Key

I found a vinyl copy at a record store in California and brought it back to the record store a week or so later. I couldn't stomach the first side, I didn't even attempt to flip the record and listen to the other side. Luckily, vinyl doesn't really cost that much, and this one was pretty beat up, so I only lost like...3 bucks or so.

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Did you get the ad for the T-Shirt, Satin Jacket, and Jogging shorts with it?

I got it for a Dollar, and although the album was pretty bad, I'm still keeping it for the whole package. It's an ultimate cut out album, and best appreciated when one has a copy with the Saw Cut, shrink wrap with "Special" sticker, and Love Beach Jogging Shorts offer. I still wonder how many Love Beach Satin Jackets wound up at thrift stores after paying almost $70 for the damn thing. The album in great condition is just an added bonus - you don't have to play it more than once.

I hate to go on laughing about an album by a band that I actually like (the Debut, Brain Salad Surgery, and Tarkus were pretty good), but at least they survived that debacle. The second side actually had it's moments, but I can understand not even wanting to hear it after surviving songs like the title track and "Taste of My Love." The final track at the end of Side One hinted at Side Two's better moments, though.

I'm still deciding on my pick in this topic.

duga

Definitely Fieldy's Dreams - Rock n' Roll Gangster. In middle school, when I got into a band, I had to have EVERYTHING they did - side projects and all. Korn's bassist put this out and even though I didn't like gangsta rap at the time, I gave it a chance. Not surprisingly, it blows. 2 plays and it became one of the worst albums in my collection. I still laugh a little when I see it. Apparently he has another album he hasn't released yet called Fieldy's Nightmares... Only it's a bass instrumental jazz/funk fusion.

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Key

Nah, I found it at a record store so it was just for the record. I would have held onto it if I ended up liking it at some point, but I have such limited space right now that it would have just picked up dust until I was in the mood to listen to it, which wasn't often enough to consider keeping it. Maybe i'll listen to it again in the future, because I love/have a couple other ELP albums on vinyl, which are fantastic.

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I think I found the one that I actually kept in my collection...

Sha Na Na - Sha Na Now.

I never had an album by a group that had a cheesy but still memorable show, and now I actually have two, and both are strong disappointments that killed off my slight like of the show (Hey, it had The Ramones on one episode! You don't let go of childhood memories like that.). Their debut had a first side that had their live show, all energetic and fun, but a second that seriously dragged them into MOR. Imagine now that second side dragged on to a whole album. That's the anti-world of Sha Na Now.

Imagine traveling back to the Mid 70's (as this was 1975), meeting a car collector that once was cool, but then hit his Late 30's and went all Mellow on us while still keeping his cars and collector's group jacket while trying to hide the increasing beer gut. Or how about going to a 50's theme Hamburger restaurant and instead of the classics playing on the music system the customer gets a tame Bar Band instead. That's the feeling I got listening to it.

The epic ballad "Try a Little Harder" may be better than Barry Manilow (only slightly...still is crap), but it's only just due to the fact that the instrumentation is a little sharper.

A cheesy song about hosting a "Basement Party"? No thanks.

LAME covers of classics like "Runaway," "Party Lights," and "(Just Like) Romero and Juliet" that really want the listener to throw the record right out the window. A cover of "Braking Up is Hard to Do" that's soft enough that it makes Neal Sedaka's version sound Punk (There have been worse, but...).

Crap outsider or Producer-written originals like "Circles of Love" which employ light Disco beats.

A Disco-Lite Instrumental co-written by the Producer (Tony Camillo) called "Sha-Bumpin" that's actually the best moment on there as it has no vocals and is not a crap cover. It STILL is crap, anyways.

It's understandable. It tried to bring what's essentially a live attraction up to date with the times, that being the very crap Mid-70's. Still, with a cover of them still wearing that camp 50's style stage image, you would expect them to at least Rock out a little, but damn did they get mellow here.

The spirit that dissed the Hippies at the end of Side One of their debut was no longer there. At least their Best Of featured little from this album.

This actually charted in The US, #162. It was possibly thanks to those said Middle Age Car Collectors then.

I wonder if Jocko's album released around the time was the Rock and Roll that went missing from Sha Na Now.

Vertigo

Two that immediately leap to mind are;

Captain Soul - Beat Your Crazy Head Against The Sky. Without a shadow of a doubt, the worst album I've ever heard.

Martin Simpson - The Bramble Briar. Awful, cheesy, cringeworthy folk that had me envisioning a guy with one finger stuck firmly in his ear, crooning about 'a fair maiden he met whilst a-wandering'.

SGR

@Mr Dave: Aw, I loved Cornell's solo debut!

The first album that came to my mind was Muse's "Absolution". Just rubbish.

blackdragon123

i often ask myself "What's Muse's appeal?" It all sounds like an attempt to make a musical of George Orwell's 1984 but it's not backed up by any actual activism.

Although i did enjoy Absolution

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I have a box under my bed of about a hundred albums I wish I'd never bought. Maybe one day I'll listen to all of them and write scathing reviews of myself at age 16.

Janszoon

Hmmm... what kinds of albums were these?

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