The Worst Albums in Your Collection...

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Has anyone here ever bought an album and about ten minutes after slapping it into the cd player thought ‘what the hell is this?!?’. - and subsequently thrown said album against the wall?

Or have you ever bought something out of curiousity? For instance, bought a cd by a band you kinda disliked, but wondered what all the fuss was about? And then hated it! And cursed yourself for being soo stupid!

Or how about buying something that you were too afraid too admit to all your ‘cool as fuck’ buddies for fear of reprisal?? Like, um, Audioslave or Foo Fighters or something equally nauseous that you secretly like?

I know I have! This is a list of some of the crap I’ve accumulated over the years but haven’t had the good sense to get rid of. One day I may have the ultimate garage sale, but in the meantime…

Radiohead - Pablo Honey (yikes! an embarrassing start to an otherwise respectful career, if ever there was one)

Gene Loves Jezebel - The House Of Dolls (anyone remember these guys? didn’t think so.)

Alice In Chains - Dirt

Queensryche - Empire (hey, I was only a teenager…)

Blind Melon - Soup (whoops)

Porno For Pyros - Good God’s Urge

Ian Brown - Unfinished Monkey Business (the stone roses this ain’t)

Roger Waters - The Pros And Cons Of Hitch-Hiking (worse than The Wall)

Public Enemy - He Got Game

Marilyn Manson - Portrait Of An American Family (i swear I’ll never do it again…never! you gotta believe me!!)

Killing Joke - Outside The Gate (shudder!)

David Bowie - 1. Outside

Bush - Razorblade Suitcase (yes, I was stoned - veeery stoned!)

311 - Transistor (ditto)

Soul Asylum - Grave Dancer’s Union (I have, like, no excuse for this)

plus there’s about twenty or thirty more. But if anyone wants to add to this embarassing list…

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“Alice In Chains - Dirt
Porno For Pyros - Good God’s Urge”

How do you find these embarassing! I know most of the lyrics from ‘Dirt’ was self indulgent shite but the Cantrell’s guitars I found good and ‘Good God’s Urge’ I enjoyed, cant find anything thats overwhelmingly irritating about that album especially if youre not put off by early Janes Addiction or anything.

As for additions to the embarassing pile;

Queens Of The Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyse (no Nick Oliveri = no good Queens of The Stone Age)

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm (I didnt pay for it so I dont regret it but man what terrible English crap)

Godzilla - O.S.T (I still dont know why I got this)

Stone Temple Pilots - Shangri La Dee Da (It stinks, it stinks, it stinks…)

oh, and eh… Houses Of The Mole (woops probably should not have said that)

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Yeah Alice In Chains is awesome, thats one of their better cds, so like what the fudge man? Ha whatever, its all good… EXCEPT FOR THESE CDS THAT I HAVE SADLY PAID FOR:

Linkin Park: Hybrid Theory. They were the coolest thing in the world for about 4 days, then I realized theyre totally retarded, and moved on.

Sugar Ray: 12:01 (Forget the album name fer batum, I think it was this though) Okay Floored was a decent album minus Fly, but this was just all out none sense. Good if your a preppy college bro-ish kinda person. Not good if you have a higher IQ than 80.

I know theres more but those are the bigger dissapointments that I can remember. By the way, was NIck Oliveri the bass player for QOTSA? If so, thats crap that he left, he was doing alright.

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Eminem - MarshallMathers LP
- 2nd album I ever bought ( To be honest I don’t hate it that much, about 3 good songs though and the rest is filler.)

Tubeway Army - The Dramatis Project
Basically Gary Numan, minus all the themes that made Gary any good, and minus Gary himself (except for one song), minus any form of musicianship whatsoever and with a really shitty cover. Trash.

Probably the only ones I would really consider embarasing, but then, my record collection is only about 100 CDs strong anyway.

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David Bowie - 1. Outside

one of bowie’s best albums, sure, some shit on it is weird and unnecessary, but it has at least half of good songs. much better than his 80’s crap.

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Ah, just remembered, a Chef (from Southpark) cassette single, “Chocolate salty balls”…classic :slight_smile:

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Vampire Rodents - LULLABY LAND

Josh Wink - HEREHEAR (I like the song about the radio, in his video… this sucks)

Just off the top of my head…

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Oh, there’s some bad. Usually I’m able to blame on buying to listen to around girlfriends.

