Bad music you love

[rank]

In fact, it’s quite political... It is best not to dwell too much on the HUGE differences between “dictatorship” and “democracy”...
"Silver Convention" (despite the name) seems more memorable to me than all of world rap, most of Bowie's songs after 1980, Madonna, Lady Gaga or T Swift (the last three because they have female voices too).
For some, jazz remains boring but this don't stop its aficionados from listening to it.
For example.

 

[Multicore]

I was told that my version of a JS Bach fugue from the Well-Temeper Clavier was as good as Les Dawson. For a while I felt bad about that because I hadn't meant it to be humorous. But I got over quickly it and took it as a compliment. Dawson can play!

 

[Multicore]

Dudley Moore was quite the musician. The music for Bedazzled is tour de force. As is this performance of Beethoven.

 

[bluefuzz]

Dudley Moore was quite the musician.

My mum went to school with Dudley Moore. She said he was always adding jazz solos between the hymn verses on the church organ at choir practice or pratting about on the school piano in much the same way as the above clip.

I remember illicit copies of Derek and Clive Live were in high demand at my school in the late 70s. They probably influenced as many budding wee punk rockers in how to be obnoxious as anything the Sex Pistols got up to ...

 

[Chr1]

Ah yes, Bo Dudley et al.

Loved Derek and Clive. My favourite being "Come Again" (1977).

Fond memories...Definitely waaay too "inappropriate" for release today.

Presenting... "The dry fart for Barry McDermott and all the cancer patients in the Glamorgan testicle ward."

Splendid.

 

[Mr Swing King]

A lot of Danish music comes to mind, but the first thing that popped into my head was ‘Smølfehits’.
These were classic 90s dance songs converted to Smurf…and well I can still get a good chuggle out of them. I remember listening to this at after-parties with my buddies going absolutely crazy.
Horrendous music…but somehow it works.

 

[shuppatsu]

A stone cold terrible classic.

This song sounds so demented to my ears, but I keep listening anyways.

 

[legendarymemberman]

Antithesis of audiophile music but I keep listening.

 

[Soandso]

These bad boys get going; on uTube if care to look for it (~5.5 minutes long "Animal Crackers" movie clip):

 

[Chris A]

Bad music that we might listen to can include more types of poor choices than the examples presented above. In particular, bad composition is something that few ever talk about...but we can certainly hear it. An example album having consistently poor compositional performance--that you can hear--but written in an otherwise acceptable genre:

A scoring sheet for enumerating composition errors in 4-part harmony from The College Board (AP Music Theory Scoring Guidelines) for those that haven't had a course in music theory.

And even an application to help nascent composers identify and fix music composition errors:

Chris

 

[DanielT]

Bad? Well more kitsch or camp. Type of music that was and is popular in the wider layers of the "down-to-earth people" of the people in Sweden.

I like to listen to the kind of dance band music sometimes:

You Americans have borrowed that melody from Sweden for a song you know from the 1950s.

 

[Barrelhouse Solly]

I got into jug band music in the early '60s. The term "punk folk" hadn't been invented yet but it was a direction I liked to take in jug band music. In the first one I was in we did "Teddy Bears' Picnic" with kazoos and me doing a loud "classical" baritone that sounded ominous. We also did "The Ballad of the Green Berets," Paul Revere and the Raiders' "Kicks," and some pre-WWII pop tunes. Later I teamed up with a friend of mine as a 2 person jug band. We did sappy pop tunes, "adult" versions of songs like "Okie from Muskogee," "Teen Angel," and a host of others. We also did serious versions of music we liked. Making bad music worse is really fun. Oh, Dudley Moore, I remember his classical sketch from Beyond the Fringe which included an art song parody called "La Nuit Fait l'Ennui." He could play.

 

[Multicore]

Bad music that we might listen to can include more types of poor choices than the examples presented above. In particular, bad composition is something that few ever talk about...but we can certainly hear it. An example album having consistently poor compositional performance--that you can hear--but written in an otherwise acceptable genre:

A scoring sheet for enumerating composition errors in 4-part harmony from The College Board (AP Music Theory Scoring Guidelines) for those that haven't had a course in music theory.

And even an application to help nascent composers identify and fix music composition errors:

Chris

Yeah, that's pretty rough. Should we infer that, since you posted it in this thread, you love it?

 

[Chris A]

Should we infer that, since you posted it in this thread, you love it?

Some of the musical ideas there are interesting, but just as it's probably difficult to listen to (very) old Junior High band recordings (age 13-14) with the full range of beginner playing issues implied in that "active listening activity", I don't find myself doing that very often...perhaps once every 30 to 40 years...something like that.

But I do own the 2-CD distribution package that I acquired from Amazon almost 15 years ago--on the recommendation of a fellow hi-fi enthusiast. He already knows what I think about it--but we're apparently still friends. That friendship is worth something, I think, although it's been a long time since we've talked. I still think about the experience of listening to it the first time while visiting. Does that count?

Chris

 

[Multicore]

Does that count?

I suppose it does. Bad music - check. They you care about - yup.

 

[bluefuzz]

I always had a soft spot for the Portsmouth Sinfonia:

 

[Robin L]

Incomparable:

This one was on repeat at Wherehouse Records in 1995/6, records we had to play called "WISN" (Wherehouse in Store Network):

 

[Robin L]

I don't know if this is awful or great, you tell me:

 

[A Surfer]

Bad music that we might listen to can include more types of poor choices than the examples presented above. In particular, bad composition is something that few ever talk about...but we can certainly hear it. An example album having consistently poor compositional performance--that you can hear--but written in an otherwise acceptable genre:

A scoring sheet for enumerating composition errors in 4-part harmony from The College Board (AP Music Theory Scoring Guidelines) for those that haven't had a course in music theory.

And even an application to help nascent composers identify and fix music composition errors:

Chris

I totally bought that album hoping for anything like Tubular Bells. What a disappointment. I'm not sure if I kept the disc or donated it. Pretty sure I eliminated it. What a miss.

 

[Keith_W]

A few days ago I was chatting to a friend about bad music our parents liked. That reminded me of Julio Iglesias:

Ugh, even as a kid I hated it. It's so bad.