- Duran Duran – Thank You
- Spice Girls – All Their Solo Albums!
- Various – Urban Renewal: The Songs Of Phil Collins
- Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music
- Billy Idol – Cyberpunk
- Naomi Campbell – Babywoman
- Kevin Rowland – My Beauty
- Mick Jagger – Primitive Cool
- Westlife – Allow Us To Be Frank
- Tim Machine – Tin Machine Ii
- Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
- Tom Jones – Mr Jones
- Bruce Willis – The Return Of Bruno
- Terence Trent Diabolical – Neither Fish Nor Flesh
- Various – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band – OST
- Spice Girls – Forever
- Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead – Dylan And The Dead
- Crazy Frog – Crazy Hits
- Goldie – Saturnz Return
- Mariah Cary – Glitter OST
- The Clash – Cut The Crap
- Robson & Jerome – Robson & Jerome
- Alanis Morissette – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
- Lauryn Hill – MTV Unpugged 2.0
- The Cranberries – To The Faithful Departed
- Vanilla Ice – Hard To Swallow
- Destiny’s Child – Destiny Fulfilled
- The Rolling Stones – Dirty Work
- Various – Christmas In The Stars: Star Wars Christmas Album
- Michael Jackson – Invincible
- Stevie Wonder – Woman In Red
- Ace Of Bass – The Sign
- Billy Ray Cyrus – Some Gave All
- Fishspooner - #1
- Puff Daddy – Forever
- Kula Shaker – Peanuts, Pigs & Astronauts
- Shania Twain – Come On Over
- Chris Rea – The Road To Hell Pt2
- Big Country – Undercover
- The Others – The Others
- Paul Simon – Songs From The Capeman OST
- Babylon Zoo – The Boy With The X-Ray Eyes
- The Travelling Wilburys – Vol 3
- Kiss – Music From The Elder
- William Shatner – The Transformed Man
- Oasis – Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants
- Ozzy Osbourne – Under Cover
- Milli Vanilli – All Or Nothing
- Neil Young And The Shocking Pinks – Everybody’s Rocking
- Beck – Midnight Vultures
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50 WORST album EVER!!!! (according to Q Magazine)
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The Duran Duran effort was a total shocker especially White Lines, they performed it live on The Word too as I recall. 
Glad to say I don't own any of the worst 50 although I probably don't have any of the top 50 either...
NObabe wrote: 51. New Order - Republic
I have:
- Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
- The Clash – Cut The Crap
- The Rolling Stones – Dirty Work
- Ozzy Osbourne – Under Cover
Super Ally wrote: The Duran Duran effort was a total shocker especially White Lines, they performed it live on The Word too as I recall.
WHAT!?!??!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!
THEY COVERED A HIP HOP CLASSIC????????????????????????????
Christopher Owens wrote:
Super Ally wrote: The Duran Duran effort was a total shocker especially White Lines, they performed it live on The Word too as I recall.
WHAT!?!??!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!
THEY COVERED A HIP HOP CLASSIC????????????????????????????
Agree but their version was appalling!
I think I put White Lines or The Message in my 'Back To Mine' post
J.A.K wrote: just as i suspected.
JK AINT got any of these howlers.
Liar.
What about your Milli Vanilli collection?
Let me be frank is the only thing westlife ever done that doesn't turn my stomach...I can ignore the little fudgepackers and listen to the classic bigband horn sound.
William Shatner – The Transformed Man... is LOL funny as hell! maybe it should earn some respect in retrospect, at least Bill reached for the stars and tried to go where no man had gone before... the degree of failure is subjective if had to deny
Beck - Midnight Vultures... Beck had earned lots of cred but I'm glad that I'm not the only one who found this album pretty unlistenable... I tried to like it and failed, i dunno if it deserves top 50 status thou
Super Ally wrote:
Agree but their version was appalling!
Super Ally wrote: I think I put White Lines or The Message in my 'Back To Mine' post
J.A.K wrote: just as i suspected.
JK AINT got any of these howlers.
I have Dylan and the Dead and the spice girls hahahha
Dylan and the Dead isn't a bad album, it just shows the bias of this magazine towards anything melodic :P
Christopher Owens wrote:
J.A.K wrote: just as i suspected.
JK AINT got any of these howlers.
Liar.
