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Archae

(46,335 posts)
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 07:19 AM Oct 2012

What was the worst album you ever bought, or someone in your family bought?

My parents went to Disney World, in the early 70's.

Mom brought back the album of "It's A Small World."

I quickly got sick of it, but it took years for my little sisters to get sick of it.

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What was the worst album you ever bought, or someone in your family bought? (Original Post) Archae Oct 2012 OP
a relative gave me a ted nugent album once. CBGLuthier Oct 2012 #1
Butt Trumpet - Primitive Enema RevStPatrick Oct 2012 #2
When I was 13 (in '89), I wanted Frampton Comes Alive for Christmas sadbear Oct 2012 #3
You got hosed dvhughes Oct 2012 #59
Yeah, I got some Christmas money sadbear Oct 2012 #65
Backstreet Boys sakabatou Oct 2012 #4
Quite possibly the worst album pipi_k Oct 2012 #5
Oh ye gawds. We had our own version when I was a kid, Mrs Miller. Archae Oct 2012 #42
Friends of mine got me a gag gift - A Donny Osmond album with him in a white suit with a white piano HopeHoops Oct 2012 #6
I'll bet there are tons pipi_k Oct 2012 #8
Yeah, when I find it, I'm going to sell it on eBay. HopeHoops Oct 2012 #10
I Remember Neil Young Zuma being shit Rambis Oct 2012 #7
I have one by Neil Young to record. Archae Oct 2012 #27
You must be misremembering radiclib Oct 2012 #35
Re-ac-tor rocks... lame54 Oct 2012 #48
The Shaggs' "Philosophy of the World" hifiguy Oct 2012 #9
This. geardaddy Oct 2012 #11
Those are selling for about 75 bucks on ebay. progressoid Oct 2012 #61
gonna get flamed for this but.. Fix The Stupid Oct 2012 #12
No flames...I like "Carolina In My Mind" and "Sweet Baby James" TwilightGardener Oct 2012 #14
I just recorded that one a few days ago. Archae Oct 2012 #18
La la la la ladie da Kolesar Oct 2012 #19
I never really pipi_k Oct 2012 #24
I don't think anybody has "hyped" James Taylor in about 40 years... Jeff In Milwaukee Oct 2012 #36
Curtis Knight "Get That Feeling" featuring Jimi Hendrix aint_no_life_nowhere Oct 2012 #13
Speaking of Hendrix... begin_within Oct 2012 #16
I had the 45 of Small World, too Art_from_Ark Oct 2012 #44
Yes, mine has the alternate languages on the flip side. begin_within Oct 2012 #46
The jacket of the Small World 45 noted it was the official song Art_from_Ark Oct 2012 #68
That is a truly terrible record. Did you know that Curtis Knight's day job was as a pimp... Tom Ripley Oct 2012 #22
Chic, "Le Freak" TwilightGardener Oct 2012 #15
During the disco era, I picked up a plain white album that had a disco version of "Whole Lotta Love" begin_within Oct 2012 #17
My friend has a CD from Nickelback MattBaggins Oct 2012 #20
Metallica 'Load' Populist_Prole Oct 2012 #21
My husband also bailed on them in the early 90's, after TwilightGardener Oct 2012 #23
I wish you'da asked me first OriginalGeek Oct 2012 #40
Boston's first album. kurtzapril4 Oct 2012 #25
so no one's gonna cop to Milli Vanilli or Vanilla Ice? NightWatcher Oct 2012 #26
I bought Milli Vanilli! femmocrat Oct 2012 #30
Okay, I admit it, I bought Vanilla Ice on cassette tape. Arugula Latte Oct 2012 #55
Mom, normally known for exquisite musical taste, bought a Christian compilation album KamaAina Oct 2012 #28
My SO loves Tommy Conwell & the Young Rumblers Patiod Oct 2012 #29
ACKKK!!! Archae Oct 2012 #31
Head palm indeed. Patiod Oct 2012 #32
Must be the equivalent of Donnie Iris in western PA. TwilightGardener Oct 2012 #33
Led Zeppelin "In Through the Out Door" Throd Oct 2012 #34
Yeah I remember when that first came out Populist_Prole Oct 2012 #43
I was lucky in that I found out about Zep OriginalGeek Oct 2012 #52
I win Jeff In Milwaukee Oct 2012 #37
Hey, I watched on TV their musical-variety show! Archae Oct 2012 #53
Yep... Jeff In Milwaukee Oct 2012 #54
She is ROCKING that cabasa! progressoid Oct 2012 #64
I don't listen to any of the albums my parents listen to sakabatou Oct 2012 #38
Limp Bizkit's first album ButterflyBlood Oct 2012 #39
One year for christmas OriginalGeek Oct 2012 #41
Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music Kolesar Oct 2012 #45
I used that album and Yoko Ono's hifiguy Oct 2012 #47
A couple of years later, you could have sold that copy of MMM... Tom Ripley Oct 2012 #51
I was rooked into buying it the day it came out, but I still really appreciate the intent... Tom Ripley Oct 2012 #49
Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space AgingAmerican Oct 2012 #50
I had that! And I gave it away to another Trek fan. progressoid Oct 2012 #62
The Peter Pan Star Trek Records amuse me. hunter Oct 2012 #69
I can't remember the name of the CD Broken_Hero Oct 2012 #56
Remember that song "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer"? Mr.Bill Oct 2012 #57
lol - I had the 45 OriginalGeek Oct 2012 #60
Anything by the Grateful Dead..... dvhughes Oct 2012 #58
Around 1973-74 i Gemany, I bought "Just a Poke" by Sweet Smoke on the strength of its cover. MiddleFingerMom Oct 2012 #63
A Regis & Cathy Lee Christmas ... ouch! rtassi Oct 2012 #66
Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends kwassa Oct 2012 #67

