Personal 5 Worst of all Time

anything that's really rub has already been sold so unless I can remember shall not contribute meself.

1. Blur -- "Blur"
2. Oasis -- "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants"
3. Pixies -- "Trompe le Monde"
4. Neil Young -- "Trans"
5. Fatboy Slim -- "Between The Gutter and the Stars"

The worst I've ever owned/had:

- SEE YOU IN HELL by Grim Reaper
- GIVE OUT BUT DON'T GIVE UP by Primal Scream
- YES, PLEASE by Happy Mondays
- REVERBERATION by Echo & the Bunnymen
- MASQUE by the Mission (UK)

and hey--I didn't even mention Unrest!

* = promo record/i didn't buy it

Roger Waters - "The Pros And Cons Of Hitch-Hiking"
Van Morrison - "Astral Weeks"
Hefner - "I Love The City"
The Wonder Stuff - "Never Loved Elvis"
Spearmint - "Oklahoma"

(This last a bit arbitrary cos I can see it from where I'm sitting)

I'm floored.

in a good way or in a bad way.

jale, veruca salt ep, recent luna, maladjusted, what's the story morning glory... some of the crap in my stacks that will never be listened to again and that nobody will buy off me.

it would be interesting to collate this list.

Offspring - Americana
Lou Reed - New York
Primal Scream - Screamadelica*
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime*
Smashing Pumpkins - Machina : The Machines Of God*

(* I like the occasional track from these, but As Albums? Erk.)

I just dont feel the love. Beisdes the album seen them live in small clubs twice and all I keep thinking is this isn't as good as Smile was. Everyone raves about them, Ian still records albums well but that album was horrid.

Christ that alubms dreadful.

It's hard to think of an album I still own that I actually hate. I used to have an Inspiral Carpets album, and that would be pretty close to the top of the list. I'm sure there have to be some good Sex Pistols live albums out there, but I've bought two and they were both awful.

Here's 5 of the worst I've ever owned :

Primal Scream : XTRMNTR
The Cure : The Top
Belle and Sebastian - Boy with the Arab Strap
Primal Scream : Echo Dek
Neil Young - Decade

except astrals weeks obv that sux major ass

HIGH VOLTAGE by Ac/Dc is a farkin' CLASSIC!

1) baby please don't go
2) she's got balls
3) little lover
4) stick around
5) soul stripper
6) you ain't got a hold on me
7) love song
8) show business

where is the song called 'high voltage' that you would presume to be on this album?! (where is tnt? where is long way to the top?) why is the first track a cover? why is it all so PLODDING?! the woman in 'love song' is called Jean! i know what good ac/dc sounds like and this ain't it.

*weeps*

this isn't allowed! like all of it dammit!

BOO TO THAT.

You guys are lucky -- your worst of all time are for the most part mediocre, innocuous and in some cases stuff that I'm weird enough to like (XTRMNTR! WRD T YR MTHR). My five worst of all time have come in my ongoing stint as a demo reviewer. Imagine bands that haven't quite grasped all the essential intricacies needed to churn out shitty nu-metal, whiny emo or avant-garde nonsense, but play shitty nu-metal, whiny emo and avant-garde nonsense nonetheless. The results are so hamfisted that if they punched me in the mouth I'd be breaking kosher laws. And I can't even any money for selling their shit to used CD stores! Argh.

My five worst, then, even though you've never heard of them and will never hear of them again:

1) Goatease, The Goatease Chain Tape
2) This Revolution, Dufus*
3) Aunt Beaph, 2000 AB
4) Tulip Sweet and her Trail of Tears, Touched
5) The G. Gordon Liddys, Steak On A Kaiser

All of these bands have one thing in common: they try to be funny and/or artsy, and they fail. Fail fail fail fail FAIL.

*actually the band could be called "Dufus" and This Revolution could be the title. They never really made that clear.

but ned... after fade to gray it really does all fade to gray!!

(i do wonder whether i made the right choice... this is after all coming from someone who owns 'fashion nugget' by cake)

it is pretty bad, though!

