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
― Moka, Thursday, 27 November 2014 06:27 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Moka, Thursday, 27 November 2014 06:34 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Moka, Thursday, 27 November 2014 06:39 (nine years ago) link
you have shitty taste
― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Thursday, 27 November 2014 06:42 (nine years ago) link
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?"
― Moka, Thursday, 27 November 2014 06:45 (nine years ago) link
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
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 27 November 2014 06:47 (nine years ago) link
I can enjoy the morbid horror of that one for about 5 minutes at a time, but after that I'm done
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 27 November 2014 06:48 (nine years ago) link
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
― languagelessness (mattresslessness), Thursday, 27 November 2014 06:49 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Moka, Thursday, 27 November 2014 06:50 (nine years ago) link
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?
― Moka, Thursday, 27 November 2014 06:59 (nine years ago) link
If it were a choice between Staind and NYCGAF, I'd run away quickly.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 November 2014 07:00 (nine years ago) link
i have a ringo star album that i haven't played
― Treeship, Thursday, 27 November 2014 07:04 (nine years ago) link
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.
― brimstead, Thursday, 27 November 2014 07:08 (nine years ago) link
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
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 27 November 2014 07:19 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Westing (By Musket Anne Sexton) (get bent), Thursday, 27 November 2014 07:23 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Westing (By Musket Anne Sexton) (get bent), Thursday, 27 November 2014 07:26 (nine years ago) link
Ive never heard metal machine music... But how can it be so so bad if it's just noise?? Noise rules.
― brimstead, Thursday, 27 November 2014 07:37 (nine years ago) link
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)
― john wahey (NickB), Thursday, 27 November 2014 07:37 (nine years ago) link
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!
― Mark G, Thursday, 27 November 2014 07:38 (nine years ago) link
clumsy is a great record
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:07 (nine years ago) link
think my list would be something like
muse: absolutionorgy: 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: americanalimp bizkit: significant otherbush: sixteen stone
after that idk, maybe the savage garden s/t? but i kinda like that record
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Moka, Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:20 (nine years ago) link
Had not has.
Candyass was the one with the Blue Monday cover.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
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.
― xelab, Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:24 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:26 (nine years ago) link
"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
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
I have Bass is Base's Memories of the Soulshack Survivors, treacly pop-R&B for kids. I have Edwin's first album.
― jmm, Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:40 (nine years ago) link
The Mars Volta - Frances the MuteThe Pastels - Up for a Bit With the PastelsPop Will Eat Itself - Box Frenzy
I don't own any of these anymore, all purged a long time ago.
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 27 November 2014 15:50 (nine years ago) link
I've got this album too.
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:57 (nine years ago) link
This a very difficult question to answer btw.
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 November 2014 16:58 (nine years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Thursday, 27 November 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
Lightning Seeds - Dizzy HeightsSupernaturals album with the monkey on it
both were presents. both are beyond terrible.
― kinder, Thursday, 27 November 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
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
― soref, Thursday, 27 November 2014 20:38 (nine years ago) link
I remember the album being terrible but to be honest I probably only listened to it once, although I still have it somewhere
― soref, Thursday, 27 November 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
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 ..
― mark e, Thursday, 27 November 2014 20:51 (nine years ago) link
You mean "My Dark Places"? That was indeed a HORRIBLE album, but nothing to do with TV Smith.
― everything, Thursday, 27 November 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link
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
― soref, Thursday, 27 November 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
the specials
― the late great, Thursday, 27 November 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
i have loads and loads of substandard dance music
lots of half-assed reggae and dancehall too
― the late great, Thursday, 27 November 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
ahh .. wine infused confusion ! apologies.will dig out the 'young children .. ' album and give it another go.
― mark e, Thursday, 27 November 2014 21:05 (nine years ago) link
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
― soref, Thursday, 27 November 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link
I like that Television Personalities album!
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Thursday, 27 November 2014 21:10 (nine years ago) link
soref, the obvious thing to do was to smuggle it back into the shop
― sosmix klopp (NickB), Thursday, 27 November 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link
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....
― Fine Toothcomb (sonofstan), Thursday, 27 November 2014 21:36 (nine years ago) link
I love Growing Up In Public . I like all his albums, I've never heard Mistrial though.
― Letsby Avenue (Tom D.), Thursday, 27 November 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
Oh, what was that reunion "Specials" album, around 1995 or so.
Dis-a-point-ing.
― Mark G, Thursday, 27 November 2014 21:42 (nine years ago) link
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.
― uhwelluh, Friday, 28 November 2014 02:20 (nine years ago) link
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.
― dyl, Friday, 28 November 2014 03:36 (nine years ago) link
New York? Well I wouldn't go that far, but I still would play "I love you Suzanne" in preference any day..
― Mark G, Friday, 28 November 2014 07:37 (nine years ago) link
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.
― MaresNest, Friday, 28 November 2014 08:19 (nine years ago) link
Close to the Edge by Yes.
― rising stones cross (anagram), Friday, 28 November 2014 08:37 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Friday, 28 November 2014 10:58 (nine years ago) link
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
― paolo, Friday, 28 November 2014 11:21 (nine years ago) link
i take it back, this orgy album's pretty okay! lead single is still >>>>>> the record itself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NczLNctogZk
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 28 November 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
for context i now kind of think this album is a much less good mechanical animals
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 28 November 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
essentially i'm wondering if ned's ever heard it
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Friday, 28 November 2014 20:06 (nine years ago) link
Any Doors album.
― Jazzbo, Friday, 28 November 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
eiffel 65
― katherine, Friday, 28 November 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link