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mcnally
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What's the *worst* recording you own?
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Mar 27 08:28 UTC 1997 |
What's the absolute *worst* recording in your collection? I'm not
talking about the biggest disappointment or the one that's most
embarrassing to actually own, I'm talking flat-out unlistenable
no-redeeming-value garbage. If you've got a record-collection of
any size at all I *know* you've got something hideous buried at the
bottom -- why not tell us all what it is so we can either avoid
making the same mistake ourselves or at least have a good laugh at
your expense..
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mcnally
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response 1 of 76:
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Mar 27 08:37 UTC 1997 |
In my case top honors go to Jad Fair's "Greater Expectations."
An (unheard-by-me) collaboration with one of my favorite bands
(Yo La Tengo) sparked a mild interest in Fair's solo work and
his work with his brother in the band Half Japanese.. During
one day's fruitless record-shopping excursion at Tower I decided
to take a chance and select one of his albums since I couldn't
find much else of interest on that fateful day.. I swear by all
that is holy that this is *the* most annoying, dischordant,
unspeakably, indescribably awful music I have ever heard.
I seriously believe that given the chance Dr. Mengele would have
chosen to play this music to the patients in his waiting room.
Hopefully you will never have to deal with an album this terrible
but if are among the unlucky few what would you recommend as an
appropriate disposal procedure?
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senna
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response 2 of 76:
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Mar 27 10:06 UTC 1997 |
Oh, gee, let me think aobut that one ofr a sec... Most of the stuff I ahve
I like, but... I have Fixed somewhere, by NIN (don't ask me why, it's not
really mine) which really doesn't float my boat.
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krj
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response 3 of 76:
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Mar 27 16:54 UTC 1997 |
Mmmm, tough question. THE FIRST FEW DROPS by the Whisky Priests
takes the "worst singer" prize: the guy is incapable of holding a
pitch. But the band's instrumental side is pretty good.
The most useless recent purchase would probably be "Quintette des
Mandolines de Paris." We like French music, we like mandolins, but
even by the standards of cheesy French music this is pretty sad.
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anderyn
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response 4 of 76:
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Mar 28 01:18 UTC 1997 |
Oh, I really can't say... oh, all right, the stupidest purchase
I've made is a Lita Ford compilation disc. I don't even LIKE Lita
Ford.
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orinoco
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response 5 of 76:
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Mar 28 22:02 UTC 1997 |
That's a toughie...I would actually have to say the Beatles anthology, just
because it sounds so unprofessional and ragged that it's hard to listen to.
Beatles fanatics may want to hear what it was like the first time they limped
through their songs, but for me it's just excruciating, especially in
comparison with the polished-sounding versions they released on their real
albums.
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scott
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response 6 of 76:
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Mar 29 00:10 UTC 1997 |
Probably my "Christmas with Slim Whitman" album, which I was given as a joke.
Aside from that, I'm going to go with a Jon Luc Ponty album I got as an
exchange for a damaged album (which the store didn't have another copy of).
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lumen
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response 7 of 76:
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Mar 30 08:44 UTC 1997 |
It's my "bitter" tape, by One Eye Open. It's just an underground recording
made by a band a friend of mine was in. I bought it to support them, and I
didn't even get the cool color jacket I could have gotten (it just a b/w
photocopy). Anyway, I found most of the album was rather bad, save at least
one the local vocational high school station used to play all the time anyway.
he's done better work since. I guess I'm just not all into that garage band
sound.
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snow
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response 8 of 76:
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Apr 5 04:05 UTC 1997 |
I would have to say that the most pathetic album I own would be Pearl Jam's
"Vitalogy." I can't stand it. all the songs are about the same, and...it's
just boring as all hell! I can't stand it, and...uh...if anyone wants to buy
it, well... I'm willing to get rid of it ;)
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mcnally
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response 9 of 76:
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Apr 5 08:31 UTC 1997 |
I'm really going to have to have a record party sometime to give
my worst albums a public listening. As little as I care for Pearl
Jam about the worst you can say about their music is that it's not
particularly original or interesting. I've got things in my CD
collection that Man Was Not Meant to Listen To -- things that are
just blood-curdlingly bad..
Aside from the Jad Fair album mentioned in #1 there's also this
amazingly annoying album by Fred Frith entitled "Guitar Solos".
I don't know *what* I was thinking when I bought that.. Word to
the wise -- *never* buy an album of experimental guitar solos with
tracks with names like "Alienated Industrial Seagulls."
