RE: Worst Record ever Made (by someone you normally admire)
Actually in a trainspotting type of situation it should be the worst record ever made by someone you admire.
Sonic Youth- "NYC Ghosts and Flowers." The members of SY have always loved concrete, 20th cen classical, and free jazz. On "Nyc Ghosts and Flowers", they decided to DO it. On "Goodbye 20th Century", they were doing covers (and those were excellent). Well, they simply suck at it. Lee Ranaldo's poetry has always sucked, but this album gave him a chance to orally shit it overtop of horribly uninteresting music. The songs go NOWHERE, Jim O'rouroke adds little more than a few pointless electronic bloops to the record, and the songs that are more like traditional SY ("nevermind, what was it anyway?") aren't even fit for a B-sides collection.
Actually in a trainspotting type of situation it should be the worst record ever made by someone you admire.
Normally, I try to get rid of this 'lesser' stuff, so sometimes I don't even remember the full title of a lame record by 'someone I normally admire'. I get so used to selling cd's by Bill Frisell, Knitting Factory Label, John McLaughlin or Jan Garbarek, That I have problems figuring out what would be their 'worst' outing. I hate the stuff mentioned hereunder, but not in the way most radio stuff does on an average day;-) I will not sell these, but I don't like'em either. I just don't get this music, or my all-time heroes were having off-days themselves: John Zorn: My First Recordings/ wank, wank, can't believe I even bought this Ornette Coleman: Virgin Beauty/ don't know what to say, lame fusion? Chris Potter: Gratitude/ just so conservatory, derivative and over-clever Dave Douglas: Magic Triangle/ just lame jazz Ginger Baker: all of his African Airforce material/ untight ramblings going on and on and on (oops, already sold this stuff!) Lol Coxhill & Pat Thomas: Halim/ yuk jazzdance with a lame beat, and entirely non-swinging. No idea what they intended to do here. Mahavishnu Orchestra: this eighties or early nineties album with the word RADIO in it/ lame fusion with a flat synth drum beat (again: already sold it!) Fred Frith: Cheap at half the price/ trying to be pop, the results sound like a sad wannabe's demo, with a tiny twist or, coming closer to 'all time worst records ever': The Damned: the album called 'Anything' Ian Anderson: this eighties synthi solo album, preceeding the countless mediocre Jethro Tull Albums. Regards, Remco Takken
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