Lmaoooo it does! 😂

I think Bowie was either being nice to Lou or intentionally obtuse.

I'm sorry, I think this is the most horrible thing I've ever heard other than maybe Captain Beefheart. No need to find some deep artistic meaning, it's just very very bad, that is all. No disrespect intended.. except for them that is, definitely for them ; )

@@ttmilbr I wouldn't claim that the Shaggs' music has "deep artistic meaning". It is artless in the strict sense of the word. All the same, I think it has an intrinsic value that does not depend on treating it with irony, pretentiousness, or pity.

@@ttmilbr Agreed.

@@Sapphire.solstice Fault has nothing to do with it. it's an unlistenable experience. Although I actually got through it. The one bearable spot: It's Halloween!!! Even Dracula will be there! YouK now I gotta love that part.

Omg lmao. Sure, whatever mental gymnastics you need to do to convince yourself that they’re somehow not shit.

They aren't ALL terrible. Liz's Funstyle is bad for her but not terrible compared to many albums.

They are the best for sure.

I know I’m in the minority on Ummagumma. - Joe

@@TastesLikeMusic It's alright. You still have many redeeming musical qualities. For one, you're not enamored by Sonic Youth, and you always pay respects to Sir Elton. For that, I salute you, sir!

I agree about Ummagumma. Many Floyd fans consider it to be a pretty decent record. It was experimental and had some standout tracks. It seemed like a necessary step towards the direction they were headed in. As for the live stuff, I think they wanted to show that they were getting past Sid's recent sacking. It sounds a bit dated but I think the visceral energy of Gilmour's performance proves that they were going to be fine. I was kind of surprised that this album made the list of baddies. It certainly is not my least favorite Pink Floyd record!

@@kenm.3512 Mine either! And well said. I was a bit bemused this album was tapped for worst album ever category. Sure, it's an esoteric, challenging record that certainly defies conventionality, but that alone shouldn't slate it for the chopping block. I could effortlessly compile a whole slew of albums that would rank far worse than Ummagumma! But each to his/her own, of course.

The Eagles hzve been a corporate country rock monstrosity since birth. They shouldnt even be allowed in the same room as Floyd !

No easy task.

Junior Dad is actually good, and maybe the best track of those in the 'tournament' but an old bloke reciting smut isn't a great idea.

I am the table!

Like a girl, like a girl

This tournament led me to listen to all of FUNSTYLE last night, songs from some other derided Liz Phair albums, and read about Liz Phair's insane career trajectory for two hours last night and i couldn't be more pleased.

@@davidbeckman7925 And your findings...?

@@chrisdelisle3954 thx for asking! 1. i want to dig deep and listen to every Liz Phair album start to finish at least once, just to get perspective and enjoy some interesting if inconsistent tunes. 2. Sidenote: I was a pretty big fan of EXILE back when it came out, bought WHIPSMART but admittedly lost interest. 3. I agree FUNSTYLE is **terrible** but it's fascinating in its badness IMO so I want to listen again. 4. Liz Phair's career is an incredible story worth reading about, and if FUNSTYLE is indeed a big F.U. to everybody, that's kind of awesome imo. I think I gotta root for Liz Phair and I hope she does keep creating.

@@davidbeckman7925 One of the most fascinating things about her career is that so many of her best songs were NOT released on the albums that she released. Check out the following songs from her: "Jeremy Engle," "Down," "Bars of The Bed," "Stuck On An Island," and "Fine Again," for example. "Jeremy Engle" and "Fine Again" were released on a download-only digital copy (actually called "comeandgetit") when her self-titled album came out. Those were tracks that were turned down by execs and songs like "Extraordinary," "Rock Me" and "Why Can't I" were recorded instead. "Down" was also from those sessions, I believe. I never heard the story as to why she didn't release it - it's also got a pretty cool video you should check out. "Bars of the Bed" (among several other outtakes) was recorded during the "whitechocolatespaceegg" sessions. I liked the eventual release, but that song, "Bloodkeeper," "Freak Of Nature," "White Bird of Texas," and "Hurricane Cindy," among others, are just fantastic songs. The album after her self-titled, called "Somebody's Miracle," could have been another big hit album for her but somebody decided to release "Everything To Me" as the first single. It was NOT a good idea. She should have released "Count On My Love" and "Giving It All To You" as the first two singles. Those two songs are catchy as hell. I especially like "The Wind And The Mountain" from that record. The song would have been much better served if it were recorded by, I don't know, the Allman Brothers or Warren Haynes or some other jam band, I think. As you can tell, I'm a fan. I think "Guyville" is one of the absolute greatest albums ever released. Good luck discovering her music.

