[Closed] What's the worst album you ever bought?

Iron Maiden - 7th Son has not aged particularly well at all.

Rubbish. It's still a great 5/5 album.

I still listen to Druqks and still very much enjoy it.

I also owned the Mense@r [?] album, I was 14. I didn't know any better.

Listen to the lyrics

You could say that about any Biohazard album, and there were much worse to come.

Personally, I never bought a Biohazard album for the lyrics.

unklehomered - Member

One Hot Minute by the Chili Peppers

Seriously?

Yup. Gave it as many listens as I could stand but it didn't work at all for me. I was never a Chilis purist though, I don't have anything pre Blood Sugar Sex Magik and the Californication/By The Way era was probably the point that I liked them most. My interest in them has certainly waned since then, but I'd be surprised if that resulted in an increased appreciation for One Hot Minute compared to the other albums.

Seth Lakeman...

Y'know, I thought I'd give it a go.. I tried. Being a fan of Kate Rusby and a few other Folkies' I just thought I'd try to expand my musical taste, I think I found my limit, sorry Seth.

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gobuchul - Member
Antony and the Johnsons - I am a bird now.

Dreadful.

Really? Love that, still listen to it regularly. My eldest hates it though, sot it gets more plays than it normally would 😆

Will someone just post the Mal/butwhateerohforgetit .gif and we can move on from this "when RHCP went shit" bit 😉

You could say that about any Biohazard album, and there were much worse to come.

Personally, I never bought a Biohazard album for the lyrics.

😆

no me neither - in fact I very rarely even notice lyrics - but there's something about that album that just really winds me up!

I always enjoyed Drukqs though.

Iron Maiden - 7th Son has not aged particularly well at all.

I reckon it's the production on that. Soft keyboards, shiny big-budget arrangements - it totally lacks the ragged edge of the pre-85 era. But on a song level, I think 7th Son is up there with the likes of Ancient Mariner. Saw them do it live a few years back actually, and in a concert setting it was much better than the album version 😀

Didn't buy it, but was subjected to it daily in the car by an ex-girlfriend-

"Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?" by The Cranberries.

My. God. Just...that woman's voice. Sounded like she was alternately stifling a sob and/or trying not to spew. As was I.

Basic 3-chord guitars with awful lyrics.

Shudder.

The best of Dexy's Midnight Runners. What can I say? It was Britannia Music Club and I had to buy something that month.

[quote=codybrennan ]Didn't buy it, but was subjected to it daily in the car by an ex-girlfriend-
"Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?" by The Cranberries.
My. God. Just...that woman's voice. Sounded like she was alternately stifling a sob and/or trying not to spew. As was I.
Basic 3-chord guitars with awful lyrics.
Shudder.

Yet sold millions and millions of copies.

Absolutely abysmal. She's obscenely rich as a result 😕

Something by Clawfinger in the 90's. RATM were a brilliant band, but in a similar vein to PJ are kind of responsible for a flood of truly horrendous copy cat bands 🙁

Yet sold millions and millions of copies.

Absolutely abysmal. She's obscenely rich as a result

Feel comforted that this sort of travesty can never happen again, what with artists receiving 0.00000001p per play, from spotify. Or something like that.

Literally the first record I ever bought:

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I will carry that regret to my grave.

Didn't buy it, but was subjected to it daily in the car by an ex-girlfriend-

"Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?" by The Cranberries.

My. God. Just...that woman's voice. Sounded like she was alternately stifling a sob and/or trying not to spew. As was I.

Basic 3-chord guitars with awful lyrics.

Shudder.

Something by Clawfinger in the 90's. RATM were a brilliant band, but in a similar vein to PJ are kind of responsible for a flood of truly horrendous copy cat bands

like Biohazard? 😉 😆

I had a couple of Clawfinger albums on tape. One of them had that track 'N*****r' which doesn't really merit being named in full here. They were crap. But at least I didn't pay for them 😀

Swedish rap-rock attempting to deal with American social and political issues. What could possibly go wrong? 😆

Clawfinger never did a good album but Biggest And the Best and Do As I Saw were tunes.

Mine is a Miles Davis compilation I bought in an attempt to broaden my musical experience. I guess it did broaden it inasmuch as it redefined awful. Basically every other album I owned gained 2 stars as a result of the recalibration required.

