What was the worst record you ever bought

[TheBaldyMan]

I honestly think it was my first album - Wombleing Free (I was quite young)

[billyskank]

1. Something or other by Bobby Brown

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[matcom]

2. Damn The Torpedos

started my album collection the right way :D

[RandomKoolzip]

3. Some piece of shit Yo La Tengo album back in 1998....

I remembered them from back in the 80's ("Oh, another band trying to sound exactly like the third Velvet Underground album. :eyes: How unique.") and cared so little about their existence that when I picked up the Village Voice Pazz & Jop poll for 1997 and saw that something like 30 critics put the YLT song "Moby Octapad" on their top ten songs for the year (The only other group which garnered as much praise was the, uh, Spice Girls), I decided to see what all the fuss was about.

Apparently the fuss was all about Ira Kaplan blowing New York's finest critics. He must give INCREDIBLE blowjobs (swallowing and everything!) because this useless fucking song was just some un-rocking record collectors trying REALLY HARD to be the Stone Roses, who weren't even that great to begin with. I never played the album again. It wasn't even bad enough to be funny.

I STILL don't understand what people hear in that band.

Their popularity seems to be based on friendships with rock critics, since Kaplan used to be one of their number. Not to say that rockcrits can't make listenable music once in a while (R. Meltzer's "I'm in Love with Your Mom" is sterling example), but in general it's best their over-intellectual selves remain observers.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. Once I bought a CD that was supposed to be a local

Celtic group. But it was a CD of the worst organ music I have ever heard. Somehow it got mismarked. I took it back and got the real thing.

[BlueIris]

5. No Doubt, "Tragic Kingdom." Man, that one blows. Badly.

I still have no idea HOW that group survived.

[Damn Hippie]

6. The Best of the Thompson Twins

Gawd, did it suck ass.

[bridgit]

7. live 'can', i knew i should have picked up the mmw...

x( http://www.mmw.net

[swag]

10. But you finally snagged "Combustication," right?

[bridgit]

17. woulda-shoulda-coulda, swag dearest, but forgot to mention these guys...

the true two (2) hit wonder x(

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Probably Stevie Wonder - can't remember the name,

but it was in the late 70s, maybe 1980, red cover with gold on it, if I remember, and I think the title was in a script font. It might have been a greatest hits album, I'm not sure. Hell, I might even still have it.

Of all my records, that is the one that I think I would call the worst.

[swag]

9. "Love Beach" by Emerson, Lake, & Palmer

[crispini]

19. That record cover...

:wow: My eyes, my eyes! :rofl:

[Arugula Latte]

22. Oooh. The open shirts. The hairy chests. The bulges.

They're out BeeGeeing the BeeGees!

[SKKY]

11. Sugar Ray "Floored"...

...it didn't just suck, it suckity suck sucked.

[Beausoir]

12. White Stripes. n/t

[Catshrink]

13. I'm embarrassed to admit it -- Toby Keith

it sucked big time.

[NNadir]

14. I had a Grandfunk Railroad album when I was a kid. Also Led Zeppelin

albums.

And then there's the whole issue of the Grateful Dead, but I excuse myself on the grounds that I was often high in those days.

[Catshrink]

15. I heard Zeppelin when they were a warm up band for the Vanilla Fudge

yeah, I'm that old.

[NNadir]

16. I have a similar experience. I saw Steely Dan open for Cheech and Chong.

The only reason I went because a friend of a my girlfriend's was a friend of (then) Steely Dan guitarist Denny Diaz.

We even got to go backstage and meet Mr. Diaz.

I like Vanilla Fudge by the way. I think they were more interesting than Led Zeppelin.

[GalleryGod]

27. Don't Tell Lynnesin !? Yikes, She'll Go Berserk!

Worst record........wow...I bought so many


Manfred Mann's "Doo Wah Diddy" LP.

One hit...11 fillers

[kwassa]

18. and I saw Grand Funk open for Led Zeppelin .... about 1970?

Cleveland Public Arena. Zep's first tour, I believe

[swag]

20. Grand Funk's "Paranoid" is superior to Black Sabbath's "Paranoid."

[blindpig]

21. Unconditionally Guaranteed, Captian Beefheart & The Magic Band

What the fuck was Don thinking? I'm a serious Beefheart fan but that was such a lame attempt at commercialism that I still can't believe it. PU!

[no name no slogan]

23. "Tales From Topographic Oceans" by Yes

Four sides of utter shite :puke: Even worse than "Love Beach" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer

The only reason I bought it was to complete my Yes collection.

[maveric]

26. With the exception of one acoustic cut, TfTO is NOISE!

I tried to like it and point out the finer and more artistic points in that album, but came up very dry.
I always beleived that they picked up all the cuts from the studio floor for that pice of crap.

[momophile]

24. must be Tesla... or Huey Lewis... nt

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

25. "Get That Feeling" Jimi Hendrix And Curtis Knight

I was and still am a big Jimi Hendrix fan. I saw three live performances by Hendrix when I was young and was completely blown away.

But the album with Curtis Knight was a great disappointment. I bought it in about 1968 when Hendrix was considered a deity to almost every young rock guitarist on earth.

Hendrix barely does anything on the album and Curtis Knight's voice and material both suck. The recording quality is also very poor. I don't know when the recording was actually made, but it seems obvious that the session occurred before Hendrix fully developed his inimitable style.

[AtomicKitten]

28. Meet the Beatles (nt)

[RevolutionaryActs]

29. Robyn Is Here by a singer named Robyn.

From Sweden, I remember liking one of her songs at the time, but now I have NO idea what I was thinking. But I was only 11 at the time. :shrug:

[mvd]

30. I can't believe I'm seeing White Stripes, Tragic Kingdom, and..

Robyn here. I like all three. Anyway, worst I bought is probably Michael Bolton's Time, Love, And Tenderness.