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erniejadeerniejade Posts: 5,470
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This gets my vote for worst album of all time. Sounds like Yoko but worse

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What’s your worst album of all time?
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  • erniejadeerniejade Posts: 5,470
    Omg it gets worse! It’s like a bad train wreck I can’t stop listening. It’s horrible.
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  • hochpt21hochpt21 Posts: 5,327
    Album cover is pretty sweet...
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  • chumliechumlie Posts: 8,683
    Trout Mask Replica. May not be the worse but it's the only one I've bought that I can't listen to.
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  • pitdogg2pitdogg2 Posts: 17,870
    Once i heard Yoko sing I thought for sure my hearing would never come back.
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  • erniejadeerniejade Posts: 5,470
    Really check this stuff out. Why didn’t someone’s parents stop them! How did this ever make it to production?
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  • erniejadeerniejade Posts: 5,470
    This album is also getting my worst drummer award.
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  • chumliechumlie Posts: 8,683
    The comments are amusing.
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  • erniejadeerniejade Posts: 5,470
    Thanks for posting the album. See it's so bad but you can't stop. Terrible!. Ok i changed to Montrose to give my ears and brain a break.
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  • mdaudioguymdaudioguy Posts: 5,137
    edited April 2019
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    Once i heard Yoko sing I thought for sure my hearing would never come back.

    Which makes this either the greatest awful album or the worst great album of all time, at least in my mind...
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  • mhardy6647mhardy6647 Posts: 26,899
    I don't know what the worst album of all time is.
    I'd have to think that Mrs. Miller might've been on the short list, though.

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    As I remember, her greatest hit was a memorable, evocative cover of Downtown.



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  • gudnoyezgudnoyez Posts: 7,565
    edited April 2019
    I dont know I've played that Double Fantasy many times dont find anything wrong with it. I guess its both awful good, or good awful.
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  • nooshinjohnnooshinjohn Posts: 23,094
    edited April 2019
    Glad I have Double Fantasy on the hard drive. I can just delete Yoko from the playlist...
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  • erniejadeerniejade Posts: 5,470
    I had to give Mrs. Miller a listen to. While the voice is alongside of really bad karaoke, at least the band in the back is in time with each other. Now it could be the Shaggs could be the offspring of Mrs. Miller?
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  • pitdogg2pitdogg2 Posts: 17,870
    mdaudioguy wrote: »
    pitdogg2 wrote: »
    Once i heard Yoko sing I thought for sure my hearing would never come back.

    Which makes this either the greatest awful album or the worst great album of all time, at least in my mind...
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    They're great songs on that album.
    Mine was from that dreaded plastic ono or whatever that noise was...... she alone was well I can't call it "singing"
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  • Mikey081057Mikey081057 Posts: 7,430
    Eduard Khil

    I can't find the whole album but this one song is enough

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  • Mikey081057Mikey081057 Posts: 7,430
    And here is the 16 hour version

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  • aprazer402aprazer402 Posts: 2,189
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    I'll second that motion.
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  • nooshinjohnnooshinjohn Posts: 23,094
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    I don't know what the worst album of all time is.
    I'd have to think that Mrs. Miller might've been on the short list, though.

    aqpwbuxa0hfg.png


    As I remember, her greatest hit was a memorable, evocative cover of Downtown.



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  • mhardy6647mhardy6647 Posts: 26,899
    aprazer402 wrote: »
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    I'll second that motion.

    but, but... it's not playing!

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  • Tony MTony M Posts: 9,611
    edited April 2019
    Andreas Vollenweider / Eolian Minstrel

    PLEASE DON'T BUY THIS ONE!

    I bought this CD from the Goodwill a week or two ago and I played it in my car. After the first song...I had to eject it to make sure it was Andreas. It was... :s with some woman singing or something she would call singing. :#

    Well a day or two passed and I had to go somewhere else. That stupid CD was still playing. I thought...I hope all tracks don't have that singer doing her thing. Skip...yup :s skip...yup :s OH NO! they all had some pretty good music BUT then in came her... :s .
    Here it is for you guys and gals to see for yourselves. Maybe you'll like her. Andreas let her sing on all these songs for some reason.

    I think I'd have to be in that right mood to like this style. ;)


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  • BlueFoxBlueFox Posts: 14,112
    I guess what I don’t understand is why anyone buys these POS albums. Over the years I have bought various rock albums that I only played once, but never tried to buy an album expecting it to be bad.
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  • mhardy6647mhardy6647 Posts: 26,899
    edited April 2019
    I don't know it there are any records (seems like there were/are), but y'all might want to add the Portsmouth Sinphonia to your list. No less than the redoubtable Brian Eno was a member, in his formative years.




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  • SIHABSIHAB Posts: 1,900
    I own the Shaggs LP. There is a purity there that you just can't find in
    todays music.
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  • delkaldelkal Posts: 737
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    I don't know it there are any records (seems like there were/are), but y'all might want to add the Portsmouth Sinphonia to your list. No less than the redoubtable Brian Eno was a member, in his formative years.




    They were excellent playing on Eno's "Put a Straw under baby". This song is a a fractured nursery rhyme and it is unique to say the least. According to legend he swapped all of the instruments around and people played whatever they got. But maybe the Sinphonia was really that bad?



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  • rpf65rpf65 Posts: 2,132
    With all the bad music out there, I don’t think an album can claim the title of woerse, and least in my opinion.

    Considering there is a complete genre of music that I think every song and artist involved could be in the running for this title, my opinion is close to worthless.
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  • mdaudioguymdaudioguy Posts: 5,137
    rpf65 wrote: »
    With all the bad music out there, I don’t think an album can claim the title of woerse, and least in my opinion.

    Considering there is a complete genre of music that I think every song and artist involved could be in the running for this title, my opinion is close to worthless.

    This probably wasn't meant to be an I don't like this or that genre thread. Think of a genre you like, and then think about the worst attempt at it. I usually don't buy albums without at least one song I know I already like, but I have been disappointed when learning that was the only song I liked!
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  • voltzvoltz Posts: 5,423
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  • delkaldelkal Posts: 737
    I can't believe it but I ended up listening to the whole The Shaggs "Philosophy of the World" in one sitting. This is NOT the worst album in the world. For me it is something unique and has a strange draw to it.

    I previously listed to a clip here and there and had to laugh when I first heard it. They have absolutely no musical talent and it was painful to listen to. But after a few tracks I started to get it. Yes, they still have no musical talent but there is an air of innocence and simplicity that can grow on you if you let it.

    Not sure if I will listen to it again but I am glad I did.
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  • mhardy6647mhardy6647 Posts: 26,899
    edited April 2019
    Frank Zappa was (whether ironically or not, who could say?) a professed (confessed?) fan of the Shaggs.

    http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/The_Shaggs
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  • nooshinjohnnooshinjohn Posts: 23,094
    voltz wrote: »
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    A Tiny Tim/Yoko Ono duet would have been amazing...
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