Worst Album In your Collection That You Paid For, IYHO.

[TimF]

I bought it on clearance at the Hastings store in Twin Falls Idaho--passing through on my way to Ontario, Oregon. I thought the cd set might be charming. It was a bit charming. Not badly done all in all but clearly not my thing. It is a five disc set called Children's Songbook. Quite a lot of songs. Five discs! It is just that it is Mormon and it is all things Mormon. I'm not Mormon and I don't mean any offense. Songs such as: I can be a modern day pioneer, Our home's like a temple, The Prophet Lehi, ... I won't go on. I see that it is available on Amazon if you want the set. That same time I also bought at that store a great new SACD set of the symphonies of Karl Amadeus Hartmann extremely well performed and recorded for a little over $3. Ya win some, ya lose some. I like some Carnatic vocal/song. You may not. In that vein, there is Ranjani and Gayathri the singing Carnatic sisters. Maybe some remember the Berry Sisters, Minni and Clara Bagelman.

 

[SMc]

Yes, I paid for this, soon as it came out. I knew what I was in for. I found it inspiring. If he could do this kind of stuff, I could do this kind of stuff.

The Tower Records clerk made sure I knew what I was getting when I bought the lp. I also have the quad version on dvd. I’m not sure I understand the description in the booklet, but I think the additional channels are the tracks in reverse.

 

[digicidal]

Yes, I paid for this, soon as it came out. I knew what I was in for. I found it inspiring. If he could do this kind of stuff, I could do this kind of stuff.

The Tower Records clerk made sure I knew what I was getting when I bought the lp. I also have the quad version on dvd. I’m not sure I understand the description in the booklet, but I think the additional channels are the tracks in reverse.

Not sure how I missed out on that when I was in my noise phase. Probably would have moved right on by considering who it was though. It would have fit right in with my long sessions of listening to Nurse With Wound, Einstürzende Neubauten, Psychic TV and Naked City (John Zorn). In the late 80's through the early 90's the university radio station had a noise show called "Difficult Listening" once a week from 11pm to 3am. Great stuff.

 

[bluefuzz]

Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill.

Actually, I rather like that one. But Dagmar Krause's Brecht/Weill interpretations are definitive. And Gisela May of course ...

 

[bluefuzz]

This is definitely the worst in my collection. But you get 40+ minutes of music per side, so the portions are large.

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Wow! Great cover. I feel the urge to invade Poland just looking at it ... ;-)

 

[anmpr1]

Actually, I rather like that one. But Dagmar Krause's Brecht/Weill interpretations are definitive...

That's a name that brings back memories. Not always pleasant, but memories. Dagmar singing about hats! LOL

 

[SMc]

Not sure how I missed out on that when I was in my noise phase. Probably would have moved right on by considering who it was though. It would have fit right in with my long sessions of listening to Nurse With Wound, Einstürzende Neubauten, Psychic TV and Naked City (John Zorn). In the late 80's through the early 90's the university radio station had a noise show called "Difficult Listening" once a week from 11pm to 3am. Great stuff.

For a "mature" take on Metal Machine Music, try the Zeitkratzer acoustic chamber instrument version!

 

[bluefuzz]

That's a name that brings back memories. Not always pleasant, but memories. Dagmar singing about hats! LOL

One of my favourite female vocalists. An acquired taste I admit.

The Cow with Dagmar. What can be better than this? ;-)

 

[Kegemusha]

It is a good one though.

Lol I think is good, all Beck's albums sound good IMHO

 

[anmpr1]

One of my favourite female vocalists. The Cow with Dagmar. What can be better than this? ;-)

Dag and her gang seemed to be on the 'red' side. But maybe it was just my impression. Sort of an edgy Grace Slick. What a hoot she was. Grace singing about revolution, not realizing that with her bank account she'd be one of the first to be lined up!

I had Slapps, the Cows, and even some Art Bears. To keep time with the radical scene I didn't even buy them. I copied a friend's records using 7 inch Maxell, via a Pioneer 701 deck. From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs... and all that. LOL

 

[bluefuzz]

Dag and her gang seemed to be on the 'red' side.

Well that's understatement of the century. Nothing wrong with that though ... ;-)

Sort of an edgy Grace Slick

Now that's a comparison I wouldn't have hit upon in a million years, but OK ...

 

[watchnerd]

All of my Yoko Ono albums.

I paid 10 cents each for them.

 

[bluefuzz]

All of my Yoko Ono albums.

Still better than anything Lennon did post Beatles.

 

[watchnerd]

Still better than anything Lennon did post Beatles.

I don't own any of those.

Nor the Beatles.

 

[Thomas savage]

All of my Yoko Ono albums.

I paid 10 cents each for them.

You took pity on the vegans that lacked the strength to carry then home from the car boot.

I don't own any of those.

Nor the Beatles.

Just me and you with no Beatles, though I love type o negative..


I'm terms of my shite anything I bought from dream theater.

 

[dasdoing]

back in the days when I bought albums I would stay in the listening booth of WOM in Berlin for hours, so I never bought something I didn't knew how good it was

 

[watchnerd]

I forgot I had a Klaus Nomi album:

 

[Justin Ayers]

Posting thrift store stuff is cheaty.

What's far sadder is paying full price for something awful. I have plenty of classical discs (mostly from Naxos but not all) that fit the bill. Here are just a few from the top of my head:

high-priced:

Tippett
Satie played by Ciccolini. Possibly the most overrated pianist ever.
Korngold (symphony in F#)
The Romantic Piano Concerto (Hyperion, bought two of them at once — obscure for good reason)
some piano competition winner playing the original version of Rachmaninov's second sonata, badly
Dvořák's 7th symphony with the Cleveland Symphony.
Simon Trpčeski (okay playing but not worth buying)

borderline bad:

Horowitz, the Historic Return (the dubs to fix the mistakes are a good thing when dealing with tricyclic Horowitz and not present here)
Tchaikovsky Koch-Swann box (3rd concerto's first movement is only track of merit. Liner notes are hilarious, though.)
Anything involving Alfred Brendel. I don't see his appeal. It's not unlistenable but doesn't work any magic either.

Naxos:

Messianen's Quartet for the End of Time. Drivel piece, despite the neat backstory.
Silver (concerto, etc.)
Clara Schumann ("piano music")
Alkan
Beach (concerto, etc.)
Rachmaninov's Variations on a Theme of Corelli
Dukas (sonata, etc.). The sonata is a piece that is hard to take but the performance here makes that worse.
Macdowell piano concertos
Stenhammer
Thalberg piano concerto
Rachmaninov symphony No. 3

I had to buy a lot blindly at Borders and elsewhere, long before Youtube made it possible to audition. I didn't have any friends interested in classical.

As for "popular" music, the worst thrift store/massive discount type buy was a Fleetwood Mac cassette tape from the band's pre-pop days. I got it for my mother and she didn't find it listenable at all, either. Worst thing I bought for myself was Enigma's The Cross of Changes. It is not in my collection and hasn't been for a long time.

 

[watchnerd]

Posting thrift store stuff is cheaty.

What's far sadder is paying full price for something awful. I have plenty of classical discs (mostly from Naxos but not all) that fit the bill. Here are just a few from the top of my head:

high-priced:

Tippett
Satie played by Ciccolini. Possibly the most overrated pianist ever.

At first skim, I thought you were referring to the aging Hungarian-Italian porn star turned politician, Cicciolina.

I can imagine her piano skills, too, are highly overrated.