The worst LP or CD you have ever owned?

[surv1v0r]

I would be interested / amused to hear what the worst LP or CD you have ever owned is and why?

My personal opening offering is a CD I just acquired at a local School Fete this morning, I give you Lifted, or, The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (LINK (http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/937-lifted-or-the-story-is-in-the-soil-keep-your-ear-to-the-ground/)), the third or fourth album by Bright Eyes. If someone played/sung this at an Open Mike event they would undoubtedly be booed off the stage.

I have others . . . Mark Cerrone's Love in C Minor springs to mind.

Come on, share your worst.

[Arkless Electronics]

Nirvana "Bleach"

[Barry]

I would be interested / amused to hear what the worst LP or CD you have ever owned is and why?

My personal opening offering is a CD I just acquired at a local School Fete this morning, I give you Lifted, or, The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground (LINK (http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/937-lifted-or-the-story-is-in-the-soil-keep-your-ear-to-the-ground/)), the third or fourth album by Bright Eyes. If someone played/sung this at an Open Mike event they would undoubtedly be booed off the stage.

I have others . . . Mark Cerrone's Love in C Minor springs to mind.



Come on, share your worst.

I rather liked his 2004 recordings: I'm Wide Awake It's Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn. However I lost interest in his later stuff.

Probably got some "stinkers" in my collection, that haven't been donated to the charity shops. Will have to think about it.

[Joe]

Peter Green's 'The End of the Game'. What made it worse was that I'd asked for the album as birthday present!

[Macca]

Quite a few I can think of. What's that Zappa album where it is all synclavier?

And Neil Young 'Life'

Diana Krall 'The Girl In the Other Room' never been able to listen to all of that

But for the very worst I'm torn between Glen Frey's 'Soul Searchin' and Lindsay Buckingham's 'Go Insane'

[Barry]

But did you own them?

[Macca]

Yes still have all of them

[ceejaydee]

I've had a few over the years that didn't live up to immediate expectation but this by Metallica was a serious let down for me.... I kind of liked 'Load' in a way but this was awful and I tried a couple of listens in case it was a grower but it wasn't.

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[Virtual-Symmetry]

Seems a bit daft question. Dont people know what they are buying before they buy it? However not suprising that its a fact Hi-Fi puddings know nothing about music, they think they do but they dont..

;)

[Pete The Cat]

Over the years I've generally checked out at least one track on an album before buying rather than taking a blind punt. That's where singles used to come in so handy. The only albums that I've bought with absolutely no prior insight have been artists who I've found have consistently delivered for me previously. I do have a few exceptions but most were bargain bin - here's an example of a "fail", as I believe the young people say.

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Chequered Past on vinyl, bought in a sale at Virgin in Nottingham (you see, these things stick...) some time in the 80's on the strength of Steve Jones' involvement. A whole album of nothing at all of note. Still have it though - as I see it, your records and CDs are part of your DNA and even the bad ones represent a piece of you.

Pete

[Andy831]

Eric Dolphy Out to lunch. I am sure some people will like it but I found it to be a tuneless mess.

[ceejaydee]

Eric Dolphy Out to lunch. I am sure some people will like it but I found it to be a tuneless mess.

I must say I found this very hard work for a while but one day it clicked for me.

Still not something that I could just put on and would need to be in the mood for the randomness of it all.

[Macca]

Seems a bit daft question. Dont people know what they are buying before they buy it? However not suprising that its a fact Hi-Fi puddings know nothing about music, they think they do but they dont..

;)

When I was still buying vinyl I'd quite often take a punt on a second hand copy of something for a quid. Sometimes just because I liked the cover art. If it's only a quid, why not?

[Andy831]

I must say I found this very hard work for a while but one day it clicked for me.

Still not something that I could just put on and would need to be in the mood for the randomness of it all.

Christopher your not the first person to tell me this, but for me music has to be tuneful and this and many more "free jazz" records I have heard just leave me cold. I try and keep my jazz as tuneful and gentle as possible. I also struggle with most Miles I have heard, I have tried very hard to like it but I do struggle. Maybe I should just stick with Abba :lol:

[ceejaydee]

Christopher your not the first person to tell me this, but for me music has to be tuneful and this and many more "free jazz" records I have heard just leave me cold. I try and keep my jazz as tuneful and gentle as possible. I also struggle with most Miles I have heard, I have tried very hard to like it but I do struggle. Maybe I should just stick with Abba :lol:

ABBA is good too :)

[JohnJo]

Chas and Dave Christmas LP is unspeakably bad, and I don't mean maybe.