-Hoobastank - Self Titled
-Incubus - Morning View (terrible… just, ugh, makes me sick)
-Hot Hot Heat - Make Up The Breakdown
-sigh… Kottonmouth Kings… I fell into a bad crowd for a bit. It still keeps me awake at night as the horrors that made me purchase multiple Kottonmouth Kings albums. The bad combination of skateboarding and drug use at the age of 15 and 16.

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Many on this board are probably too young to remember Fine Young Cannibals, but the Raw and the Cooked was actually the first CD I ever purchased. As I recall, it cost around $17 at the time. Other embarassing purchases included Journey and Milli Vanilli. I was a very confused young man…

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Many on this board are probably too young to remember Fine Young Cannibals, but the Raw and the Cooked was actually the first CD I ever purchased. As I recall, it cost around $17 at the time. Other embarassing purchases included Journey and Milli Vanilli. I was a very confused young man…

I remember that FYC CD fondly (I’m 34, so that was right at the end of high school). Yeah, “She Drives Me Crazy” is worn out, but I still really like “Don’t Look Back”. Oh, and before I saw the light and got into many forms of alternative music, I was an admitted Journey freak as a kid. I grew up on Escape, Frontiers, and Raised On Radio, so call me crazy, but I still like those albums!

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This might sound retarded, but one of my earliest memories is of hearing “She Drives Me Crazy” on the radio when I was in Germany as a kid, would have only been about 3 years old at the time. I still love that song :slight_smile:

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Bowie’s Outside is incredible. It was his return to music instead of money making drivel (aside from the previous album ‘Buddha of Suburbia’, which was heard precisely nowhere). As for stinkers, I’ve got some real jems -
Roger Waters : The Wall Live in Berlin - performed live with…Brian Adams? Sinead O’Connor? It’s craptacular!
The Symphonic Pink Floyd - Doesn’t sound like Floyd. Doesn’t sound like a symphony. Doesn’t even sound like elevator music.
Another Prick in the Wall - The second of the “goddamnit, I could’ve spent this money on weed” Ministry Tribute series.
Smashing Pumpkins : Adore - a portent of the Zwan to come, this album just licks my ass. Damn you, Corgan.
It’s a good thing I need to pick up my daughter from school, or I would spend all day at this…

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The Symphonic Pink Floyd

Believe it or not, Jaz Coleman was the one who orchestrated these pieces…

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Ministry - Dark Side of the Spoon
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
Soulfly - 3
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
Machine Head - Sliver Single
Anacrusis - Manic Impressions

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Anacrusis - Manic Impressions

No way! This album totally rules, I have no idea what makes you hate it.

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Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing

Oh but come on… its metal… for Jesus! True story, the original singer quit the band due to the band being terrible sinners and him not being able to take cigarette smoke at shows. Not to go all nukefrance on the guy but… pussy.

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Every once in a while going through stuff, crap from my Junior High days pops up. I just found my Slaughter and White Lion tapes. Twisted Sister I can stand behind, but lord, Slaughter and White Lion were awful.

I have a bunch of vinyl taken from abandoned family members’ collections that was just too weird to let go. Including not 1, but 2 Leonard Nimoy albums. One one of them, Leonard sings The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins; Star Trek guy singing about Lord of the Rings guy; nerdgasm of the highest order.

Buckner & Garcia - Pac-Man Fever; kept partly out of my insane love for Pac-Man as a young 'un & I like the cover, mostly because it’s just so goofy.

Saturday Night Fiedler - Fiedler and the Boston Pops; in an attempt to be hip, a bunch of disco classics are done classical style. There’s even something on there called Bachmania. Sadly, I haven’t made it to Bachmania, because as hilarious as the idea sounds, the album is so incredibly awful that I haven’t made it past Stayin Alive yet.

Big pile of Frankie Yankovic polka records- too goofy to let go, and loads of fun after x amount of beers.

A couple of KC and the Sunshine Band records; frankly, I like KC and the Sunshine Band.

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Most of the Wumpscut albums I have. And Manson.

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Fear Factory - Demanufacture

You mean you don’t like an album where all the songs sound just like each other and they don’t ever get tired of using palm muting and how each song sounds like Thieves?

Why not?! hehe…older FF was alright. Their best songs are covers anyhow (ie. Dog Day Sunrise).

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Manson’s in there somewhere…going through my tapes a minute ago, I also came across some Slaughter. I didn’t even know I had that…along with G n’ R, Journey, Stacey Q (two of hearts!), Fiona Apple, Pearl Jam, Enya, and some other junk. I did come across my old Cool World soundtrack, though. I forgot Ministry was even on it!