@@davidbeckman7925 Furthermore, she actually IS still creating music. She was supposed to release an album last year called "Soberish" and go out on tour with Alanis Morrissette. Then the pandemic hit. Her first single, "Good Side" was...fair-to-middling, but I listened to her perform the title track on some Zoom video and it was excellent.

Nothing is worse than that repulican boot licking creep Mike Love milking a once historically good genius pop band

Said it before - Pitchfork can be a usual reverse barometer. Several of my favorites score less than a 5/10 from them.

@@NaughtyVampireGod yeah...I think it's down to their poor selection of reviewers partly....they should put more thought into who reviews what based on preferences so fans of that style of music get a reliable barometer on quality

@@threestringsomg Hey. I've read reviews from pitchfork where the music was hardly discussed at all.

Shows what a difference a drummer that can keep time makes.

Is that a secret signal that we’re doing the John Tesh discography soon? - Joe

I reckon that crack was lamer than a Billy Joel album.

So somewhere between good and very good. I’ll take it. - Joe

@@TastesLikeMusic You're right, though. The stuff that's being pulled at the moment to suppress voters in Georgia etc is a flippin' disgrace.

It’s the worst.

@@TastesLikeMusic Not. Even. Close.

@@TastesLikeMusic While I enjoy your rapport, this is just one of the many reasons I can never take Listography seriously.

@@jukeboxcowboy In their defense, these things are 100% subjective personal preferences. I'm way outside the mainstream on plenty of things so I have no problem when people have different opinions. That said, I truly don't understand the hate for Ummagumma.

I can see liking it as a curio, but as an actual release for a band that had already made some timeless albums and would go on to make some of the best music ever put on tape, this is a monstrosity of overindulgent tripe. However, if you take this competition seriously, then you probably need to reevaluate your own life and learn to relax and have fun. - Joe

We will probably do this again next year with this years winner attempting to go back to back against 31 different albums. There’s no shortage of badness. -Jason

i totally agree . i dont know if comparing it to a car crash you cant look away from is fair but something about it i find so endearing .

Right? The more I listened to the Corey album the more I actually liked it! And not in some ironic, so bad it's good way. Some of the songs are actually pretty darn creative, colorful, and catchy... And that album cover? Yee-hahh! You go for it, Corey! I just bought a copy from Discogs. It was just too dang irresistible. Looks like this ol' Jukebox Cowboy is angelic 2 the core!

@@jukeboxcowboy LOL , well i will agree there are some very catchy songs on the album and more often than not entertaining and funny , whether intentionally or not .

@@chrissirhc7337 It seems like a good barometer of if the listener is a fun person or not. Notice how folks can't help but break out into smiles as they discuss the record. There's something to that. I reckon it'll be fun to put on at a party.

I didn't really find the K-fed album all that bad. It just sounded like a generic hip-hop album. But it wasn't as spectacularly bad as I imagined. Shaq's rap albums from the 90s were worse.

Tuff sled

Kinda agree! But the Corey was slightly worse. I think I would have voted BB against almost anyone else though. - Joe

We shall reveal tomorrow morning on GMA. And we’ll put it on Twitter and Facebook at some point. I’d tell you, but I forget. Next week is the 00s recap. - Joe

Then King Crimson, who won the poll. - Joe

@@TastesLikeMusic Thank you, Joe.

also, re: your older audience being against ajr, among my group of younger music enjoying friends ajr are kinda one of the name recognition terrible groups. we haven't gotten to it yet but the click is on our bracket as well.. ill update you when we do get to it

yes , it is entertaining and i genuinely enjoy listening to the album ...although to do so you kinda hafta suspend any notion of artistic credibility , but its corey feldman we're talking about here , so that shouldnt be too hard.