I had a couple of Clawfinger albums on tape. One of them had that track 'N

That's the one, paid £14 for it too!

It's only the fact I've never bought an album by the pub singer bitch that any of Adele's albums aren't on here.

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Swordfish Trombones, the title should have warned me off! 😉

Rollin by the bay city rollers (I was only 10 in my defence). As a grown up songs from Ally McBeal by Vonda Shepherd is hard to defend.

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My disgust knows no bounds....

I've bought a fair few howlers myself - probably more than most. However, this thread is a real tonic!

I bought the Milli Vanilli album.....I had been a fan of Boney M too,but only bought their singles.
Btw ,I think raceface clinches the win with Bros!

i really wanted that Bros album!

In the music shop one Saturday morning and I hear this fantastic instrumental jam with astoundingly good bass guitar.
Thinking that it must be a new release by Rush, I enquire as to the group being played and the proprietor (Gandalf) points to a cd by a German prog rock combo called 'Spocks Beard'.

I happily hand over the cash and head back home.

maybe he pointed to the wrong cd, because this had to be the most dreary, dismal, and turgid cd I've ever experienced.
No super duper bass work, and as far as I recall, it was a double album!

Roger Waters, Amused to Death.

Hated it, even after listening to it a few times.

A week later, I had a tune in my head, it was off the album, but which song, I listened again...

This repeated itself over and over until I finally realised what an awesome album it is.

Whoa there Pimpmaster - Phunk Junkeez?
I mean it's got some pretty guff tracks on it and I'm sure it's a disappointment after watching Kranked 2... (Wow there's some seriously good tracks on that!)

But no way the worst ever...

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Dr and the Medics. A full album.
Oh lordy.
I'm sure there's more in the attic of similar quality.
I feel cleansed now 🙂

I have 2 copies of the miseducation of lauryn hill. All the cool kids liked her at the time and I suppose I must've bought at least one of the two I "own". Turgid, tryhard (to sound like you're not trying) formulaic shit IM(not very cool)O

Also, the eponymous crime against music by the hindu love gods - another review inspired bucket-o'-shite

and, if I'm honest, whatever the first suede record was called

Dr and the Medics

And what makes it worse I still have the Vinyl somewhere

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Septic Death - Now That I Have The Attention What Do I Do With It, if anyone wants to look it up.

Some Brecker Brothers new age jazz carp. Awful. Never played again.

Trout Mask Replica. What is that all about?

Seth Lakeman...

Just giving it a listen on spotify, I really like it.

Proving that art is in the eye of the beholder.#

So my Friday EDL is home made turkey burgers, real ale and Seth Lakeman

'Spit' by Kittie, a truly awful all female 'nu' metal group, I've regretted it ever since. I'll also second 'Misery loves Co', bought it off the back of one single and the album was depressingly awful.

Nine Inch Nails Broken. Remember buying it as an obsessive Reznor fan in the early 90s.

Absolute shite.

Whitesnake - 'Trouble'.

Grievous. I was a teen and just really liked the badass cover art. It belied the soft poncense within.

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Nightfreak and the sons of becker by The Coral.

acoustic toxic effluent.

On CD so initially caused me great dispair that it couldn't even be turned into somthing half useful such as an ashtray like you could with an old LP until I realised that it made a handy coaster for my coffee mug. I left it in an office in Turin.

'Pop Art' by Transvision Vamp.

Pubescent lust for the lead singer and (now) inexplicable appreciation of the 'I want your love' single led me to spend 2 weeks of paper round earnings on my first ever album.

McAlmont & Butler on the strength(?) of the single that I can't even remember the name of!
Terrible, played it twice at most

Worst I have, but I don't think I paid for was a record being flogged by people from ISKCON[Krishna consciousness]. This hot hippie chic was flogging the records, and she flogged it to a mate, I came away with a copy not sure if it was his copy or if I blagged a copy.
It's a very bad record. I may have to get it out and play it, probably hasn't been played since 1975, may be it's got better!

"The Yes Album" by, er, "Yes".

Weirdly, really liked it at the time, but listening again after all these years courtesy of Qobuz, I have to ask myself "WTF was I thinking"?

Still got a soft spot for "Close To The Edge", mind... 😳