The first four for being joyless, sludgey and generally lacking in fun or emotion or any sort. The last for being a crushing disappointment in that I was expecting Elvis and got some third-rate impersonator.

?

Its still the worst rawk album I own. Nothing on it works for me or makes wanna listen to it, dance to it or say anything good about it.

if this kind of stuff is the worst you have ever heard/owned then you simply have not heard or owned enough albums. You should try publishing a music fanzine, then you will get the good bad stuff. Of course it hard to remember sometimes because you don't usually listen to it all that much. But is you hate the stuff above so much either you have an agenda or just simply bad taste.

Black Lab - Your Body Above Me (Bowie-damaged alt-glam-rock)
Crimpshrine - Duct Tape Soup ("seminal" East Bay punk rock equals tuneless unlistenable crapola)
Experimental Audio Research - Millennium Music (Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3 in boring improvisational noise dreck)
Gordon (self-titled) (a major-label producer's pet project, which can only mean overproduced underwritten soulless pop)
Primitive Radio Gods - Rocket (remember "Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand"? no? good.)

The five worst albums I paid money for are:

12RODS - Separation Anxieties (band follows up great album with total overblown dud)
Jets To Brazil - Four Cornered Night (see above)
Doktor Kosmos - Cocktail (but bad in an entertaining way, the kind of badness that sticks with you years after the fact and you find yourself repeating bits of the lyrics like the complete drooling moron you suddenly realize you are)
Brent Spiner - Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back (yes, as in Data from Star Trek:TNG)
Swirlies - The Yes Girls (thereby squandering the final drops of goodwill that remained from Blondertongue Audiobaton)

JD is for them gentile city folks out in Moncton, out at George's Roadhouse we gots Seagrum's 88 or some nasty crap.

1. Mission Impossible 2 (Limp Bizkit, Mettallica, Rob Zombie, then... Tori Amos????)
   
2. Ani Difranco, Little Plastic Castle (when I was in college, Ani could do no wrong, until this one came out)
   
3. U2's Million Dollar Hotel Soundtrack (the last time I believed Amazon's "If you bought this, you might like..." recommendations)
   

1) Mike Rutherford - Acting Very Strange
2) Rick Wakeman - Soundtrack to "Crimes of Passion"
3) Diamanda Galas - Plague Mass
4) Klaatu - Endangered Species
5) King Crimson - Thrak Attack

5 Worst (in the gloriously bad sense):

1) ELP - Love Beach, side one
2) Spooky Tooth & Pierre Henry- Ceremony: An Electronic Mass
3) Rick Wakeman - Rock 'n' Roll Prophet Plus
4) Klaatu - Hope
5) Amon Duul - Psychedelic Underground

Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat: The Songs Of Leonard Cohen
Johnny Hates Jazz - Turn Back the Clock
Great White - Twice Shy
Rick Wakeman - the one about King Henry's wives
Aix Em Klemm - (forget name, s/t maybe)

Crazy Joe...that's a great rec.

Listing the worst I've ever heard rather than worst I've paid for is just too cheap and boring BTW.

What'd you hate about this one, Sundar? You like SOTL/Labradford? Just wondering b/c I didn't think it was bad.

Grandaddy - Sophtware Slump
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Social Distortion - Mommy's Little Monster
Oasis - What's the Story (Morning Glory)

Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch
Incredible String Band - Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Tom Verlaine - Flashlight
Dylan & The Dead
Goodiepal & Friends

So I beat all y'all!

Nico! but that's only three tracks (maybe four). there's plenty of other delights left.

Yeah, I know it's my problem, it's a classic and all -- I just found this thing completely repellant from the get-go and sold it a week after buying it.

so even lou reed's vocals are terrible then?

it's fine if you don't like the way the alb sounds, it's quite nice to hear some cannon bashing really.

BTW I'm still doing that tape for you. I had to give a copy of one of the recs (a track of which i'm putting in) for a friend so he could burn it. he's given it back now so i'll do it and post it next week.