That was a tough draw for Summer in Paradise. I agree it deserved to stay in longer. - Joe

I can’t imagine she’ll win this matchup. - Joe

@@TastesLikeMusic Agreed. The Feldman is 5th Dimension bad.

@@TastesLikeMusic You might be right but don't discount the ' they should know better' argument you used on the Sonic Youth video. It's a novelty album by an actor vs a singer-songwriter with 20 years and multiple albums in her catalogue at that point. If people take that into consideration the vote could be close

That's the direction I ended up leaning as well. The worst parts of Funstyle are epically bad but the Feldman record is just awful through-and-through, start-to-finish top-to-bottom, everything about it.

Agreed.

The live version of Careful with that Axe Eugene alone makes Ummagumma a half decent album. The worst Pink Floyd album is A Momentary Lapse of Reason - by a mile!

The Final Turd should have been in this contsest, not Ummagumma.

He really was. People don’t seem to take Duran Duran seriously, which is ridiculous. They were great. - Joe

Yes, the bass line on "Rio" is nuts.

Get a new shtick, please. - Joe

@@miketomlin6040 Duran Duran is not a boy band. Nsync, backstreet boys, those are boy bands. Just because you don't like Duran Duran music doesn't mean you have to trash them. Get a life.

@@miketomlin6040 I don't mind boy bands if they're talented musicians like the Beatles or Duran Duran. The bands I mentioned with no talent are the ones I don't like.

Yeah, that trainwreck should’ve been on the list!

Maybe it's me but I get the sense that Liz Phair's album is intentionally bad, an act of artistic suicide and a kiss off to the record industry that she pretty much abandoned anyway. Many of the songs appear to be parodies of the pop music of the time, which was and still is pretty lousy. I don't know much about her but I do vaguely recall she made alot of people uncomfortable with her debut album, which was seen as vulgar. Maybe this is the other side of the same coin. I don't know. Has she made another album? Am I completely off base here? Isn't this her version of Spinal Tap?

@@johnbosco3371 That's a good point, but that just leads you back to the argument about whether or not the "artistic intent" matters to your listening experience. If your listening experience sucks then does it really matter if it was intentional or not?

@@AbbeyRoadkill1 True. It's a deeply annoying listen regardless of intent. Awful junk.

Deserving or not I think that one has a real shot at winning. Greatly hated around these parts.

Grantchester Meadows and The Narrow Way pt 3 are two of Pink Floyd's best tracks ever. I don't know what the heck these guys are thinking.

To be fair to the Listography guys they aren't big Floyd fans. Ummagumma would leave a more casual listener non plussed. Most Pink Floyd fans would not consider Ummagumma anything like Floyd's worst album. The corporate 80s rock they made post Waters is the true disaster :( .

Spot on

Nice Donaghy reference. - Joe

I was just going to note that Blue Eyes is far from the worst cover ever, nice example.

The Beatles wrote "If You've Got Trouble" so even the all-time greats are capable of making some pretty bad stuff. At least The Beatles had the sense not to put "If You've Got Trouble" on one of their actual albums.

The weird thing is most of that Liz Phair album is pretty normal but there's like 4 memorably bad songs that overshadow everything.

I agree with the idea that once an album has been finished and released to the public the artist's opinion is just another opinion. Whatever the intent was kind of doesn't matter anymore, it's all in the eyes (or ears) of the listener.

"Context is everything."

I don’t care for it, either. But I don’t think it’s on Limp Bizkit’s level. - Joe

@@TastesLikeMusic Axl going heyyy! hey hey heyy haunts my dreams

It's not as bad as their cover of "Sympathy for the Devil".

We tried. -Jason

I agree. I think Nickelback's worst crime is just being bland, corporate rock. I don't like it, but it's probably not the worst thing I've ever heard. That Blondie album is actively terrible.

