In YOUR opinion - the worst album that you own.

From memory, some of the worst albums in my collection include:
Carlos Santana- Havana Moon
Black Sabbath- Seventh Star

I actually rather like it's cheesiness, and some of the tracks are genuinely quite good.  It's fun and enjoyable for me, but sill one well-worth mentioning, I think.  I actually got it because of its corniness.  It's not an album I would not like to have in my collection, and not one I would not listen to again, but it may be the worst I've hung onto.  I like all of the albums in my collection to some extent.  I have had some I really disliked, but no longer have them.  When I was getting back into Prog, I made a few hasty purchases based on recommendations that didn't suite me, but then they weren't really bad albums no matter how much I disliked them (I do know the difference).  Then there were some Prog ones that are really bad that I've heard, but I tend to put those out of my mind.  Most of the worst I've heard I've only heard samples from (very amateurish music).

It's an album I've been meaning to include here under Various Artists: Concept albums (jazz/ fusion/ electronica).  Called a soundtrack to the novel Battlefield Earth, It's incredibly cheesy.  The electronics which was labelled ground-breaking (use of a computer attached to a keyboard -- The Fairlight Computer Musical Instrument), and Hubbard dubbed it "the music of the future", were already some years old at the time (not a new sampler and had been used before)., and it sounds like poor quality midi files (or what one might have heard in old video games).  It's one of those so bad it's good albums (although some of the music, especially that not composed by L. Ron Hubbard is reasonably good.  Notable musician Scientologists of the time such as Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke perform on it. And it might interest those into the artists who took part, as well as old L. Ron groupies, and those who have some interest in Scientology.

http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/weirdest-album-covers/825-1.jpg

It's one I would recommend, but more for humour and interest value, but not as a good album.  L. Ron Hubbard may have been an OT (Operative Thetan) master of time and space, but not of music.  He has a whole bunch of albums which he collaborated with others on.   Perhaps we could blame Xenu for this one.

Quoted from http://www.ronthemusicmaker.org/music/be.htm

"To achieve what has, in all truth, only recently been approximated, Ron employed a then wholly unexplored device, the Computer Musical Instrument (CMI). Manufactured by Fairlight (which itself had not yet recognized the instrument’s full potential), the CMI represented not a new form of synthesizer to replicate sounds, but a means of actually turning natural sounds into thirteen note octaves, so that the natural sounds are the notes of the music. The howling wolves are singing the blues, the blast of guns are playing the rhythms and the alien voices are the horn solos. In other words, all manner of previously nonmusical sounds are suddenly “singing” the song and pounding out the rhythm."

It may seem heard to believe that anything "Battelfield Earth" related could not be brilliant (of course, not being serious, Travolta and Forest Whitaker gave the performances of a lifetime in the much later movie production).

As far as I recall Gary Barlow's second solo album was close to unlistenable.

Jean Michele Jarre's - Teo & Tea == Crap, can't stand it at all.

( Eddie Vedder's voice is what??? )

btw Ten is a very nice 90s record

The T wrote: Outside prog, I have several that I would classify as the worst....   Pearl Jam's Ten bad? really? For me it's one of the BEST albums of the 90's. Tastes are tastes... The same with my favorite album ever, DT's SFAM...   Now for my worst-ever prog list:   SIGUR ROS - ( )     That's pretty much the worst of the worst. Others like KAyo Dot's DAWCT have at least some redeeming values....

What??? But Untitled #8 and Untitled #4 are so amazing.

And yes, I love "Ten" as well.

Edited by pianoman - September 20 2009 at 19:54

The Universal Migrator Part II without a doubt I would say.

A Backstreet Boys or Britney Spears cd. Take your pick.

Protip: I don't get rid of albums. I've had those for 10 years.

I've gotten rid of most of the ones I don't like, but there have been a few that rank really low.

The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute. I think it has more to do with how neat it seems and how cool it sounds for about two minutes that makes it rank so low. The track listing, the approach... all sound great. The music, er, barely listenable, and like some avant-garde music!

Opeth - Still Life. Lots of people love this album, and I love Opeth's later catalog a lot. I'm only hanging onto this one because I'm assuming I'm missing something and that I'll end up loving it eventually. But at this point in time, I don't enjoy listening to it at all.

Meshuggah. I had three of their CDs for a while. Absolutely unlistenable. To me, anyways. I never enjoyed any of their music, though it seemed like I would when I read about them. I'm not into deathy sorts of excursions enough, clearly.

Anything else I'm forgetting. Plenty of stuff I sold back pretty quickly.

I aim to please.

I goddamn love Pearl Jam's Ten, dayum.

Hmm, some of my worst were Pain of Salvation and Ayreon.
I gave them both a good chance, but in the end got rid of all their albums.
I don't remember which album it was, but an Anthrax album  I had, one of the worst thrash metal albums I'd ever heard. Could not believe they were considered up there with the classic Metallica and Megadeth, they just seemed totally lame in comparison.