WORST album ever

**English assassin** · 01-10-2005, 20:18

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** · 01-10-2005, 20:48

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** · 01-10-2005, 21:08

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

**Hosakawa Tito** · 01-10-2005, 21:43

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

**InsaneApache** · 01-10-2005, 22:55

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** · 01-10-2005, 23:36

Originally Posted by Ser Clegane

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** · 01-11-2005, 00:56

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** · 01-11-2005, 06:13

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** · 01-11-2005, 06:30

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?