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
1. a relative gave me a ted nugent album once.
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 08:21 AM
Oct 2012

but the "worst" I ever bought was Klaatu's third album, Sir Army Suit.

After two albums that were fresh and original they delivered something that was just a collection of pop tunes. Very disappointing.

 

RevStPatrick

(2,208 posts)
2. Butt Trumpet - Primitive Enema
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 08:22 AM
Oct 2012

So horribly bad...



Includes such classic crap as "Funeral Crashing Tonite."



pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
5. Quite possibly the worst album
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 10:11 AM
Oct 2012

by the worst singer ever....

"Wing Sings"

Check out some of her stuff on You Tube.

I'd post a link but don't want to be responsible for causing DU to explode in a flaming mess of blood and guts and body parts.

 

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)
6. Friends of mine got me a gag gift - A Donny Osmond album with him in a white suit with a white piano
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 10:15 AM
Oct 2012

on railroad tracks. I have no idea what that was all about, but it's still sealed in the original plastic wrap, with the discount rack notch in the cover.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
8. I'll bet there are tons
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 10:28 AM
Oct 2012

of people willing to pay thousands of dollars for that album on eBay.

Or not.

anyway, maybe it signified Donny's own suspicion that he should be hit by a speeding train for the crap he inflicted on the world...

radiclib

(1,811 posts)
35. You must be misremembering
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 11:04 PM
Oct 2012

Maybe you're thinking of *re-act-or* or "Landing On Water" or some shit (Neil has put out more than a little)
but ZUMA is a masterpiece.

lame54

(35,293 posts)
48. Re-ac-tor rocks...
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 12:31 PM
Oct 2012

He got sued by his record label for putting out something so - non-maistream
it doesn't get cooler than that



 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
9. The Shaggs' "Philosophy of the World"
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 10:39 AM
Oct 2012

Hearing one track is amusing. Hearing any more is enough to make standing on your head in a bucket of live squid sound like sweet relief.

Fix The Stupid

(948 posts)
12. gonna get flamed for this but..
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 01:21 PM
Oct 2012

Best of James Taylor.

Or something like that. All his "hits"...lol.

Anything after "fire and rain" (Thats why I bought it, to learn that song) - just sucks...

I don't get the hype about this guy...

To each their own, I guess..

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
14. No flames...I like "Carolina In My Mind" and "Sweet Baby James"
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 01:45 PM
Oct 2012

along with "Fire And Rain"--I don't like his cheesier stuff.

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
24. I never really
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 03:33 PM
Oct 2012

cared for him much, either.

There are only two of his songs I like...

"Her Town Too" and "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight"

otherwise....

nahhh

Oh wait...add "Mockingbird" with Carly Simon.

but that's it.

