Just to fill in time, what’s the worst album you had in your collection?
Not surprisingly I had some stinkers. But probably the worst of the worst was Wilson Phillips. I only bought their album because one of the girls was hot.
Not far behind were the follow up albums of Bush, Counting Crows and (cringe) Hootie and The Blowfish. All absolute stinkers!
Probably Love An Adventure by Pseudo Echo (long since purged…)
However… most bands I’ve liked at some point in time have had a rolled-gold stinker in their reportoire, and which I have in my collection, e.g…
The Doctor - Cheap Trick (actually most of their 1984 - 1990 output would qualify)
All That You Can’t Leave Behind - U2 (It’s so bland and faceless that I just can’t reconcile it as the same act and producer behind their early albums. They may have released worse albums since - I wouldn’t know, this was the end of the affair for me…)
Pacific Daydream - Weezer (I perservered through some very spotty stuff, but this finally killed them off for me)
U-Vox - Ultravox (where they decided to become Simple Minds style arena-rock)
Cut The Crap - The Clash (drum machines, no Mick Jones - say no more)
Dave Matthews Band - Everyday (DMB does pop, with predictably dire consequences)
Icehouse- Man Of Colours (them trying to crack the US market… just uggghhh…)
Eskimo Joe - Wastelands (EJ goes electronic on a crowd-funded album - what must the look on those people’s faces have been?)
Queen - Hot Space (Freddie does disco, four years after the fact… just nope)
etc.
etc.
etc.
I thought that was a cracking album. Although I was about 13 at the time so pretty easily impressed.
That’s a fair list. I’ve no doubt got others. I didn’t include albums that we’re discounted because let’s face it, they’re discounted for a reason. If I had to pick one of those Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers - Jahmekya would be pretty high. I probably only listened to that about 3 times. And back in those days when new albums were few and far between that was rare, so it must have been super crap.
Oh, I forgot one…
The Best Of UB40.
Bought when I was 21 off the back of a particularly memorable holiday, and never listened to since.
Outside of one song (One In Ten) it’s truly noxious…largely asinine reggae cover versions. Just what the world needed…
Have you heard Electric Blue lately? 
Nope. And I don’t want to ruin my memory of it.
I bought U-Vox because I liked (and still do for some reason) All Fall Down.
I think you’re being generous by saying Man of Colours was Icehouse’s crack at the US, given what their previous album was called.
I could go on about Australian artist’s attempts at that, but the one that really sticks out to me now is For The Working Class Man.
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listening to it now…it’s all just US soft country rock.
You fooled us, Jimmy!
Australian Crawl’s is the most sad and tragic.
Nope
No.
What, “Measure for Measure”?
Clearly a sop to the US imperial system.
Lol.
Okay, you got me.
Point stands, though.
Hmmm…worst albums that made their way into my collection over the years
Martha and the Muffins - Metro Music (bought on the strength of Echo Beach…that was the only anywhere near decent track)
Ellen Foley - Spirit of St Louis (she was the backing singer on Bat out of Hell…her first album was very good…this was a steaming pile of crap)
Orchestral Manoeuvers In The Dark - Crush (to be fair to myself, I won this at a quiz night…farken woeful)
Heart - Brigade (had always liked them…this was not good)
John Schumann - True Believers (should have been called Truly Crap)
Bought for serious or for a joke?
What are the rules here, because I bought a Jim Nabors record and also…
I’m not going to say the worst, but the most disappointed in an album was FGTH’s Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
Relax, Two Tribes and The Power of Love had already been released as singles, I already had the 12” of the title track, and it was priced as a double album (which mattered to me back then).
I didn’t like any of the other stuff and felt really ripped off, reasonably or not.
Covers of War and Born to Run made me feel like they didn’t actually Have any other songs, but they released a double album anyway.
Oh, I also bought the Sex Pistols ‘Some Product’.
Fair to say that was a disappointment.
Check out Deconstructed.
It’s their remix album. Horrible remixes of that horrible second album.
Incidentally, how cool is my new av.
Surely not?
No 1 for 11 weeks
5 top 30 singles
Aria albums of the year
Ice houses top selling album.
I know where your coming from, artistically it’s no where near the standard of their earlier stuff.
But they got paid.
