

Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music (1975)

this is a brilliant record, both aurally and conceptually

glad to have you on board treeship, there are no bad albums on yr planet i get it

Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music (1975)
this is a brilliant record, both aurally and conceptually

― Treeship

If the concept is 'fuck you if you're listening' it's brilliant. In Lou's own words:

"Anyone who gets to side four is dumber than I am."
- Lou Reed

It's a great album to tell people it's time to stop drinking and get the fuck out of your house at 5 am though.

Oh I also have this one but because I have almost all their discography:

Sonic Youth - NYC Ghosts & Flowers (2000)

Not one of the worst records ever but certainly one of the worst in my collection.

you have shitty taste

For owning it or for not liking it?

I love how it sounds at certain points and bad Sonic Youth is better than most bands but everyone involved feels so knackered. It's as if the band said "ok, here's the record we owe you, can we go home now please?"

at one time I would have told you that was their best record since daydream nation but i haven't listened to it or them in so long that i just don't know anymore.

absolute worst record I still own:

Styx - Kilroy Was Here

I can enjoy the morbid horror of that one for about 5 minutes at a time, but after that I'm done

i doubt they were as tired as your opinions. xxp

i'm pretty sure this is the worst record i own:

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-1038998-1187120917.jpeg

It's not awful. The trick that makes me like it better is the same I use for Radiohead's Amnesiac. I think of it as a collection of B-sides from the previous album (A thousand leaves, Kid A) and it makes it much more tolerable, even genius.

Also I wasn't really asking for your opinion. I hate those maybe you dont, fine whatever. Just asking for the worst records you think you have in your collection. This is not a worst records of all time discussion. I wouldn't even nominate that SY record as the worst ever. You really think I'd rather listen to, I don't know, Staind than that Sonic Youth album?

If it were a choice between Staind and NYCGAF, I'd run away quickly.

i have a ringo star album that i haven't played

i have a picture disc of the little big man "soundtrack" that's mostly just dustin hoffman talking. i was massively disappointed, the actual soundtrack to that movie is pretty cool. Mike bloomfield and john hammond jr.

Similarly I've got a record of RAF aircraft that I was hoping was just going to be lots of horrible engine noises, but no, it's mostly some old buffer doing tedious airshow-style commentary for three minutes followed by 10 seconds of NEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWMMMMMMMMMMMM

"Anyone who gets to side four is dumber than I am."
- Lou Reed

side four is my favorite. i r a moran.

i can't really think of what the worst album in my collection would be. there's definitely some stuff that's painful to listen to -- skronky free improv, etc.

looking through my itunes: i have a dayglo abortions comp that's pretty bad. and the album by "pop etc" (the pop band that the morning benders mutated into) is a drag except for one song.

Ive never heard metal machine music... But how can it be so so bad if it's just noise?? Noise rules.

don't ask me what the titles were but apart from styx it would be stuff like:

flesh for lulu (80s glam-goth nonsense)
placebo (90s glam-goth nonsense)
the alarm (anthemic welsh folk-rock drivel)
runrig (anthemic scottish folk-rock drivel)
secret affair (like four paul weller simulacra made out of grey pastry)

I make a point where if a film or album is bad, I will still get to the end because often the ending will put things into perspective.

The album I disliked most would be Gideon Gaye, it stared off quite nice but never seemed to change, and by the last track I was hoping for a swift resolution. But, its a 15 min track that goes on and on oh woe..

Bruce Gilbert's "In Esse" is similar to MMM, I'd have hated it if I'd paid full price but it sort-of amused me. (I have paid full price for MMM, in fact I recently bought the DVD-a version. Yes, noise rules, a bit anyway)

The actual worst would be "Taco of Death" by Extra Hot Sauce. Some funny thrash cover versions of Paranoid and Free Bird, the rest was dumb songs about AIDS which would have almost been funny-offensive if it was VD or something. Never buy records you hear in shops while stoned, kiddies!

clumsy is a great record

think my list would be something like

muse: absolution
orgy: vapour transmission (there's a chance this is actually good but i remember finding it uneven as a kid which isn't a good sign, plus the lyrics are awful "here are some cool futuristic buzz words smashed together"
korn: follow the leader (will rep for the korn s/t and issues. this has a fred durst duet on it. first three songs are fire though)
the offspring: americana
limp bizkit: significant other
bush: sixteen stone

after that idk, maybe the savage garden s/t? but i kinda like that record

Oh I also has that Offspring and Orgy records I think. the offspring was borrowed and I never gave it back, someone else ended up borrowing it as well and I never cared to claim it.

Is that the Orgy album with the Blue Monday cover? If so I remember buying it for that song only (this was before knowing New Order existed, I was maybe 13) besides that I remember Stitches was a decent single. The rest sounded like a mess to me and I never played it.