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
36. I don't think anybody has "hyped" James Taylor in about 40 years...
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 11:05 PM
Oct 2012

any more than they have "hyped" Jan & Dean.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
13. Curtis Knight "Get That Feeling" featuring Jimi Hendrix
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 01:44 PM
Oct 2012

I was a Hendrix nut (still am) in the late 60s and bought this album featuring an early performance of Hendrix on guitar when he was a member of Curtis Knight and the Squires. The singing of Curtis Knight was horrible, the tunes were rank, and Hendrix really didn't get a chance to stretch out and show his guitar brilliance.

By the way, "It's A Small World" still haunts my nightmares after a trip to Disneyland in 1986. I don't even want to stick around here and contemplate it lest it starts playing again in my head. The only cure for it I've known is this (notice it's a 10 hour loop) and I think I'm off to Youtube now:


 

begin_within

(21,551 posts)
16. Speaking of Hendrix...
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 01:54 PM
Oct 2012

I bought what I think is his worst album, released posthumously, "High Live and Dirty" and it's on clear red vinyl. Just a live concert where he jams with Jim Morrison and Johnny Winter, only 5 songs and none are any good, and they lyrics are x-rated but barely intelligible. I don't see how there could be a worse Hendrix album.

And by the way, I bought the 45 of "it's a small world" when I was a little kid! Ha ha!

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
44. I had the 45 of Small World, too
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 06:02 AM
Oct 2012

On one side was the full English version, on the other side were versions in various other languages. One was Japanese, which I couldn't make heads or tails of at the time. Now that I've spent a considerable part of my life in Japan, I wonder if I would finally be able to understand it?

 

begin_within

(21,551 posts)
46. Yes, mine has the alternate languages on the flip side.
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 10:07 AM
Oct 2012

I haven't looked at it in decades but it's probably the same...

Everyone maligns that song and it is irritating and can be an earworm.

One thing I noticed, however, last time I was at Disneyland... we went on that ride, and the sound system they have is superb, with high-quality sound and deep, rich bass... when you hear it like that it's far less irritating and actually enjoyable, a completely different experience and appropriate with what you're looking at. Though after an 11-minute ride you definitely don't want to hear it any more. We were on the wheelchair-capable boat and they couldn't get it unlocked and they asked us if we wanted to go through again and I said, "No!!"

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
68. The jacket of the Small World 45 noted it was the official song
Thu Oct 4, 2012, 07:38 AM
Oct 2012

of the 1964 World's Fair in New York. I didn't even know what a world's fair was in those days, but someone told me it was like a county fair, only a little bigger

 

Tom Ripley

(4,945 posts)
22. That is a truly terrible record. Did you know that Curtis Knight's day job was as a pimp...
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 03:15 PM
Oct 2012

and that his "musical career" (including that recording) was no more than a vanity project?

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
15. Chic, "Le Freak"
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 01:48 PM
Oct 2012

Disclaimer: I did not buy this. It was in our house when I was a kid, though, so SOMEONE did.

 

begin_within

(21,551 posts)
17. During the disco era, I picked up a plain white album that had a disco version of "Whole Lotta Love"
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 01:56 PM
Oct 2012

and other 70s's hits. The title of the album is "You've Never Been Hit So Hard." I still have it, though I haven't played it in 35 years.

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Youve-Never-Been-Hit-So-Hard-Phase-2/release/1551876

MattBaggins

(7,904 posts)
20. My friend has a CD from Nickelback
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 02:22 PM
Oct 2012

When you only pay a nickel to see a band but they are so damn awful that you actually want your Nickelback.

He thinks it was a good buy.

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
21. Metallica 'Load'
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 03:02 PM
Oct 2012

It was new and some people I know raved about it, and so I figured it would be another good work from the speed metal masters. I was SO disappointed. It's the last album I ever bought from any band "on faith" ever again. Wanna' hear the kicker? I went and bought 'Reload' because other's said it was a huge improvement over 'Load'. No it wasn't: More of the same slow, plodding faux angst of a once great metal band trying to go "alternative". Well that's the last time I bought an album without first hearing it all. Turns out the people giving me advice never even heard their earlier stuff, but were bandwagon jumpers once 'Load/Reload' got so much radio airplay.

TwilightGardener

(46,416 posts)
23. My husband also bailed on them in the early 90's, after
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 03:29 PM
Oct 2012

'Metallica'--that was the last album he liked of theirs. That said, he bought a Wilco album (their most recent) as soon as it was released, "on faith", entirely because he had liked some songs on 'Sky Blue Sky'. Of course, he doesn't like anything on it.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
40. I wish you'da asked me first
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 12:10 AM
Oct 2012

I wouldn't have let you buy either of those.



