And now for another of those timeless topics that unites us all: music that is so completely awful, that it becomes something like a transcendental, mystical experience.
Can you recommend any records that, even though they may be ‘crap’ in the eyes of anyone who can form a reasoned opinion, you just keep coming back to?
One candidate for me would have to be the cornball, pseudo-Crowley lounge antics of [url http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8k7m4e2TYeU/SsSr-217UpI/AAAAAAAAGPA/gQpF4qK3BvA/s1600-h/palmer_rocky6.jpg]Palmer Rockey, as displayed on his massively awkward “ROCKEY’S STYLE: MOVIE ALBUM” LP. You can now listen to this fantastic disaster on iTunes after a long layoff period in which maybe 5 people had heard of it.
[url http://www.lysergia.com/LamaReviews/reviews6.htm#PALMER%20ROCKEY]The guy’s back story is also nothing short of hilarious (I’d re-hash it in full here, but the good folks at “lysergia.com” have written it up in an entertaining way that I don’t think I can top.) I love the whole bit about him fleecing Dallas society women to make his Ed Wood-like exploitation movie.
Anyway, do yourself a favor and just cough up the 99 cents to download his con-man lounge classic “Feelings of Love” , there’s no parody of this music that can even come close to being this ridiculous.
I am currently without my copy of “HULK RULES” which is a rap-rock-metal extravaganza from Hulk Hogan and the Wrestling Boot Traveling Band, but it is one of my favorite albums of all time.
Another that is in constant rotation in my car is WILLIAM HUNG’S “INSPIRATION”. It is absolutely amazing.
I am currently without my copy of “HULK RULES” which is a rap-rock-metal extravaganza from Hulk Hogan and the Wrestling Boot Traveling Band, but it is one of my favorite albums of all time.
Hahaha so, surely you’re aware of Randy Savage’s likeminded mean streets opus “BE A MAN?” Pure, unadulterated irritainment.
I’m away from my PC but most of Dee Dee Ramone’s solo stuff (especially under his rapper name, Dee Dee King) is transcendently awful. Mind blowing greatness.
I’m away from my PC but most of Dee Dee Ramone’s solo stuff (especially under his rapper name, Dee Dee King) is transcendently awful. Mind blowing greatness.
Correct!
The “Funky Man” single is incredible; it takes a special skill to make something that boneheaded - again, stuff that’s INTENDED as a comical send-up of the genre doesn’t come close.
I am currently without my copy of “HULK RULES” which is a rap-rock-metal extravaganza from Hulk Hogan and the Wrestling Boot Traveling Band, but it is one of my favorite albums of all time.
Even though it has the classic hit “Beach Patrol,” it has nothing on Macho Man’s album. Even Jesse Ventura has Hogan beat.
I am currently without my copy of “HULK RULES” which is a rap-rock-metal extravaganza from Hulk Hogan and the Wrestling Boot Traveling Band, but it is one of my favorite albums of all time.
Ok. Admittedly it’s going to be VERY hard to top that.
A bunch of kids singing (miming?) along to classic Devo tracks. Awful in just about every conceivable fashion, it’s still a trainwreck that is very difficult to turn away from. I sit there, listening, thinking: How much worse can this get? Can it get worse? Can it?
And of course, it can.
Also, Billy Idol’s Cyberpunk deserves an honorable mention here.
I forget which trip to Chicago it was, either Retrospectacle or NYE Jesus Lizards reunion, but i. found a CD that just said “Pirhana Man” and it was recordings of this foreign guy doing terrible karaoke. It’s really something else.
Most Ozzy fans I talk to hate this album, but I’d go as far as saying it’s his best work along with Diary Of A Madman and No More Tears.
NIN - The Slip
Definitely an album that needs to be heard live. If only the Lights In The Sky movie was able to see the light of day. Maybe Trent wouldn’t be talking shit about The Slip now.
PIG - Genuine American Monster
I’ve never heard Raymond put out a bad record (except for those last couple of KMFDM albums he was on), but this one had the most filler out of all the PIG albums. Could’ve been way better if you knock off everything in between “Black Brothel” and “A Fate Worse Than Death.” Also knock off “Inside,” that horrible remix of “Save Me” that had no place on the album whatsoever and put “Spank The Monkey” back on there and you could even throw “Fuck Me I’m Sick (As Fuck)” on there for shits and giggles and you’ve got a solid album.
Mayhem - Chimera
Pretty much the same opinion as Ultimate Sin, but I’ve found it easier to find people who like this more than people who like Ultimate Sin. This is my favorite Mayhem recording of all time.
Skinny Puppy - The Process
Even I’ll say this one hasn’t aged well, but I’d still put it over everything they’ve done after it.
His style - apparently popular with Seoul cab drivers trying to stay awake - is this insane mix of rhythm box, tinny keyboards and E-Pak Sa’s possessed vocals. He used to “tour” by just pulling up his bus to busy urban locations, getting out of the bus with his keyboard man, jamming some tunes and then splitting the scene.
I can’t make out anything he says in his music except for the occasional shouts of “Monkey Monkey Magic!!! Monkey Magic!”, but his repertoire of whoops, shrieks, mutters etc. is (another recurring theme) crazier than most people who set out to be ‘crazy.’ In terms of single-minded extremity, “Psy” and other K-pop phenomena have nothing on it.
Okay, I forget what the name of their album even is, but here’s one for our punk / metal / crossover contingent: there is a Christian hardcore band, “Lust Control,” who write bucketloads of sanctimonious songs encouraging abstinence and so on.
[url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esy2b7qA9U4#t=15]This song in particular will suck the fun out of any party, and people will still stand there gathering flies in their mouths after their jaws have dropped to the floor. They will almost certainly hear this rattling around in their brains the next time they make any attempts at, uh, “self love.”
The singer’s advice for overcoming the curse of “idle hands” is priceless: “stop…do a guitar solo instead!!!”
Besides the Shatner and Hulkster records, I will add:
Pastor John Rydgren, Silhouette Segments.
Great record - its a pastor ‘rapping’ to youths of the 1960s about how cool the Lord is, all while incorporating the hits of the day as audio beds. It’s actually in probably my top 50 records of all time, no fooling. Get a truncated version free here:
Talk about exploitative! Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit puts out a metal/Ween-influenced record and it is truly out there. Mostly raucous, full on novelty. Can’t imagine how many Bizkit fans bought this and freaked out how awful it was - which it isn’t if your expectations are low! I can’t believe they even got a video on MTV:
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