Worst album you still own

I don't own it, but if it were available on CD (or Itunes), I, too, would own When the Rain Begins to Fall. Ragu, if you hadn't mentioned it, I would never have admitted it.

Like Mizzou, I've sold off most of my embarrassments, although since all I could get for Spin Doctors' Pocket Full of Kryptonite was 50 cents, I still have it.

My collection currently also includes the following gems:

-Billy Idol - Charmed Life
-Billy Idol - Vital Idol (includes astonishingly embarrassing remixes!)
-Air Supply's Greatest Hits (bought for me by a friend as a joke, but somehow never thrown out)
-Stuttering John's first album (so far SportsJournalists.com has accounted for 2 of the 1,000 copies sold)

and...an unopened cassette of what has to be Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs' only album. Yes, Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington fancied himself a singer.

 

Citied in several album-rating anthologies as the worst album ever released.

 

I purchased two Wham! CDs and still have them. I'm not proud.

 

They weren't handsome enough and the market went bad boy ... from foursome's in sweaters to R.Kelly.

 

You guys aren't even trying hard.

I have the Slim Whitman Christmas Album. No, I'm not making that up.

 

Hark The Herald Angels Yodel?

 

I don't know why, but that response has me cracking up at my desk.

 

Hey, someone gave me those Poco albums. It's not like I bought them myself.

 

But it opened the door for boy bands ... white boys, that is.

 

Slow ride?

 

Lester Bangs loved it, though.

 

I've been mulling this one over all day. When I was the reviews editor of a small music mag back in 1987-88 I used to get tons of albums. Most of them were shit (but we reviewed them so the stuff would keep coming) and I gassed those so that doesn't count.

Of the ones I bought, I'd have to say 78 In The Shade, an awful last gasp from the Small Faces, and I'm pretty sure I have a copy of the Knack's second album, ....But The Little Girls Understand, that received the most vicious review I ever read in Rolling Stone from Dave Marsh.