What about your Milli Vanilli collection?
played frisbees on the field with them.
when they got smashed up. went inside and brought the Aeorsmith ones out as well.
I have
- The Clash – Cut The Crap
- The Cranberries – To The Faithful Departed
Well, the first has one decent song on it ('this is england') and a half decent one ('we are the clash', ironic because really they weren't, not without Mick Jones). The other one...er...well...it was only £2
J.A.K wrote:
Liar. You were in a tribute band to them. What about those pictures you showed me?
WTF, Geri Halliwell's solo albums are great (at least the first two).
And Shanya Twain's Come On Over is superb: all the songs are hits.
Steve Campbell wrote: Let me be frank is the only thing westlife ever done that doesn't turn my stomach...I can ignore the little fudgepackers and listen to the classic bigband horn sound.
|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: WTF, Geri Halliwell's solo albums are great (at least the first two).
And Shanya Twain's Come On Over is superb: all the songs are hits.
AgentWood wrote: i own none of these, but i wish i had shatner's album.
I have shatners album somewhere. I'll send it to you at some point. remind me!
Snoopy wrote: Beck - Midnight Vultures
I wondered about that one myself. I think it fits well with the 80's nostalgia thing these days.
Q said he isn't Prince
I Have:
- Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
- The Clash – Cut The Crap
- The Rolling Stones – Dirty Work
- Chris Rea – The Road To Hell Pt2
- Oasis – Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants
- Ozzy Osbourne – Under Cover
Snoopy wrote: Beck - Midnight Vultures
oh, yeah. i do have that one. i quite like it, too.
Christopher Owens wrote:
Super Ally wrote:
Agree but their version was appalling!
Super Ally wrote: I think I put White Lines or The Message in my 'Back To Mine' post
That was a far better and more polished performance than their appearance on The Word...
...Not quite sure about LeBon's continual 'c'mon y'all' though
Christopher Owens wrote:
State of Love and Trust wrote:
- Chris Rea – The Road To Hell Pt2
My da has Chris Rea - The Road to Hell which I think was released towards the end of the 80's. When was The Road to Hell Part 2 released.
Woah, Maja, not so fast!
Let me tell you how the business began. Give a listen to her "Man, I Still Feel Like A Woman!"
Snoopy wrote:
My da has Chris Rea - The Road to Hell which I think was released towards the end of the 80's. When was The Road to Hell Part 2 released.
Snoopy wrote:
Christopher Owens wrote:
State of Love and Trust wrote:
- Chris Rea – The Road To Hell Pt2
My da has Chris Rea - The Road to Hell which I think was released towards the end of the 80's. When was The Road to Hell Part 2 released.
The Road To Hell wasn't bad, a tirade against Thatcher and Conservatism is always a plus in my book, right kids!
Uncle Liam wrote:
AgentWood wrote: i own none of these, but i wish i had shatner's album.
I have shatners album somewhere. I'll send it to you at some point. remind me!
ta, sugarbuns.
ChrissMari wrote:
Dylan and the Dead isn't a bad album, it just shows the bias of this magazine towards anything melodic :P
patrick stewart appreciation society wrote: I bet when all these albums came out Q gave them 4 stars fickle bastards
Probably. Gave Be Here Now 5 stars. Nowadays it gets 2.
Christopher Owens wrote:
patrick stewart appreciation society wrote: I bet when all these albums came out Q gave them 4 stars fickle bastards
Probably. Gave Be Here Now 5 stars. Nowadays it gets 2.
how times change eh
And I also remember them praising Limp Bizkit as a great modern rock album.
Surprised Andrew WK didn't end up there. Another album they liked initially.
patrick stewart appreciation society wrote: I'm shocked by the incclusion of Wacko Jacko, invincible is pretty good
I don't have any of them, but I can't believe there wasn't a spot to add some Johnny Hates Jazz.
|| | ||| 6217|| 8 || 3 wrote: WTF, Geri Halliwell's solo albums are great (at least the first two).
And Shanya Twain's Come On Over is superb: all the songs are hits.
Snoopy wrote: Beck - Midnight Vultures
It's the only album on the list that I have. It's not that bad.
Christopher Owens wrote:
patrick stewart appreciation society wrote: I bet when all these albums came out Q gave them 4 stars fickle bastards
Probably. Gave Be Here Now 5 stars. Nowadays it gets 2.
