What is the worst record you have ever bought?

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

In the pub on Friday night we had a - really quite long - discussion about this album, which I paid good money for at age 14 (on audiocassette). I think it is probably the worst record I've ever bought, though I admit I haven't listened to it in almost 20 years.

What's yours?

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[spazhammer.livejournal.com]

its got to be the spin doctors second album. i was young, liked the first one, and had £15 worth of our price vouchers to spend. the nearest our price was in derby, and i *hated* going to derby, so it meant i had to buy something there and then. so i bought the spin doctors.

I've regretted it ever since.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Urban Hymns. Absolutely soul-destroying.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

I quite liked it. But then it cost me 99 Thai baht on cassette which is next to nothing.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

There have been a few that I've bought because they've been recommended or I thought I ought to have a copy, and I've listened once or twice and gone "meh" and never listened to them again. e.g. "Daydream Nation" by those there Sonic Yoofs, "Jazz From Hell" or "Francesco Zappa" by Mr FZ. Or even bought and never listended to, e.g. Henry Cow, Radio 4.

But bought and listened to a reasonable amount, and it being particularly bad?
I quite liked Eurhythmics' "Savage" when I was 17 but lots of people don't - it's quite sparse and machiney compared to their other stuff.

I dunno, I have a large amount of CDs and many of them seemed like a good idea at the time, or were cheap, or my sister got me. e.g. the soundtrack to the Son of The Pink Panther, which was pretty bad but at least has that theme.

Perhaps the worst one is the CD of supposedly-cat-related classical tunes that (probably) my mum got me one time.

Mercifully I've never bought a Phil Collins rekkid.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

Savage is my favourite Eurhythmics album

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

one of the canon albums i bought in my first year of uni at the behest of various all-time-greatest lists in terrible magazines which i thought i 'should' pay attention to if i wanted to be a writer. i still have a lot of them, they're in a rubbish bag waiting to be sold off, but i can never be bothered to figure out amazon marketplace. should just give 'em all to oxfam really.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

probably some jello biafra spin-off side project, although actually i think they all had *one* good track on...

...it took me aaaages to get into slanted & enchanted, but when i did, it was clearly great ;)

i did pick up the last suede alBUM in fopp for a quid and have never listened to it, but i'm guessin gthat's not really in the spirit of the question is it?

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i call those 'inertia albums'.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

haha my then flatmate bought that Roger Waters LP when it first came out. We were both big fans of late Pink Floyd. Even back then it was rather obvious that it was a mis-step, to put it mildly. Little did I know Waters would never record anything good ever again.

As part of my 365 Days Project a couple of years ago I had to buy and listen to some right stinkers (along with many fantastic records). Perhaps best not name names... oh alright then Built To Spill, Ludovico Einaudi, Boo Radleys and Loren Mazzacane Connors + Christina Carter all spring to mind as in the stinker category.

But I should really give you an example of something I bought of my own volition and was expecting to be good (or at least interesting) but wasn't. I will ponder and get back to you.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

despite listening to the wall, final cut and YES even Radio Kaos quite a lot, back in the day, i have never heard any of Pros and Cons.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ooh which boo radleys? i ♥ them, so will probably disagree with you ;)

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i have bought plenty of CDs on a mix of trust, rule of 3, madness and misguided 'on spec' fun.

the ones that you then give away instantly - do they count?

or are we on: the ones you listen to, stick with going 'no it IS good' and then admit you were barking up wrong tree.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

the latter i think.

construction for the modern idiot (and possibly never loved elvis) might well fit this category although i paid money for NEITHER i assure you (unlike hup which i paid and is STILL GREAT)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah I personally was thinking of that special combination of it being really bad and you making a big effort to like it - possibly even trying to rationalise and justify it.

With Roger W I had probably under ten albums in all at the time so I really really was determined to find SOMETHING to enjoy in it and played it a great deal. But in fact it was complete shite AND it had a cover which even at 14 I knew I shouldn't be proud of owning.

I put a LOT of effort into Wing's "London Town" at around the same time and was mistaken then too but it's a much MUCH better record than Hitchhiking.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

much smaller list. possibly cos i can delude myself very easily. or give away stuff too quickly!

i listened to a lot of quite goth stuff at college that i wouldn't listen to a LOT these days. but if i did re-listen i would still like them enough. (swans/nephilim sort of noise.)

actually i'm wondering if the list is 0...

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

David Holmes 'This Film's Crap Let's Slash the Seats'.

total cack.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Or possible Blur 'Modern Life Is Rubbish'.

this album is rubbish more like.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Voice of the Beehive's Sex & Misery, I think (I thought it was Monsters and Angels, but apparently that was a single)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

"Biggest disappointment" would probably be Autogeddon by Julian Cope.

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, have you read this?

http://idolator.com/384731/roger-waters-somehow-finds-a-way-to-make-me-loathe-pink-floyd-even-more

The commenters who are outraged at the thought of someone disparaging Roger Waters is the best part.

Kill Uncle is probably the worst, despite my attempts to convince myself that it wasn't that bad.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

pink floyd fans are TEH MENTALS though, innit (http://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2006/08/what-pink-floyds-the-wall-cover-would-actually-look-like/)

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

Be Here Now - altho I can't remember whether I bought it or just took the promo copy for the student paper (the cd itself wasn't a promo tho)

if not that then Urban Hymans or This Is My Truth, Tell Me Yours - both bought because I thought they should be reviewed :o

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

OH GOD YES, "this is my truth" totally wins.

where is my FMF icon?

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

mu-ziq - Royal Astronomy.

Unlistenable.

[chezghost.livejournal.com]

i remember liking 'The Fear'

I DON'T BELIEVE THIS IS WORSE THAN DOCTOR BOMBAY

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

That is all.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Idiot Pilot- 'Strange We Should Meet Here,' of albums I've bought that I still read the description of and think 'god that sounds ace -OH FVCK IT'S THAT CRAP.'

However the actual worst album I've ever bought is 'Break The Cycle' by Staind. In my defense I was thirteen.

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Not in the spirit of the question I suppose, but the worst album I ever bought is probably 'Uri Geller'. It cost me 25p and was worth it just for the gatefold sleeve with the lyrics on it. It's so impressively varied in its spacey poetry. One starts "Floating in deep, velvet, black space" and another starts "Deep, deep, long, wide space / I am floating there like waters". One track is about how to bend spoons.