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]

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.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

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

[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?

[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]

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.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i call those 'inertia albums'.

[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.

[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.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

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

[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)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

WHATwhatwhat????

but how can any album with for tomorrow and chemical world on be rubbish? just because most of the rest of it is DODGY SHOEGAZE doesn't make it a bad album...

[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)

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

well I may be answering a slightly different question i.e. 'worst' means 'album you were most disappointed by'. I quite liked Leisure and I wanted to be into the sound of young Britain or whatever to assuage my (late)-teenaged angst. (i.e. I wanted to be able to believe what I read in the NME!) But my lifelong and now well-cultivated dislike of Blur and all their doings begins here.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

sealed of course by the fact that every c&nt at university was listening to Parklife.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

This Film is terrific!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

C'mon Kids I think it was

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

oh yes, total head scratcher that one. I actually own ALL THREE David Holmes solo alBUMs. Never was the phrase "Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it" so apposite ;)

[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.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

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

[sbp.livejournal.com]

A couple of the choons on the Free Association one weren't too bad. The too-stiff cardboard cover annoyed me though.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

c'mon kids is also terrific!