WORST album ever

[English assassin]

Come on, it was the logical next step. What is the worst album you have ever bought? Bombastic rock opera, Wigger Rap, ill advised actor vanity projects, lets get it all out here. Preferably stuff so bad its good.

Mine is a little number called "Rock baby". As I may have mentioned before, I am the proud possessor of a young son (not quite two years old). Naturally it is my duty to show him the way, as regards manly things such as beer, motorbikes and the like. Music too. Unfortunately whilst he is keen on beer and motorbikes, Black Sabbath makes him cry.

So, when I was in Tower records and my eye fell on "rock baby" I had to take a second look. The cover promised a collection of rock classics "in a lullaby style."

Now, I KNOW the rest of the story more or less tells itself from there. But when they said rock, they meant ROCK. And come on, who with an ounce of curiousity doesn't want to hear what "Paranoid" sounds like "in a lullaby style" ?

Well I can tell you. It sounds completely bloody terrible.

[Ser Clegane]

The worst I bought was "Madra" by "Miranda Sex Garden", some chicks singing songs of the early 17th century.
Maybe I'm a Philistine - but I did not quite like that one (maybe I should have listened to a song or two before actually buying it )

The worst I listened to: "Metal Machine Music" by Lou Reed.
Well, I actually did not listen to the whole album - so I might have missed something ingenious - but since I did not get payed for enduring it any further I stopped halfway through...

[Ronin]

uhm....i gotta go with vanila ice´s album...

[Hosakawa Tito]

That John Lennon and Yoko Ono album in which Yoko sings/screeches. Absolutely horrid.

[InsaneApache]

I'm gonna upset some guys in here..it was an MFP album, produced in the early 70s...in Middlesex, Thats right EMI.

and it was/is called 'Songs of Success' ( i still have it), it says 'STEREO' on ther label...'Warning if this long playing record is played on a MONO reproduction unit then ur recording may (classic) suffer from sound quality.....

oh...btw the album was by a Jimi Hendrix...and it was crap

[Procrustes]

The worst I listened to: "Metal Machine Music" by Lou Reed.
Well, I actually did not listen to the whole album - so I might have missed something ingenious - but since I did not get payed for enduring it any further I stopped halfway through...

That album is actually worth money now - so bad noone bought it. Lou Reed was fighting to get out of a contract with his recording company - he was on the hook for two more albums. So he made the double "Metal Machine Music" - really just a collection of random noise and feedback. I read an interview with him once where he talked about a tour he did of Japan. He said that as he was being greeted in the airport he couldn't get over the awful sounds that were being blasted over the PA - only afterwards did he realize they were playing his new album for him.

[Kongamato]

I was looking around for some more info on "Metal Machine Music" when I ran into this clever Flash animation out of Russia. Very impressive.

http://www.luisi.ru/prikol_410.php

[Gregoshi]

Kongamato, that is pretty cool. The creativity of some people is truly amazing.


Tito, when I saw this thread, that Lennon/Ono album you mentioned was the first one that popped in my head. A funny aside: there was a very clever Power Puff Girls episode (don't ask) that spoofed the Beatles. Almost all the dialog was from a Beatles song. Anyway, there was a Yoko Ono character that showed up in the episode and all this character did was scream - much like Yoko does on that album. It was very funny.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

That John Lennon and Yoko Ono album in which Yoko sings/screeches. Absolutely horrid.

At first i though this was a ridiclous question but upon seeing this post it also sprang back to my mind. Its got to be the worst especially looking at who did it( leaving yoko out). Whoda thunk?

[Hosakawa Tito]

I just had to look this up. The album's titled "Double Fantasy", the fantasy part must be the assumption that Yoko has any singing or song writing talent.
Considering that, in my opinion, John Lennon was one of the best song writers ever, and he consented to produce this..... I guess it just goes to show that "true love" is not only blind, but tone deaf too.
Greg, a Power Puff Girls Yoko Ono cartoon character? You've been putting in some quality TV time with the kids, one of the sacrafices of being Daddy. hehehe
I had just gotten out of the Marines and my best friend, a big Beatles/Lennon fan, ran out and bought this album. I came over with a case of beer and we played this record. At least we got drunk.

[The Tuffen]

I don't know i reckon the william shatner album must be pretty bad.

uhm....i gotta go with vanila ice´s album...

Sadly i believe i owned that at one point.

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Dreadful, but absolutely hilarious.

[Axeknight]

Dreadful, but absolutely hilarious.

It's music, Jim, but not as we know it...


I just had to

[Togakure]

It was 1980 or so. I and several of my counselor m8s had managed to get the day off from our wild summer camp kids and were going to see our first "Day on the Green" at the Oakland Colliseum. I was SO jazzed because, being heavy into the progressive rock scene at the time, I was going to see both Gamma, and my absolute favorite at the time--Kansas.

The show opened with a local act, 415. They were ok. The contact high from being around so many potsmokers hadn't really kicked in yet; maybe that was the problem. Then some boys from the South came on--38 Special. They were no Skynyrd, but they rocked nicely. The sound guys were still dialing in, so the impact wasn't quite there yet. Next, the first real shaker came on--UFO. Now these euros ROCKED. Only You Can Rock Me, Pack It Up and Go, and the hit--Too Hot to Handle ... man, Michael Schenker can play a mean lead guitar.

Gamma was really cool. They didn't get as warm an ovation as UFO did, but the crowd got really loud over their hit, "Voyager." I thoroughly enjoyed them though, particularly Ronnie Montrose's guitar work.

Ah ... then Kansas. The effect was amazing. It was like a room with candles suddenly being lit by an outdoor spotlight. They were so powerful, so consistent. The crowd was on its feet and moving fromt the first song to the last. The ovation was uproarious. Definitely one of the best live performances I'd ever seen.

Heh ... then the headliner, and the winner of my "Worst Album Ever" came on. Ever had the misfortune to hear the song "Heard if from a Friend" ? You know--REO Speedwagon? [quickly grabs a bucket and hurls]. Man, they OPENED with that song, and it was so bad ... . half the stadium left (as did we, with an armful of sun bunnies that wanted to have dinner with us). Now when I hear that song and the other garbage on that album, I race to the stereo to change the station before I lose my temper and destroy my electronics in a fit of uncontrollable frenzy.

"High Infidelity" is my worst album of all time thus far.

[Togakure]

O-M-G!! Spock and Kirk did an album?? All these years and I never knew that! I can imagine it being very bad ... but I'd still love to hear it, for the laughs. Gonna have to track that one down.

[Devastatin Dave]

Anything Metallica has put out since the black album...

[Navaros]

U2 - How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb is very possibly the worst album ever

[The Tuffen]

O-M-G!! Spock and Kirk did an album?? All these years and I never knew that! I can imagine it being very bad ... but I'd still love to hear it, for the laughs. Gonna have to track that one down.

They did an album each i think, can't remember what Leonard Nimoy's was called but Shatner's was called 'Has been'

Have a look here http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...music&n=507846

Just noticed Shatner has released two albums the other being called 'Transformed man'

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

Anything Metallica has put out since the black album...

The Black Album wasn't too great either, when compared to some of their earlier output.

[Kaiser of Arabia]

Anything put out my Maryln Manson

[ah_dut]

What are you people thinking? are you all tonedeaf? j/k obviously. Anything by busted, macfly, westlife et al