@@edgustafson I'm of the mind that no music artist deserves hate... but some do deserve apathy, like Nickelback.

I agree in theory but in reality I hate so many. -Jason

@@TastesLikeMusic I thought Joe was the resident hater? He must be rubbing off on you.

I love The Rising

I’d say it’s closer than people think. People give Blondie points because they had some good albums in the 70s and they’re a “cool” band. - Joe

In reality, this whole list is flawed in a similar way. There are far worse albums than any of these, but they rightfully don't get distribution and are unknown to most. The idea that Nickelback is anywhere near this list is more elitism and "haterism" than real evaluation. It's a slickly produced formulaic rock record, nothing more or less.

It’s not literally the worst albums ever. It’s the worst popular albums. There obviously has to be some kind of litmus test. Don’t overthink this. - Joe

@@TastesLikeMusic Some of these hardly qualify as popular though. Corey Feldman? KFed? Their inclusion is more of a punchline.

@@kitoyobeni1 these are pretty popular albums. And certainly popular people. But, it's not an exact science - Kramzer

I find it kind of fascinating

please go ahead and do so .....

For sure there are many albums that are worse, but to say “nothing wrong?” There’s definitely a few things wrong. -Jason

I like both those albums OK lol

Mitch, I hope you don’t really believe that. - Joe

@@TastesLikeMusic from my brief excursion into your you tube channel i would have no choice but believe that. convince me otherwise. you do know that it was a lou reed and metallica record and not the other way around right?

The Shaggs were a group of sisters being forced to play music by their insane father. I’m not sure that qualifies as an “art project.” That said, I can still recognize and appreciate its artistic merits. The fact that it can generate this type of debate says a lot. Without a doubt, it’s an interesting artifact. But it is possible to find something artistically interesting and simultaneously think it’s a terrible piece of music. -Jason

@@malco49 You just nailed my favorite moments of this channel. It's amusing to watch these mainstream guys dip their toes into the deep end of the pool only to retract in horror. Fortunately, they are clearly music lovers, and are likely to grow with experience.

Maybe in another 35 years if I listen real hard my tastes will become as highly evolved as yours 🙏🏻

How can you say that and with the next breath praise GVF! - Joe

@@TastesLikeMusic because I'm not hung up on GVF like some people of course 🤭🤪

Just because The Beach Boys and Bon Jovi may have more talent doesn't mean they should get credit for it when their albums blow.

@@179rich If you actually think Cory Feldman has better music than the Beachboys summer in Paradise then we can't help you there albums may stink but are the other albums any better are the musicians any better ? considering there more known for being actors? at least with both BonJovi and the Beachboys they have some decent guitar playing with Kevin and cory nothing a 1 star album?

I just can't. The Boston album, however terrible, is still music. The Shaggs simply has no right to exist with any kind of renown.

Its because their music is so derivative and unoriginal.

We have very different ideas of what amazing production is then. Everything I hate about modern rock production can be found on this nickelback album. The drums all sound like they’re replaced by samples. Every note on the whole record is quantized. The guitar tones sound like they’re from a modeling amp, and maybe just using a pod and not an amp at all. Pitch corrected vocals. None of it is actually real.

Nickel back sucks, no doubt. But they get too much hatred. Bands like Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, Creed, and to a lesser extent, Theory of a Deadman are worse IMO.

That’s a losing battle, my friend. - Joe

@@TastesLikeMusic Yep. I bought the Boston album right when it came out and was baffled. Say what you will about Walk On and Corporate America, they at least sound like finished products. Life, Love, and Hope feels like Tom Scholtz goofed off for eleven years and then threw something together a month before the album was due.

@@TastesLikeMusic I know it's not Boston's best album but are the stooges any better? yes it's great being friends with you 3. now if you said Kiss Dynasty or Boston's album then your right. but i'm not losing this one Boston is better than the stooges.

@@neesi1570 Why do you think the Stooges is better than Boston this album? I would say that Tom Scholtz is better than anybody in the Stooges. If you were comparing Def Leppard Anderalize to this Boston than you have a point but being it's the stooges Boston's better.