But then, I thought their black album was a sellout piece of shit too so I wouldn't have let you buy that either.

I still listen to their first four albums - all of which I own on vinyl - but I ONLY listen to the mp3s I got from napster.


Fuck Lars.

kurtzapril4

(1,353 posts)
25. Boston's first album.
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 06:42 PM
Oct 2012

My sister bought it and played it and played it and played it and played it......

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)
26. so no one's gonna cop to Milli Vanilli or Vanilla Ice?
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 06:47 PM
Oct 2012

Girl you know it's true.....I think I just outed myself on that one

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
30. I bought Milli Vanilli!
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 09:56 PM
Oct 2012

I even got back $2.00 in the class action suit when it was disclosed that they lip-synced.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
28. Mom, normally known for exquisite musical taste, bought a Christian compilation album
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 07:42 PM
Oct 2012

because it had a song called "Wait'll You Hear This" by Noel Paul Stookey (Paul of Peter, Paul and Mary) and she had a mad crush on him. She even managed to get backstage at one of their concerts, but found herself speechless!

Patiod

(11,816 posts)
29. My SO loves Tommy Conwell & the Young Rumblers
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 09:54 PM
Oct 2012

they make me want to gouge my eardrums out.

If you don't know who that is, you're lucky. It's a Philly thing....

Archae

(46,335 posts)
31. ACKKK!!!
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 09:59 PM
Oct 2012

I just listened to them (for about 15 seconds) on Youtube.

Not a bad guitar player but then the guy with the guitar made a horrible mistake.
He opened his mouth.

Populist_Prole

(5,364 posts)
43. Yeah I remember when that first came out
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 01:36 AM
Oct 2012

It was a long time since their last release and was much anticipated. I got to hear it, and I was waiting for the soft stuff to give way to some rocking stuff but it never happened. I remember thinking that if one could stitch together the best parts of all songs they'd still be hard pressed to come up with a solid rocker of even 3 minutes. Most knew it sucked but the die-hard LZ fans tried to rationalize it even as the cognitive dissonance must've churned their innards something awful.

Epilogue: I've made peace with the album and have come to appreciate it in many ways, and can even say I'm glad I have it. Still though; that was a terrible effort for a comback album for a band that really needed one.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
52. I was lucky in that I found out about Zep
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 02:16 PM
Oct 2012

after John Bonham had died. So I pretty much got introduced to all their stuff at once. I never had the worry of waiting for the next release and finding it to be too soft for my tastes. I can honestly say that ITTOD is my least favorite Zep album and still I love it like I love all my other Zep albums. Every song on it. Just for different reasons than say, Black Dog and RnR.

III had a lot of softer stuff on it too. Not many people complain about that one. I guess because it also had Immigrant Song and Since I've Been Loving you. Viking conquest and electric blues all in close proximity.



And I can relate this to modern day Metallica in that I was into Metallica from their first album and anxiously awaited Justice... but was a little disappointed in it. Then I thought the Black album would save them but it was worse. (Sounded like a Bon Jovi record to me and then I found out that it basically was a Bon Jovi record thanks to Bob Rock). Everything after that was complete shit to me. Yet I know kids that don't even like their first 4 albums and LOVE all the stuff after that...

Archae

(46,335 posts)
53. Hey, I watched on TV their musical-variety show!
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 04:05 PM
Oct 2012

It did have one good thing going for it.

One of the comedy writers would do sketches once in a while.
He gave me some good laughs.

His name was David Letterman.
Ever hear of him?

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
54. Yep...
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 04:13 PM
Oct 2012

Dave was also a writer for Mary Tyler Moore's disastrous musical variety series from around that same era.

sakabatou

(42,152 posts)
38. I don't listen to any of the albums my parents listen to
Tue Oct 2, 2012, 11:09 PM
Oct 2012

But I hate myself for liking teen-pop back in the days.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
41. One year for christmas
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 12:13 AM
Oct 2012

when I was in High School, my mom got me a new bible and a Perry Como christmas album.


I'm still not sure which I was most disappointed with.

The bible didn't do me much good but I never even took the shrink wrap off the album.

