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

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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 Heights
Supernaturals 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

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 ..

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.

Piss-Up Artist (dog latin), Friday, 28 November 2014 10:58 (nine years ago) link

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


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