In fairness, anyone who has actually listened to Be Here Now should realise that it is pretty good. Fair enough, theres some crap on there, but some great Oasis tunes as well Fade-In Out, Magic Pie, D' You Know What I Mean etc etc.
Even Standing on the shoulders of giants isnt that bad. Where Did It All Go Wrong? Gas Panic! Sunday Morning Call... and Go Let It Out is pretty awesome live.
yes, but Noel also reckons that Dont Believe The Truth is the best thing they have done since Morning Glory.
And that Liam is a good songwriter.
Christopher Owens wrote:
State of Love and Trust wrote:
- Chris Rea – The Road To Hell Pt2
Agreed. 
if everyone had discovered decent music in 1979, like me, people wouldn't have this problem.
Uncle Liam wrote: yes, but Noel also reckons that Dont Believe The Truth is the best thing they have done since Morning Glory.
Not true then?
I thought a few songs off it were good: Lyla, Turn Up The Sun, Importance...
Compared to:
Dont Look Back In Anger, Morning Glory, Some Might Say...?
Or stuff of Masterplan, like Acquiesce, Underneath The Sky and erm... Masterplan.
Yes, DBTT is alright. Its nothing special, and by god did lyla get irritating quickly.
Fair enough.
Not a huge Oasis fan. The only album I can listen to fully is Definetly Maybe.
What's the Story... had a few good tracks on it, but nothing special, IMO.
Didn't bother with them afterwards.
Have all the Oasis albums. This is my list of what I prefer 1-6. To be honest I like all of them, bar number 6. 4 and 5 will swap places sometimes.
- Whats the Story (Morning Glory)
- Definitely Maybe
- Don't Believe the Truth
- Heathen Chemistry
- Be Here Now
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
The Masterplan is also excellent but its not really a proper album so I didn't include it.
If I'm correct, Mozza was giving Q magazine a lot of abuse at the Move Festival.
Perhaps they don't want to start him? 
Can I just point out that I don't really own Road To Hell. It was in a batch of CDs I brought over here from my dad's house.
State of Love and Trust wrote: Can I just point out that I don't really own Road To Hell. It was in a batch of CDs I brought over here from my dad's house.
Yeah yeah yeah.
That's what they all say!!!!
Christopher Owens wrote: If I'm correct, Mozza was giving Q magazine a lot of abuse at the Move Festival.
Perhaps they don't want to start him?
The quote was something like this:
"Now, if any of you read Q Magazine, and I really dont recommend it, you might think that modern music is absolutely crap"
Probably a response to Q giving Quarry 2 out of 5.
State of Love and Trust wrote: Can I just point out that I don't really own Road To Hell. It was in a batch of CDs I brought over here from my dad's house.
You are on the ROAD TO RUIN
I've got Fischerspooner and, probably like everyone else who ever bought it, bought it hoping that every other track would sound like 'Emerge'. They don't.
In fairness, the inclusion of 'Emerge' does stop it being completely shite though.
Uncle Liam wrote: Probably a response to Q giving Quarry 2 out of 5.
I think he gave Q some well deserved stick onstage when I saw him towards the end of the YATQ tour as well. The two star rating for YATQ was unforgivable as it is an album with some of his best material.
Q used to be a good mag in the mid to late nineties but since about 2001 they've selected their little clique of bands who in their eyes can do no wrong (U2, Radiohead, Coldplay) and given them the choice coverage. All Bono has to do is say he likes Shreddies for breakfast and there's a four page spread on it. I notice from recent issues they've added a Heat magazine-esque "gossip" section, a new but not entirely unexpected low for them.
All the best journos who were with Q during it's pre-2000 golden period have moved over to mags like Mojo and Uncut which is all I read from the music press these days. The latest issue of Uncut with Mozzer on the cover is really very good and there are no stupid lists in it trying to tell you what's the best or worst. Q is a wankstain of a publication in my humble opinion.
Uncut and Mojo are excellent though.
Super Ally wrote: The Duran Duran effort was a total shocker especially White Lines, they performed it live on The Word too as I recall.
Glad to say I don't own any of the worst 50 although I probably don't have any of the top 50 either...
Hey I enjoyed White Lines.. it charted on the Top 10 here.
And I didn't know the original.
