response 51 of 76:

Oct 15 14:34 UTC 1998

When I used to work at one store, we sold new-age music....and I managed to
inherit (much to my extreme displeasure) "Pan Flutes By The Ocean".  And of
course it was my "Celtic Guitar" cd that had to missing and not the Pan
Flute one!  (sigh)

response 53 of 76:

Oct 15 18:35 UTC 1998

My uncle gave me Hanson's Christmas album for my birthday (in
January).  Ugh...  He used to buy me Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the
Doors, Steve Miller Band, etc, but something weird happened to him
last year.  Mom said he's become a Born-Again...never thought it
meant I couldn't scam cool psychedelic posters and music from him
anymore.  ;-)

response 55 of 76:

Oct 16 02:42 UTC 1998

I think it's the combanation of pan flutes and oceans, Jon...

response 57 of 76:

Oct 19 17:32 UTC 1998

Some friends of mine recently moved to Portland, and left me with one of their
prized possesions. An LP version of _We Are The World_.  <shudder>   Not only
was everyone's voice a bit off during the session, and not only was it
horrible music (if you ignore the lyrics), but -everyone's- hair was (with
the possible exception of Bob Dylan) quite askew. <double shudder>

response 59 of 76:

Oct 20 06:05 UTC 1998

i would have to say that the worst thing i own is a tape of a death metal 
band called 'dark ages'. it's one of those self produced things, a little
better looking than a demo tape, but not really. it is really very awful, I
don't know where i got it or why i havn't used the tape for something
worthwhile. 

response 61 of 76:

Feb 25 18:20 UTC 1999

The worst thing I own is "Hooked on Classics." Parts of classical music turned
into disco music. Ick.

A close second would be the BMG Music Club's free Alternative CD. It featured
bands I've never heard of and hope I never do again.

response 63 of 76:

Mar 6 05:29 UTC 1999

my mom has that cd.. I think it's just... bizarre.

response 65 of 76:

Mar 10 02:17 UTC 1999

weird.

response 67 of 76:

Mar 10 06:55 UTC 1999

We fall over laughing at the beginning of Ray Manzarek's recording
of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana."  I don't know that this qualifies 
as truly bad, though; it was a noble attempt.  (Manzarek was the 
keyboard player for The Doors, for those of you who might not 
recognize his name.)
 
I bought a pre-release copy of an album by a band called 
SHALLOW, NORTH DAKOTA.  The album title is "This Apparatus Must 
Be Earthed."  The copy made it sound like the album might be 
some sort of interesting punk/roots cross, but it really does seem 
to be 40 minutes of undifferentiated guitar noises.

response 69 of 76:

Mar 11 02:13 UTC 1999

(...along with, for some reason, a copy of the local band Flashpapr's latest
album.  I'm surprised someone from Flashpapr hasn't complained)

response 71 of 76:

Mar 12 00:39 UTC 1999

I don't think I own it anymore, but some time in the
late 1960s an album by a person named Van Dyke Parks
was released.  I read a review of it in some magazine
that made it sound like the greatest thing since The
Beatles -- I mean, they just *raved* about it -- so I
went out and bought it.  Forgettable tunes, and lyrics
consisting of verbal noodling ("free-association").
I listened to it an awful lot, thinking I must be
missing something, but whatever it was I never found
it.  There was one instrumental version of "Black is
the Color of My True Love's Hair" that had a music-
box-like opening that I developed a mild liking for,
but that was about it.  Anyone else ever heard of this
album?

response 73 of 76:

Mar 12 06:30 UTC 1999

Well, you can't win 'em all.  There's the professional music scene, and 
then there's the music that is a commercial success, and then there are 
the musicians that make just as many shameless plugs for other artists 
as paid promoters and marketers do.  Not all of them pick winners.