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
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.
― 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