I don't agree on those:
- The Cranberries – To The Faithful Departed
- Ace Of Bass – The Sign
- Milli Vanilli – All Or Nothing
That Cranberries album is pretty good, I enjoyed the Ace of Base album a lot, and as for Milli Vanelli, the only "problem" is the fake models, but the music was pretty good.
Spotnick wrote:
Super Ally wrote: The Duran Duran effort was a total shocker especially White Lines, they performed it live on The Word too as I recall.
Glad to say I don't own any of the worst 50 although I probably don't have any of the top 50 either...
Hey I enjoyed White Lines.. it charted on the Top 10 here.
And I didn't know the original.
Have a look at the following courtesy of Christopher Owens, certainly a better performance from the one I saw...
http://www3.youtube.com/watch?v=6BOVbIRh3MI&search=grandmaster%20flash
Spotnick wrote: as for Milli Vanelli, the only "problem" is the fake models, but the music was pretty good.
The problem I have with any of these "50 worst" or "100 worst ever" is that they fail to account for one fact and one fact alone...
The possibility that Aerosmith could technically still put out a new album :D
Then the lists would look pretty silly :p
Taboo # 7 wrote: The problem I have with any of these "50 worst" or "100 worst ever" is that they fail to account for one fact and one fact alone...
The possibility that Aerosmith could technically still put out a new album :D
Someone on another messageboard wrote:
Kula Shaker's second album definitely doesn't deserve to be in there, it's a cracking wee album with songs such as Mystical Machine Gun and the glorious Shower Your Love
Hmmm..........
Snorrimon wrote: Feel the smugness people - this puffin owns none of the above...
So why did you offer me that copy of Dylan and the Dead?
Christopher Owens wrote:
Snorrimon wrote: Feel the smugness people - this puffin owns none of the above...
So why did you offer me that copy of Dylan and the Dead?
You took it - hence I don't own it any more... :)
Snorri xxx
Christopher Owens wrote: Erm, no I didn't. I hate Dylan, so why should I have it?
T'was a joke... Although I do own several Dylan albums, D & The Dead is shite and I do not and have not ever owned it... Crap cover as well...
Snorri (& The Dead) xxx
I only own 2
Limp bizcuits Oasis
in the top 50 there should be all the Beatles albums and something by Phil Collins
Al Jarvis wrote: I've got Fischerspooner and, probably like everyone else who ever bought it, bought it hoping that every other track would sound like 'Emerge'. They don't.
In fairness, the inclusion of 'Emerge' does stop it being completely shite though.
was that on there? i must have missed it. i've got that CD and i really like it--not just for emerge, either.
I understand that Q is a British music magazine, but I'm surprised that Limp Bizkit, Alanis Morissette, and Ace of Base made the list. How do the Brits understand good music when the musical tastes in America are so different?
[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: I understand that Q is a British music magazine, but I'm surprised that Limp Bizkit, Alanis Morissette, and Ace of Base made the list. How do the Brits understand good music when the musical tastes in America are so different?
why are you surprised they made the list? they're all shite!
[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: I understand that Q is a British music magazine, but I'm surprised that Limp Bizkit, Alanis Morissette, and Ace of Base made the list. How do the Brits understand good music when the musical tastes in America are so different?
How many of the shifty-fifty do you own then, Cozzie?
Snorri xxx
AgentWood wrote:
[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: I understand that Q is a British music magazine, but I'm surprised that Limp Bizkit, Alanis Morissette, and Ace of Base made the list. How do the Brits understand good music when the musical tastes in America are so different?
why are you surprised they made the list? they're all shite!
Absolutely! Limp Bizkit is the sort of band invented precisely for 'worst ever' lists 
definitely not the sort of band I'd associate "good music" with and I don't think you need to be exclusively British to appreciate that
[brown]alistair[/brown] wrote:
AgentWood wrote:
[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: I understand that Q is a British music magazine, but I'm surprised that Limp Bizkit, Alanis Morissette, and Ace of Base made the list. How do the Brits understand good music when the musical tastes in America are so different?
why are you surprised they made the list? they're all shite!
Absolutely! Limp Bizkit is the sort of band invented precisely for 'worst ever' lists
fred durst. now there's someone who should be held at guantanamo bay without the right of due process.
Snorrimon wrote:
[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: I understand that Q is a British music magazine, but I'm surprised that Limp Bizkit, Alanis Morissette, and Ace of Base made the list. How do the Brits understand good music when the musical tastes in America are so different?