Probably worth considering locking the thread tbh, the end :)

[Virtual-Symmetry]

Mickey Mouse 'Disco'

[Macca gave it me] :eyebrows:

[Macca]

Chas and Dave Christmas LP is unspeakably bad, and I don't mean maybe.

Probably worth considering locking the thread tbh, the end :)

Which one? 'A Cockney Christmas With Chas And Dave' or 'A Christmas Knees Up With Chaz And Dave'

The former has blisteringly good reviews. Here's one:

'enjoyed the carols and all the old songs. There (sic) voices were nice and easy to understand by everyone young and old'

Might get the brace of them for this year's festivities.

Might.

[Macca]

Mickey Mouse 'Disco'

[Macca gave it me] :eyebrows:

I had two copies. Gave you the Nice Price one kept the first pressing for meself.

[mikeyb]

This one:

Was convinced by someone on a Forum that it was one of the best prog albums ever...... But unfortunately it's a cross between Hall and Oates and Chicago ............ Oh Dear me it's awful, if anyone wants it they can have it for postage costs ;)

http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20160628/42d1d7e632cb4926c2715e89f9705d5c.jpg

[Roy S]

http://i562.photobucket.com/albums/ss68/Lodger56/ee_zpscc46580a.jpg

[JohnJo]

Neither of those, the one I have is Chas and Dave's Chrismas Carol Album.



Which one? 'A Cockney Christmas With Chas And Dave' or 'A Christmas Knees Up With Chaz And Dave'

The former has blisteringly good reviews. Here's one:

'enjoyed the carols and all the old songs. There (sic) voices were nice and easy to understand by everyone young and old'

Might get the brace of them for this year's festivities.

Might.

[montesquieu]

Eric Dolphy 'Out to Lunch'. What a load of complete and utter pish.

EDIT - oops I see Andy got in ahead of me.

https://superette.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/51hwkat1akl.jpg

[montesquieu]

Christopher your not the first person to tell me this, but for me music has to be tuneful and this and many more "free jazz" records I have heard just leave me cold. I try and keep my jazz as tuneful and gentle as possible. I also struggle with most Miles I have heard, I have tried very hard to like it but I do struggle. Maybe I should just stick with Abba :lol:

I once shared a flat (and played in a band with) a double bass player who eventually found his way into free jazz. Quite a few years after we went our separate ways, I made the mistake of taking a young lady to one of his free jazz gigs anticipating the 'proper' jazz I know that he can play very well. Well that was the end of that. And to be fair the friendship hasn't been the same since either - there was no getting away from the mutual disappointment (this is someone I've known for 25 years) me in the rubbish he was playing, him in my lack of ability to 'get' it.

I recall I left an Ornette Colman concert at half time at the Edinburgh Festival. I felt like the wee boy in the story of the Emperor's New Clothes - it just seemed to me that the people around me were being taken for mugs, that the band must be having a right laugh backstage getting money for random instrumental farting. (Thankfully the ticket was free as I was a journalist at the time).

I wouldn't put Miles quite in that bracket though the vast majority of his output definitely has something going for it, even the challenging 'later' stuff. Of course his early stuff was just as groundbreaking, except it's now become very familar through repetition and imitation.

[Jason P]

One day in the streets of Leicester I was handed a cd by a pretty girl. I feared a scam, but she assured me there was no catch... just a PR excessive.

Admiring the well though out artwork and packaging, I slipped the CD into my friends Linn Classik, and pressed play.

Nothing, and I mean nothing, could have prepared me for the horror that is Rich Shapero's 'Wild Animus: The Ram'. Words cannot adequately describe the noise that issued forth from the loudspeakers. We sat, transfixed at the sheer awfulness of the lyrics, the bombastic edge to his voice, and the random squawks masquerading as music. Each track seemed to raise the bar of cringeworthyness to heights unimaginable. I had found the holy grail... possibly the worst album ever.

Shapero, it turns out, was a US venture capitalist with a lot of money, a burning desire to write the great American novel (and release 3 accompanying CDs) but (and this is a personal opinion) without any accompanying talent to pull the thing off. And, it seems, no friends willing to tell him this uncomfortable truth.

Those of you with a strong aural disposition can find the offending album here:

https://open.spotify.com/album/2hLlZutTK0yxTtxHuP1D91

[RichB]

Nirvana "Bleach"

Really? I heard they recorded this for 500 bucks and it does sound like it but having seen them during this period I quite enjoyed it. Sure it's not going to win any songwriting awards but you get the energy of the band from it, in spite of the iffy musicianship... Of course Kurt would later go on be a accomplished by rock guitarist but it captures a vibe at a moment in time quite well.