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scott
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response 10 of 76:
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Apr 5 13:55 UTC 1997 |
I'd be interested in hearing that, actually!
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raven
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response 11 of 76:
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Apr 5 16:56 UTC 1997 |
One my meats ambrosia ia another mans poison. I kind of like that Frith album,
(at least what I've heard of it) but isn't something I would listen to very
often. The worst album I ever bought I think would have to In-ga-da-vida by
Iron Butterfly <yech, ouch, etc>.
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krj
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response 12 of 76:
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Apr 6 04:51 UTC 1997 |
I once thought "In A Gadda Da Vida" was the greatest rock album of all time.
I think this would have been for a couple of months when I was 14 years
old.
Fred Frith is kind of out there, close to the edge of what I can
interpret as music. I really like some of the stuff he has done
with Henry Kaiser. On the other hand, at his Ark appearance
with Skeleton Crew, there was one point where he took a home-made
guitar-like contraption; pounded nails into it; and then started
filing them.
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mcnally
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response 13 of 76:
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Apr 6 06:02 UTC 1997 |
The album in question is a lot more like the latter.
18 tracks' worth..
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bruin
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response 14 of 76:
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Apr 6 14:31 UTC 1997 |
BTW, did any of you catch the episode of "The Simpsons" where Bart was passing
out sheet music at church and it turned out to be "In A Gadda Da Vida" (or
as the preacher said, "In The Garden Of Eden" by I. Ron Butterfly)?
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kewy
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response 15 of 76:
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Apr 7 03:15 UTC 1997 |
vitalogy, by pearl jam, i hate that album with a passion, my parents got it
for me.. first cd i ever owned..
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senna
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response 16 of 76:
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Apr 7 04:51 UTC 1997 |
Actually, I think Vitalogy is pretty good. It has its bad points,
though... the nonmusic tracks come immediately to mind. The problem is
that half the tracks actually suck. The liner notes kinda drove me
nuts, too. If you want to hear good Pearl Jam, listen to Ten.
New nominations.. but not mine. My youngest sister listens to some of
the most hideous music known to man.
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kewy
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response 17 of 76:
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Apr 7 18:52 UTC 1997 |
yeah, i like ten, it's the album i don't own...ironicly. the rest of their
stuff is shit..
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senna
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response 18 of 76:
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Apr 14 01:10 UTC 1997 |
Ten was basically the first piece of modern music I ever listened to, and it's
still my favorite. I can't get tired of that album.
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orinoco
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response 19 of 76:
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Apr 19 20:05 UTC 1997 |
'Let the power fall', by Fripp. (not to be confused with Frith) Some of the
most repetetive and obnoxious music I've heard in a while...
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mcnally
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response 20 of 76:
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Apr 20 04:33 UTC 1997 |
Although I really like King Crimson and Fripp's work on many people's
albums and though the performance of Fripp & his League of Crafty
Guitarists I saw at the Power Center 7 or 8 years ago might have been
the best concert I have seen or will ever see, even I must admit that
Fripp's "Frippertronics" generally bores me to tears at best...
I think that describing it as "pretentious and self-indulgent" would
be kind..
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omni
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response 21 of 76:
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Apr 20 06:01 UTC 1997 |
I guess my answer to this would be a CD called "Pick This" which I got from
Tower for free, and to tell the honest truth, it was overpriced.
I mean, Generators that are crossing over, and overloading sound better than
this CD
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remmers
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response 22 of 76:
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Apr 21 15:23 UTC 1997 |
My worst recordings are so old that they're probably not
available anymore (fortunately). I'm not sure if I still have
'em, but if I do, my worst are probably a couple of albums by
a 60's rock group called The Free Design. I believe they
appeared semi-regularly on Arthur Godfrey's radio show.
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orinoco
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response 23 of 76:
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Apr 22 22:40 UTC 1997 |
mcnally--who are league of crafty guitarists? any relation to the california
guitar trio? I haven't been able to find *anything* by or about either of
them.
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scott
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response 24 of 76:
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Apr 23 00:17 UTC 1997 |
I've got a couple CDs sfrom both. "Guitar Craft" is a guitar
seminar/program/system that Robert Fripp started a few year back. League of
Crafty Guitarists was a p.rforming offshoot of that, and California Guitar
Trio were in Guitar Craft. I think that Tower has some LoCG stuff in the
Fripp bin.
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