How many of the shifty-fifty do you own then, Cozzie?
Snorri xxx
None (yes, none), but the artists that I've mentioned got a lot of airplay from where I live.
AgentWood wrote: fred durst. now there's someone who should be held at guantanamo bay without the right of due process.
He's an arse... That bloody "rollin" video was never off the music channels in 2001ish. Corporate meathead rock = no redeeming features.
I think it's fantastic they've disappeared without a trace, hope they never resurface
A year ago, they released an album with no publicity (decided by Fred Durst) and it sold about four copies. Two of which were bought by Fred's mum.
[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: None (yes, none), but the artists that I've mentioned got a lot of airplay from where I live.
All the various manufactured-via-TV-audition "bands" get alot of airplay where I live but they're still all rubbish. Are you saying your surprised some bands ended up on the worst list because they get airplay?
All sorts of crap music gets airplay!
Christopher Owens wrote: A year ago, they released an album with no publicity (decided by Fred Durst) and it sold about four copies. Two of which were bought by Fred's mum.
That makes me very happy :D
The other two copies were probably promos given away free
Miss Disco wrote: MD doesn't have any of those!
Liar. I remember you trying to give me the Robson & Jerome album.
NOOLigan wrote: i have none of those.
where is samantha fox's touch me?
Top choice haha
You all forgot Sabrina
But I guess it's beyond their understanding of "music".
I would add Kraftwerk's Electric Cafe. Unlistenable crap. Side B offers something, but still so pitifully pale in compasrison what had been expected and what was around.
AgentWood wrote:
NOOLigan wrote: i have none of those.
where is samantha fox's touch me?
i have the 7".
i have it on a comp.
Only have the Neil Young album, it's a good one, but not quite Rust Never Sleeps. Great enough to be part of his record company's suit against Neil for making records that "weren't like Neil Young".
I never did buy Cut The Crap though. This Is England is a great song.
Only one I have is Cut the Crap. Dirty Little Punk is a good tune. Great lyrics too. "When dad broke the tv screen I understood what he had to say.."
oh dear I forgot Duran Duran ruining "White Lines"
esp ironic since they did a lot of blow back in the day I am sure....
and Samantha Fox...all the guy friends kjust liked her cause of the poster of her barely clothed....
[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote:
Snorrimon wrote:
[magenta]cozmonite61[/magenta] wrote: I understand that Q is a British music magazine, but I'm surprised that Limp Bizkit, Alanis Morissette, and Ace of Base made the list. How do the Brits understand good music when the musical tastes in America are so different?
How many of the shifty-fifty do you own then, Cozzie?
Snorri xxx
None (yes, none), but the artists that I've mentioned got a lot of airplay from where I live.
I actually thought that the Alanis album wasn't that bad, not going to win any awards but definately listenable. I actually pop it in from time to time. . .what's that say about me?
JHC
Totally agree about Star Wards Cristmas album. Do they even have Christmas where thet are from (the Empire)?
Is that the same snotty nosed cow who models?Yup! She wrote a book and that was pants too (although i would imagine she had a ghost writer and it was still shit!)
Stupid bitch, i hate her.
[pink]Missy Jem[/pink] wrote: Yup! She wrote a book and that was pants too (although i would imagine she had a ghost writer and it was still shit!)
Stupid bitch, i hate her.
Good thing is she might be getting sent down for her kung fu antics
patrick stewart appreciation society wrote:
[pink]Missy Jem[/pink] wrote: Yup! She wrote a book and that was pants too (although i would imagine she had a ghost writer and it was still shit!)
Stupid bitch, i hate her.
Good thing is she might be getting sent down for her kung fu antics
Good, let's hope the bitch is taught a lesson.
NObabe wrote:
Spotnick wrote: as for Milli Vanelli, the only "problem" is the fake models, but the music was pretty good.
In a sense that it doesn't diserve to be on that list... not that I bought it !
Generic wrote: I own THREE of them...but I ain't saying which ones...
Ashame to say you own Vanilla Ice?
I have 2 of them... and I can say it's the Cranberries and *cough* Ace of Base.
Spotnick i thought you were too cool for school. You've ruined it now![pink]Missy Jem[/pink] wrote: I hope she gets bullied in Prison, might teach her to treat her staff a little better.