What's impressive about it? That she can do more than one scream?

fool! ;)
keep it, if only for the first song...

Nick Drake's voice is horrible? I like Nico's voice too actually.

S*M*A*S*H ~ 'Self Abused' (yeah, I know. Shut up.)
Primal Scream ~ 'Screamadelica' (obv)
Cosmic Rough Riders ~ 'Enjoy The Melodic Sunshine'
Nine Inch Nails ~ 'The Fragile'
Mental As Anything ~ 'Fundamental' (actually, I quite liked this at the time... )

Yes, the one (if I recall correctly) recorded at St. John's in NYC (which I must admit, seems like a great choice on her part). Why, is there **another** version of it out there? Good God...

(first of all, sorry for such a dely in reponding to this from a few days ago - too busy at work lately to devote much time to ILM)
So, I wasn't in it for that reason either (i think the main reason was killing time) - yet i got plenty of crap anyway. Probably from listing in factsheet 5 or whatever. I did some short record reviews but it was only of stuff I actually bought for the most part.
We can disagree, the hefner album you mentioned may be the worst hefner album but i'll take it over most anything on the radio.

This is the worst album of all time: You're Icecream's Dirty by Devilhead (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Awzg9keptkq7c)

And not pick nits but the original question was worst 5 you have heard. Someone later suggested it should be owned. but whatever.

1 Oasis 'Be Here Now'
2 Two Lone Swordsmen 'Further Reminders'
3 Manic Street Preachers 'This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours'
4 The Verve 'Urban Hymns'
5 St Germain 'Boulevard'

doesnt include numerous freebies

Coldplay - Parachutes (only heard it from start to finish once. Which was enough).

M People - The one with 'Fantasy Island' or whatever it's called on it. That was bad. My sister had it on rotation at her house once when I was visiting.

Radiohead - OK Computer - bought this on the hype alone, and it's turgid.

Oasis - Be Here Now - 'Don't go Away' is alright but the album is unlistenable for the most part.

Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell 2 - urgh. Terrible.

Aceyalone - Book of Human Language

Black Eyed Peas - Behind the Front

Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - I Wish My Brother George was Here

Common - Resurrection

V/A - Operation Beatbox ("industrial" covers of rap hits. not as good as it sounds, really. not even funny.)

College rap can be so awful.

Oh, wow. Just... wow. That's such a great album. My mind boggles...

"...thoroughly dumbfounded..."

Alanis Morrisette - Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
The Cranberries - No need to argue
Finley Quaye - Maverick a strike
Shania Tawain - Come on over
And, for old times' sake, this http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00000GBK9.03.LZZZZZZZ.gif which a good friend of mine still listens to, for the love of God

SUEDE - HEAD MUSIC
MY BLOODY VALENTINE - ISNT ANYTHING
SONIC YOUTH - DIRTY

Almost every other rapper on Earth using NO tonal coloration on their vocal passages = oh, totally fucking genius

Emotion is Dead is the third release from The Juliana Theory. Funny this is actually a disc that prompts many emotions. The opening track "Into the Dark" is a keeper. The band plows into power pop territory with reckless abandon. The tune features a power-chord chorus that is impressive and keyboards interplay nicely here. "Don't Push Love Away" is Top 40 bound. The cut is grounded with an acoustic guitar, while building to an electric rock chorus. Background vocals and an impressive lead vocal falsetto are well presented. Even though The Juliana Theory appears to be rooted in pop/rock alternative they still deliver some solid, hard-hitting, heavier cuts. "To the Tune of 5,000 Screaming Children" and "Is Patience Still Waiting" both explode with chugging, distorted guitars and powerful vocals. "You Always Say Goodnight, Goodnight" is one of the disc's most engaging tunes. This piano driven melody is augmented nicely by the bass of Chad Alan. As the album's only full-fledged ballad, the tune reaches its peak with a lead guitar and lead vocal that excels at creating an intense vocal centerpiece. The spotlight shines on Brett Deter, the voice behind The Juliana Theory. His songs are well crafted and at times emotionally engaging. With Emotion is Dead, Deter and his bandmates are able to create a pop buzz that leaves a nice aftertaste. -- Steven Losey

David Bowie: David Bowie
Phil Collins: Dance Into The Light
Genesis: We Can't Dance
Thompson Twins: Queer
Wings: Wild Life

that doesn't count, Amateurist--I said on this board!

