What is the most dreadful CD (or other format album) you have ever bought?
Mine is “The Royal Society” by the band, “The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster.”
A critic’s note on a sticker on the cover says, “TEMBLD are re-inventing rock music.”
They have indeed reinvented it - as something that is almost completely unlike what I understand by “rock”. Rot, maybe.
My collection of “rock” extends to Sex Pistols, Slaughter and the Dogs, The Rolling Stones, Status Quo, AC/DC, Broken Bones, System of a Down, Motörhead, Electric Frankenstein, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kiss, Rush, Children of Bodom, The Kinks, Misfits, Gary Moore, Buddy Guy… which is a fairly wide spectrum, so I think I’m fairly open minded on what counts as “rock”. I have never in my life heard such dreadful repetitive, formulaic, meaningless auditory excrement as this CD. I have tried several times and have never physically managed to listen beyond track 8 of 13 - even on a long motörway journey, because it is painfully bad.
Which leads to two questions:
Anyone out there want to vent their spleen about a similarly ill-advised album purchase? What is the most dreadful one you were misled into buying?
Anyone out there want to put the case for the Defence of 80s Matchbox B Line Disaster? I’m all ears. (What’s left of them.)
Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother. Whoops.
Weezer’s Make Believe. I try to pretend it never happened.
Roger Waters’ recent two-song release. Didn’t get my $2.49’s worth.
I can’t decide which is worse without listening to them. And that’s a mystery I can live with!
When I was 12 I bought a Gatecrasher album… At the time it was good, but in retrospect, I’d say that’s my worst album purchase- But that’s because my musical taste has changed. I’m sure it’s still an alright album, if Gatecrasher is your poison of choice. But it doesn’t exactly “mesh” with my current music.
Having raised the subject myself, I now recall an album I bought by “Deborah Harry and the Jazz Passengers.”
Deborah Harry was once Debbie Harry = Blondie.
Jazz “Passengers” is a mildly amusing reference to the “Jazz Messengers” from many years ago.
The album was so pretentious, so unmusical, so crepe that I thought it was a hoax. I lent it to someone and hope never to get it back.
At the other end of the scale, I recently bought a “Lo-Fi” album by Joan Jett. The sound quality was so bad it sounded like it had been recorded with the bass in the bathroom, the guitar in the kitchen and the drums in the tool shed. I took it back and got a refund.
But 80s Matchbox takes the biscuit. Never have I heard such tosh masquerading as rock. So, is no one going to stand up for them?
I really like the idea of classical music themes and variations played in a heavy metal guitar style. It would really be neat to hear that done well. The Great Kat doesn’t pull it off. A big disappointment for me. I was expecting more from the album.
I bought the album some time in the early 90’s without the benefit of ever hearing anything that she had done. The purchase was a total shot in the dark based on the idea of classical music themes being played on a heavy metal guitar. Oops.
mezmorize by system… terrible cd… big let down
see you on the other side… but ill give them props… they lost their lead guiatrist… but now all the guiatr sounds like is gernic metal guitar…
I’m busy reading the Simon Cowell autobiog and he just mentioned that single.
Came out just after he released the wrestlers and shortly before Someone and Jerome’s version of Unchained Melody.
My eldest brother told me that for years, right through school, he avoided record shops as being a complete waste of money.
Generally speaking I also think the average CD shop now has more junk than Steptoe’s yard.
However, having watched TOTP one evening my brother was quite taken by a certain french lady singer: one Francois Hardy ( my brother is MUCH, MUCH older than I am) and in a frenzy of teenage hormones decided to buy her album. The shop owner said "Do you want the “In Vogue”. My brother, thinking that the shop owner was using “in vogue” as a posh way of saying “her latest LP”, rather than quoting an F.H. album title, said he would have it, and strolled home proudly with the lady in a carrier bag. On getting it home he was not only severly disappointed at the quality, but it didn’t even have the song he wanted on it.
He was too embarrassed to take it back, and has never bought another LP, CD, DVD or tape since then.
Themes From The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy preformed by The Big Movie Orchestra. It’s boring renditions with badly synthesised horns of all the “themes” you didn’t remember from the trilogy. I bought it 'cos it was like 20 bucks cheaper than the real soundtrack. Big mistake. There’s a reason it was cheap.
well i didn’t get any of these CDs but id say anything my sister buys, cuase when she gets a cd she plays it over and over over and over over and over, and when she finally stops she starts singing it off key and different tempos. if i like the cd, when my sister decides she likes it I will end up hating it