Had not has.

Candyass was the one with the Blue Monday cover.

I know I bought a Bomb 20 album at some point and The Brotherhood - Elementalz album, really shitty UK rappers who are probably FLT drivers now.

Oh, your band-name-with-a-number post reminded me I once owned an Apollo 440 album strictly because one song featured a Van Halen sample. That was pretty rotten.

"stitches" is a great single. on vapour transmission they became explicitly new wave. not sure the songwriting lived up to it but i should revisit it one day

I have Bass is Base's Memories of the Soulshack Survivors, treacly pop-R&B for kids. I have Edwin's first album.

The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
The Pastels - Up for a Bit With the Pastels
Pop Will Eat Itself - Box Frenzy

I don't own any of these anymore, all purged a long time ago.

Bruce Gilbert's "In Esse" is similar to MMM, I'd have hated it if I'd paid full price but it sort-of amused me. (I have paid full price for MMM, in fact I recently bought the DVD-a version. Yes, noise rules, a bit anyway)

I've got this album too.

This a very difficult question to answer btw.

I once owned an Apollo 440 album strictly because one song featured a Van Halen sample. That was pretty rotten.

haha.
i love this album.
and the rest of the bands catalogue.
tacky beyond belief, but so much fun.

Lightning Seeds - Dizzy Heights
Supernaturals album with the monkey on it

both were presents. both are beyond terrible.

I went to see TV Smith play in around 2003 he was selling copies of his new solo album from a stall after the gig, I bought a copy partially because I felt guilty not buying one and partially because I was still on a high from the excitement of the show, I think that several of the worst records I've owned have been bought under similar circumstances

I remember the album being terrible but to be honest I probably only listened to it once, although I still have it somewhere

I went to see TV Smith play in around 2003 he was selling copies of his new solo album from a stall after the gig, I bought a copy partially because I felt guilty not buying one and partially because I was still on a high from the excitement of the show, I think that several of the worst records I've owned have been bought under similar circumstances

umm was that the 'all the young children are on crack' album that came out on domino albeit under "television personalities" persona ?

cos i dont think i have ever been able to make it beyond 5 mins of that album ..

You mean "My Dark Places"? That was indeed a HORRIBLE album, but nothing to do with TV Smith.

TV Smith is the guy from the Adverts, I think you are thinking of Dan Treacy? the 'all the young children are on crack' album is v good imo

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/44/My_Dark_Places_%28album%29.jpg/220px-My_Dark_Places_%28album%29.jpg

the specials

i have loads and loads of substandard dance music

lots of half-assed reggae and dancehall too

ahh .. wine infused confusion !
apologies.
will dig out the 'young children .. ' album and give it another go.

I shoplifted a copy of 'Let's Face It' by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones when I was a teenager after getting really into the Specials, the Selecter and 2 Tone stuff and thinking I should try some contemporary ska, it was the first thing I had ever stolen and it was awful, I spent weeks obsessively worrying that I was somehow going to be apprehended for shoplifting and resenting this crappy album more and more

I like that Television Personalities album!

soref, the obvious thing to do was to smuggle it back into the shop

I never bought a copy of MMM but I bet it wouldn't even have been the worst Lou Reed album I'd ever owned. Blue Mask, Growing Up In Public, and the unbearable dreck-fest that was New York....

I love Growing Up In Public . I like all his albums, I've never heard Mistrial though.

Oh, what was that reunion "Specials" album, around 1995 or so.

Dis-a-point-ing.

Take The Holiday Train by the Duke Ellington Orchestra under the leadership of Mercer Ellington. It'd be a mighty bland recording by any standard--stunted sound quality, bored sounding musicians playing lame charts--but attaching Duke's name makes it downright obnoxious.

i own a copy of the album of demos that christina aguilera put out in 2001 (just be free). it is the worst album i own by a mile.

New York? Well I wouldn't go that far, but I still would play "I love you Suzanne" in preference any day..

I have a Coltrane live in Stockholm '63 (iirc) with McCoy Tyner going 'wheeeee, wheeee, wheeeee, wheeee, wheeeeee, wheeeeeeee' most of the way through it, making it a very tough listen.

Close to the Edge by Yes.

i bought the rednex album on a school trip to Germany when i was about 13. even my young, undiscerning self realised quickly that it wasn't even worth the comedy value.

in adult life, i'm ready to give the Beach Boys the benefit of the doubt through most of their career but that 1985 s/t album is reaching quite a bit.

Three Dollar Bill Y'all by Limp Bizkit. I was only fifteen but I'm still deeply ashamed

i take it back, this orgy album's pretty okay! lead single is still >>>>>> the record itself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NczLNctogZk

for context i now kind of think this album is a much less good mechanical animals

essentially i'm wondering if ned's ever heard it

Any Doors album.

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