Why some people don't appear to see the holiness and geniuse of this album and the Fact that Capt. Beefheart is god is Totaly beound me.

Five worst albums I own:

1. The Jayhawks, 'Smile'
2. Joni Mitchell, 'The Hissing of Summer Lawns'
3. Neil Young, 'Harvest'
4. Hefner, 'We Love the City'
5. Damien Jurado, 'Damien Jurado'

Look, if you or anybody else out there can give me a reasonable argument as to why ANY of their albums are not pretentious self-indulgent unlistenable pieces of shit, then believe me, I'm ALL EARS.

I like it a lot better than anything else they've ever done. More fully-realised, less "unfinished" and definitely less country.

You may call it "overproduced", but that word doesn't exist in my vocabulary. :-)

Vanilla Ice: Cool As Ice soundtrack
Marah: Kids In Philly
Neil Young: Landing On Water
Bubba Sparxxx: Dark Days Bright Nights
John Tesh: Live At Red Rocks

I can't believe all the Neil Young / Sonic Youth / Del hatred here, and someone actually mentioned my second favorite album of all time (RTX's Thank You)

Shut up.

How can you hate a DFA production??

Pixies -- "Trompe le Monde"
Neil Young -- "Trans"
The Doors - The Doors
Van Morrison - "Astral Weeks"
The Cure : The Top
Neil Young - Decade
*the best of visage
acdc - high voltage
Rid of Me - PJ Harvey
Boredoms - Super Ae
Loop - "A gilded eternity"
Diamanda Galas - Plague Mass
Klaatu - Endangered Species
Klaatu - Hope
Amon Duul - Psychedelic Underground
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Incredible String Band - Hangman's Beautiful Daughter
Daft Punk - Discovery
Radiohead - OK Computer
MY BLOODY VALENTINE - ISNT ANYTHING
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
Neil Young, 'Harvest'
Neil Young: Landing On Water
Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing at Baxters
The Greatful Dead - American Beauty
Lou Reed - Sally Can't Dance
Dire Straits: Making Movies

These albums are all really good and you must try harder to find stinky records.

(these all bored the crap outta me...)

1.Tony Conrad w/Faust - Outside the Dream Syndicate
2.Sonic Youth - Sonic Death Live
3.Golden Earring - Mad Love
4.Savoy Brown - A Step Further
5.Primal Scream - Screamadelica

Space Needle's first (only?) LP earns a reprieve because of it's beautiful Roger Dean cover and some amusing song titles. Apologies to Witchfynde, Surgery, Horslips, Zodiac Mindwarp and anyone else who just wasn't awful enough.

Yeah, and i know, different strokes and all, but when i think of the WORST stuff that is out there i don't think of neil young and the pixies. i mean when you think of the really really awful gunk you could list. I think the worst album i own is by The Slikkee Boys(sic?).

...oh, and this probably deserves a whole 'nother thread, but there's at least 2 perennial "Worst LP Ever" candidates that I happen to really like (not quite love): Metal Machine Music and Attila - (you know, the Billy Joel thing!)

Has anyone heard the Chromeo album? I think that'd probably top my list at the moment.

I can't really answer this thread, I don't listen to crappy albums all the way through.

middle school was the worst evah.

-- scott seward (skotro...), March 10th, 2004.

Hooray for scott seward!

If "Nothing's Shocking", "The Top", "Trompe Le Monde" and "OK Computer", to name a few, are among anyone's worst albums then the rest of their collections must be in-fucking-credilble! Sonic Youth's "Dirty" being mentioned on this thread is also a shocker.

And Outside the Dream Syndicate rules! You must have some taste for New York minimalism/drone if you bought this (unless you're just a Faust fan) - what did you not like?

- Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
- Spartacus - The Farm
- HMS Fable - Shack
- Eminem - Marshall Mathers
- James - Gold Mother

Hey leave off The Boy With The Arab Strap if only for Seymour Stein.

The likes of Harvest may be overrated - it's far from one of his best, although it does have a few great songs - but worst of all time? Of course not.

Here's a total stinkeroo:

Richard Ashcroft - whatever the new one is called. Fucking appalling.
I get sent all sorts of dire corporate punk from EMI. At least it's good second hand shop fodder...

It's hurting me to try to think of more right now.

coal chamber - s/t
orgy - the one with the cover of blue monday
spawn soundtrack
korn - issues
vines - highly evolved

- Yo La Tengo, Summer Sun; the gap in inspiration and vitality between this and Electr-O-Pura is about the same as the gap between It's Hard and The Who Sell Out.

- Sonic Youth, A Thousand Leaves; after the masterful set of SYR EPs, each delving deeper than the last, expectations were high. Then Thurston Moore talked about how SY should have the Dead's audience. Little did I know that he'd start actively courting the Dead's audience by steering clear of anything vaguely smacking of effort.

- Mercury Rev, The Secret Migration; everything seemed to be in its right place, but nothing cohered.

- Sleater-Kinney, All Hands On The Bad One; I had to check the liner notes multiple times to make sure it wasn't a collection of outtakes and b-sides, because most of the songs sounded like half-finished cast-offs. Ironically, their actual b-sides from their previous and subsequent albums were much more fully realized.

ok, i can only think of 4 right now.

Huey Lewis and The News - Hard At Play
Def Leppard - Retroactive
Wang Chung - The Warmer Sound of Cool
Starship - Love Among the Cannibals
Ride - Tarantula

-- (E...), April 18th, 2003.

This means you have either extremely good or extremely bad taste.

True, that's definitely the best thing on there (as it was in their live shows around that time). So call A Thousand Leaves a half-decent single with lazy outtakes before and after it.

* Note: these albums aren't that bad, they were just disappointing, especially after first impressions / hype.

Max Q: Max Q. WTF this was so bad.
Nathalie Archangel: Owl.
david bowie: tonight.
the guess who: all this for a song.
ringo starr: ringo IV

What part of "personal" are you not getting? You must have heard five albms you disliked more than others, surely? Stuff without melody, that sort of thing.

But I still find it pathetic. It is a lot more interesting to discuss stuff you like rather than stuff you dislike. Obviously, a lot of you guys disagree, which I presume is why you dislike Q (Q are more busy writing positive and constructive articles about stuff they find good rather than dismissing a lot of music lots of people like like NME do)

(I find people's dislikes as interesting as their likes. Different strokes, and all that)

1. Big Star - In Space (Apparently, I'm in the minority on this one. It got really good press.)
2. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon (This was (erroneously) listed on the Rolling 2006 Singles Thread, so of course I had to check it out. It's a very boring 40-minute ambient piece.)
3. Jason Spaceman - Guitar Loops (Not that I expected it to be any good, you understand.)
4. Jim O'Rourke - Happy Days (I just don't like experimental music very much. After being completely blown away by his still-incredible Bad Timing LP, it amazed me just how awful and boring this album was. I'm Happy and I'm Singing and a 1234 was a real piece of shit, too! I am now pretty much convinced that Bad Timing was a lightning-don't-strike-the-same-place-twice kinda thing.)
5. Mogwai - Mr. Beast (this one was a total in-one-ear-out-the-other letdown (where's the HOOKS???), especially since it came after their career-best happy songs for happy people.)

Blondie - The Hunter
Kate Bush - Aerial
Lou Reed - Growing Up In Public (but really, not much worse than Rock and Roll Heart, The Bells, Mistrial, Set The Twilight Reeling, Ecstasy, or Legendary Hearts)
Grace Jones - Bulletproof Heart
Talking Heads - Little Creatures

Razorlight - Up All Night.

Incidentally, XTRMNTR rules.

so this thread got off on the right foot then...