worst album you ever bought?

[Termite Man]

Self titled Moondog from the Book and Record Exchange, Hull. probably only 75p (this will have been about 1972), I cried when I heard it. Just one track was Ok and that was the same as the sample one I already had.

I don't mind that record . It's certainly not the best but I wouldn't say it's the worst ever ( unless you just have a great collection ) I also like the cover so at least I have a nice cover I can look at

 

[al]

Extensions by Manahattan Transfer - it really was awful, the worst jazz in the the world. ever.

avoid at all costs

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Well at the time I was extremely disappointed with Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music", purchased on the day it came out.

So I exchanged it ...

Yep ... I know, I know ...

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Something called 'These Acid Stars' by J Xaverre that I bought on a random purchase whim. I can't even remember exactly what it sounds like now but I remember really hating it.

 

[articul8]

Deeply ashamed but "The Joshua Tree" by U2

Stadium-MOR bollocks with god-squaddery thrown in for christian bible-belt market.

 

[pilchardman]

Oh, I've bought some real doozies in my time. Hardly know where to start.

There's one by Pete Murphy of Bauhaus I wiped from my memory. And I remember being bitterly disappointed by the Psychedelic Furs' "Mirror Moves", having loved them up until then.

But I think the prize goes to a live Chuck Berry album I bought once. Chuck was a genius, but this was just utter pants. I melted it into an ashtray (I smoked at the time).

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

No way is 'the memphis sessions' by wet wet wet the worst thing I've ever bought. (on ten inch vinyl as well)

Aha! Oops, erm...



Actually, that Foreigner album with 'I Wanna Know What Love Is' on it was pretty bad...said song being the only (cheesily) decent track. And 'Slippery When Wet' by Bon Jovi sounds pretty rough these days...the singles were the only tracks worth listening to...

No - I have it. 'Son Of Albert' by Andrew fucking Ridgeley. What was I thinking of...?

 

[Firky]

Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy was the last god awful album i bought, when did that come out? 2003/4?

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy was the last god awful album i bought, when did that come out? 2003/4?

2001.

I quite liked it actually.

 

[oneflewover]

I don't mind that record . It's certainly not the best but I wouldn't say it's the worst ever ( unless you just have a great collection ) I also like the cover so at least I have a nice cover I can look at

Moondog not in my collection anymore (thankfully), as for my collection, it's now well diluted thanks to a 12year daughter and Mrs OFO who is still adding to her Donnie Osmonds and musical soundtracks.

 

[Isambard]

Can't remember the name but it was recomended to me by:


DUBVERSION!

 

[top_biller]

Ludacris - Chicken n Beer..... off the back of the single Stand Up (produced by Kanye West if my memory serves) got it home to find that the rest of the album is produced by his mates from school and a couple of up and coming cats from just down the road from his house. Sounds of Wackness.

Second place goes to the Streetfighter 2 soundtrack (saved from the top spot only cause its got a good Rass Kass track on it).

 

[christonabike]

The Alarm

Slashed it with a knife, back to Woolies, and got Transformer

 

[King Biscuit Time]

Buju Banton-'Til Shiloh......one play then bin. Supposedly "roots meets dancehall" classic.

I think 'til Shiloh is an excellent album.
Worst CD I bought was of an R+B band playing in pub when I was 16 years old and leathered.

 

[spanglechick]

Firstly - I second Tangerinedream's defence of "This is Hardcore" am (or certainly was ) very into Pulp and this is my favourite of their albums. Particularly "Glory Days".

Anyway.

Bruce Willis' Album - The Return of Bruno. On vinyl. Saved up out of my pocket money and purchased from WHSmiths in Bexleyheath...
(or is crap stuff we liked and bought as kids a whole ther thread?)

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Firstly - I second Tangerinedream's defence of "This is Hardcore" am (or certainly was ) very into Pulp and this is my favourite of their albums. Particularly "Glory Days".

Indeed. The words 'Pulp' and 'bad album' do be an oxymoron make.

Now, you would think that the album that Philip Oakey made with Giorgio Moroder would be an instant classic wouldn't you, what with its being a collaboration of two of the most inspirational synth pop pioneers of the C20? Especially as it featured the sublime 'Together In Electric Dreams'...? Well, sadly it's not - that's the only really good song on there and the rest is tired electronic chugging desperately stretched out to the length of a long-playing record.

 

[DJWrongspeed]

Pulp - This Is Hardcore
Gave me a headache everytime I listened to it.

weird? i rate that as one of the best songs of the 90s

 

[cathal marcs]

Proud Mary- Cant eve remember what it was called pile of shite listened to it twice never again. Gave it to one of my mates.

 

[zed66]

I think 'til Shiloh is an excellent album.


Bought it the same day as Barrington Levy "Here I Come" and Eek a Mouse "Wa Do Dem".I think 'til Shiloh just suffered in comparison. Been playing these two on a near daily basis since I got them.Some albums/tracks just seem to insist on a 2nd playing straight away, some grow on you slowly and some you just never want to hear again. All subjective innit.

 

[cyberfairy]

I bought Dizzee Rascal, boy in da corner as was highly and widely praised. It's crap.

 

[Blagsta]

I bought Dizzee Rascal, boy in da corner as was highly and widely praised. It's crap.

Are you deaf? Its a great album!

 

[cyberfairy]

Are you deaf? Its a great album!

pardon?

 

[Blagsta]

See

 

[DaveCinzano]

See

i think you mean:

 

[cyberfairy]

See

I poked my eardrums through with a hb pencil so I would ever have to listen to such boring bilgewater again

 

[marksims68]

Metallica - St Anger.

Absolute dogshit.

 

[miss giggles]

Wombleing merry christmas Dreadful. But "super womble" was quite a good track.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

I've got some dreadful compilations featuring flat-as-a-cowpat session muso interpretations of pop hits, such as the 'TOTP' series (that bizarrely lasted until 1985).

And this fecking dire dig's rod of a tape I got for about 49p in an Asda bargain bin in 1986 called 'Men Only' which consists of horrific session versions of songs by luminaries such as Phil Collins, Paul Young, Peter Cetera and Belouis Some. Seeing as it's likely to have since been criminalised, maybe I should flush it down the khazi...?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I'm really careful about my LP purchases as I don't buy that many. I've been given some real stinkers though. A friend in Zurich (sadly dead now) gave me a CD done by a friend of hers called Gigi Moto and that stands out.

 

[ether]

Bentley Rhythm Ace - Ragtopskodadiscocarchase. or whatever it was called. So captivating I fell asleep listening to it, ignored it on my shelf for 3 whole years, tried again, and fell asleep again. Off to the charity shop it went.