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)
45. Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 07:32 AM
Oct 2012

My friend bought it just so that he could have it. Reed had a "contractual obligation" to turn out one more album and he recorded--that.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
47. I used that album and Yoko Ono's
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 10:17 AM
Oct 2012

Approximately Infinite Universe to clear the record store I occasionally worked in back in the 1990s when closing time came around. They worked like a charm.

 

Tom Ripley

(4,945 posts)
51. A couple of years later, you could have sold that copy of MMM...
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 01:52 PM
Oct 2012

seriously, I have unloaded seven used copies of it for $30-$50 apiece.

Have you heard the chamber music performance?

 

Tom Ripley

(4,945 posts)
49. I was rooked into buying it the day it came out, but I still really appreciate the intent...
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 01:45 PM
Oct 2012

behind the recording and release of the album. And Reed's liner notes are hilarious.
Uncle Lou also claims to have never listened to the entire record.

 

AgingAmerican

(12,958 posts)
50. Leonard Nimoy Presents Mr. Spock's Music From Outer Space
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 01:47 PM
Oct 2012

My brother had this record, he still does. Probably worth a lot now.

progressoid

(49,991 posts)
62. I had that! And I gave it away to another Trek fan.
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 07:48 PM
Oct 2012

Big mistake. I should have kept it.

I found it at a thrift store in a little town about 20 years ago.

Broken_Hero

(59,305 posts)
56. I can't remember the name of the CD
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 05:14 PM
Oct 2012

but it was that Lou Reed/Metallica cd they did a year or two back, it was god awful.

Mr.Bill

(24,301 posts)
57. Remember that song "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer"?
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 05:45 PM
Oct 2012

By a duo called Patsy and Elmo, I believe. My terminally unhip brother actally paid to see them live and bought the album at the concert. It's autographed. Seriously.

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)
63. Around 1973-74 i Gemany, I bought "Just a Poke" by Sweet Smoke on the strength of its cover.
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 07:48 PM
Oct 2012

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That's the cover on the YouTube full album video below. Turns out they were a progressive
jazz-rock band out of Brooklyn who had moved to Germany to start a commune by the time I
bought it (it came out in 1970). The back cover was a promo picture of the band and they
looked like a bunch of young New Yawkah guys (they were) whose friends and family convinced
them that they were fantastic talents. At the time, I hated the music and figured it was just
a Mom-and-Dad-funded vanity recording (a la Mrs Miller).
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There's just two long jam songs (one on either side of the vinyl). I'm most of the way through
Side 1 at this moment... and I kinda like it. Usually it's the other way around... something I
thought was genius back then gets a "WTF was I thinking?" now.
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Around '68, I was pretty heavy into British blues and MiddleFingerMomSis bought me a Melanie
album ("Brand New Pair of Rollerskates" -- THAT Melanie) and my disappointment/disgust must
have been so plainly registered on my face and she offered to take it back. I tried to cover, but
I've never been a good liar at all, and she got even angrier and grabbed it from me -- and never
did replace it with something else.
.
NOW... I like her voice and would love to have that album
.
But isn't that cover FINE!?!?!?
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kwassa

(23,340 posts)
67. Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 11:12 PM
Oct 2012

I bought is based on all the stars on the record. What a mistake that was. It sucked beyond belief.

Let Wikipedia explain it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Sutch_and_Heavy_Friends

Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends is the debut album of English rock singer Screaming Lord Sutch. Recording began in May 1969 at Mystic Studios in Hollywood and released on Cotillion Records in 1970. The album featured an all-star line-up with contributions from Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page (who also produced the album) and John Bonham, guitarist Jeff Beck, session keyboardist Nicky Hopkins, session guitarist Deniel Edwards and Jimi Hendrix Experience bass-player Noel Redding. Rick Brown and Carlo Little were previously with The Savages. Many of the musicians who sessioned for Sutch on this album had grave misgivings upon its release. They were under the assumption these were demo quality recordings. As a result the artists disowned the project and the album did poorly saleswise. It also seriously damaged Sutch's reputation with the musicians involved. "I just went down to have a laugh, playing some old rock 'n' roll, a bit of a send-up. The whole joke sort of reversed itself and became ugly," Jimmy Page said of the record.[3]

A negative review published in Rolling Stone called Sutch "absolutely terrible" and lamented that under the restrictions of the project, the collection of talented musicians on hand were made to sound "like a fouled parody of themselves".[2]

Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends was named in a 1998 BBC poll as the worst album of all time, a status it also held in Colin Larkin's book The Top 1000 Albums of All Time.


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